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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.

As Illinois considers ways to achieve its goal of relying entirely on clean energy by 2050, one technology that has courted controversy is carbon capture.

A striking decline in teen mental health has coincided with the rise of smartphones and social media. Is social media causing the mental health challenges? Finally, research can answer that question.

Judge Scott Millikan of the 22nd Circuit said the hearing was an attempt to bring order to the circuit. The prosecutor’s office has been plagued by recent staff turnover, with reports saying there are fewer than five attorneys handling serious felony cases.

The nonprofit audio service, which serves the area’s blind and visually impaired, is not using its Belleville facility until a damaged tower and office are cleaned up.

Facing budget threats and efforts to criminalize books, Missouri librarians are fighting back.

The city’s top fiscal policy board, Estimate and Apportionment, will take public comment on the budget on Friday, then vote Monday on whether to send it to aldermen. They will have until July 1 to make changes, though any spending increases in one area must be balanced out by cuts in another.

A woman from Montrose, Missouri, with Down syndrome struggled to get treatment for a traumatic brain injury because doctors wouldn't look past her condition. Many adults with Down syndrome face similar barriers.