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Supreme Court keeps a Missouri law on hold that bars police from enforcing federal gun laws

By Associated Press

The 2019 law was ruled unconstitutional by a district judge but allowed to remain in effect. A federal appeals court then blocked enforcement while the state appeals the district court ruling.

With new newspaper and new businesses, Afghan refugees finding new community in Missouri

By Gabrielle Hays

While more than 1.6 million Afghans have fled the country since 2021, the total number in neighboring countries is 8.2 million, underscoring the humanitarian crisis for one of the largest displaced groups in the world. Some now call St. Louis…

Judge denies request to halt Missouri's gender-affirming medical care ban

By Gabrielle Hays

The new law in Missouri prohibits health care providers from prescribing or administering hormones or puberty-blockers to patients under 18 unless they were already receiving said treatment prior to Aug. 28.

Texas ban on gender-affirming care for trans children blocked, Missouri ban allowed to take effect

By Summer Ballentine, Jim Vertuno, Associated Press

Friday's opposite outcomes underscore the mixed verdict in courtrooms across the U.S. this year over a historic wave of restrictions aimed at transgender youth.

Some Republican officials are trying to keep abortion off of state ballots. Here's how

By Grace Panetta, The 19th

Ohio Republicans added back a previously canceled August special election to make it harder to amend the state constitution ahead of a November vote on abortion rights.

In St. Louis, a neighborhood destroyed, and the children who remember

By Gabrielle Hays

Urban renewal forced nearly 20,000 residents, many Black, out of Mill Creek Valley starting in the late 1950s. The people who lived there want to make sure the community doesn’t forget.

A year after catastrophic flash flooding, recovery for many Missourians is just beginning

By Gabrielle Hays

The historic weather event that hit St. Louis during the early hours of July 26, 2022, was, as the National Weather Service noted, the “most prolific” rainfall the area has seen since record-keeping began in 1874.

When CROWN acts stall in states, cities step in to ban hair discrimination

By Gabrielle Hays

Though more than 20 states across the country have passed CROWN Act legislation in recent years, Missouri has not. Still, cities in the state have enacted their own policy.

Kansas City, Missouri shootings leave at least 3 dead, 5 injured

By Associated Press

At least three people have been found dead, and at least five others are thought to be injured, police in Missouri said while investigating two shootings with multiple victims in the same area of Kansas City early Sunday morning.