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St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine launched a mobile pediatric diabetes bus for students in north St. Louis County to learn about the illness and how to manage it. The Healthy Kids Express Diabetes mobile unit will provide checkups, education about disease prevention and nutrition information to those in areas with high rates of diabetes and childhood obesity.

Both parties tout increased spending in the state budget on roads and education as major successes.

The Senate had been moving at a glacial pace all week, imperiling major pieces of legislation for the GOP majority.

Prosecutors, public defenders and others review the damage caused by the staffing crisis in the circuit attorney’s office and discuss how to move on after Kim Gardner leaves.

Gov. Mike Parson will appoint the successor to St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who is resigning on June 1.

In the group’s first public address since the indictment, African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela said during a press conference at the organization’s St. Petersburg, Florida, office, that the indictment is an attack on free speech rights under the First Amendment.

Lawmakers spent less than an hour discussing both bills, with Republicans voting to end debate twice.

The company’s self-declared strategy is to buy single-family rental properties around the region. A Midwest Newsroom investigation uncovered neglect, aggressive evictions and rising rents where VineBrook moves in — mostly non-white neighborhoods.

Between recreational and medical marijuana, Missouri hit $350 million in sales in the first three months since the state began allowing dispensaries to sale legal weed. Yet cannabis business owners say those numbers could be even higher since cultivators and manufacturers aren’t working at max capacity.

Missouri's attorney general said he wants to make sure Gardner leaves before dropping the case.

Friction between the House and the Senate delayed some major policy priorities until the final five days of session last week.

State legislatures, including Missouri's, are considering a wave of bills that would undermine local control on culture wars issues from education and policing to environmental policy.