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A top investor thinks the owner of newspapers like St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Omaha World-Herald are entering a difficult business climate with advertising sales continuing their decline.

Kansas City has the only police department in Missouri that's under state control. Although voters statewide raised how much of the city's budget must be spent on the KCPD, activists say local opposition to Amendment 4 created an opportunity to put policing decisions back in the city's hands.

The historical society in Belleville, Illinois, and other preservationists are discouraged by the city’s demolition of neglected landmark homes and other buildings.

State Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin will be responsible for deciding which bills get Senate floor time — and bridging divisions within her caucus.

Ousted after Ferguson, Bob McCulloch's most lasting legacy may be his insistence on the death penalty.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the number of abortions performed in Illinois has gone up 28%, even as numbers decreased nationwide.

For decades, Mathews provided St. Louis children with much more than baseball fields.

Republicans scored big wins from Eric Schmitt in the U.S. Senate contest and Scott Fitzpatrick in the auditor’s race, but Democrats came out on top in Missouri’s only competitive state Senate contest and gained in the House.

Budzinski worked as an aide to Governor JB Pritzker and President Joe Biden, but this was her first time running for political office.

Two other issues on the ballot passed, including a measure creating a separate Missouri Department of the National Guard and one that forces Kansas City to increase funding for its police department. Two measures failed: one giving the treasury greater leeway in investing and the other prompting the state to hold a constitutional convention.

The Republican representing Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District heads back to Washington for a sixth term.

Democratic incumbent Sam Page beat his Republican challenger Mark Mantovani.