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Every five years, Congress has to renew the farm bill — a gigantic piece of legislation that supports and protects food production, natural resources and provides food benefits to low-income families.

The accidents happened Monday morning over a two mile span between Divernon and Farmersville.

Gene Triefenbach, a well known activist in small-town St. Clair County, won a $30,000 settlement with the village of New Athens after Triefenbach's Facebook post was removed.

In Missouri, the average person born in 2021 could expect to live to be 74.6 years old, a whole three years younger than the average age ten years ago. The state’s drop is part of a nationwide decline, though the life expectancy in Missouri is lower than the United States average.

Shannon was known for entertaining listeners with his baseball insight and confounding them with his singular remarks, known as Shannonisms.

Three openly transgender educators in the school district say discrimination has forced them out of their jobs.

An investigation by The Missouri Independent and MuckRock found that despite hundreds of millions in federal pandemic relief money pouring into the state, child care facilities are facing huge staffing shortages and parents are struggling with long waitlists for care.

Amid a national push for reading instruction reform, lawmakers are weighing a bill to give Illinois until 2024 to come up with a new plan.

The measure introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley has a companion version proposed in the House by Rep. Cori Bush.

The Senate’s proposed budget is $4.2 billion more than what the House passed weeks ago. Like in the House, most of the debate in the Senate was spent over an amendment that would have inserted language against diversity, equity and inclusion.

The form had asked people to report concerns about “gender transition intervention” in Missouri. The attorney general’s office says it was hacked and is being investigated.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is calling for residents to help with programs to reduce one of the root causes of crime — poverty.