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Should you get a vasectomy after Roe decision? Doctors explain how it works

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Since Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday and Missouri’s trigger ban outlawed nearly all abortion in the state, interest in vasectomies has been on the rise around Kansas City.

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Editorial: Preventable Amtrak crashes are a national problem and also a serious issue for Chicago

Crashes involving Amtrak trains appear rare. But the reality, especially west of Chicago, is that Amtrak trains themselves are infrequent. They run just three or four times a day to most Midwestern destinations. The great long-distance trains that head out west from Chicago — they have names like the Empire…

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Big Ten Expansion Top 5 Candidates: Possible Schools To Join USC and UCLA

Top 5 schools the Big Ten might go after now that it grabbed USC and UCLA?

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Missouri redistricting commission enacted new state House boundaries on January 19

The House Independent Bipartisan Citizens Commission unanimously approved new state House district boundaries on January 19. Fourteen of the commission’s 20 members were required to approve the plan.

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Missouri Judicial Redistricting Commission enacted new state Senate boundaries in March

Missouri completed its legislative redistricting on March 15 when the state’s Judicial Redistricting Commission filed new state Senate district boundaries with the secretary of state.

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Missouri enacted new congressional boundaries in May

Missouri enacted new congressional district boundaries on May 18 when Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed them into law. According to Rudi Keller of the Missouri Independent, “No change in the partisan makeup of the Missouri delegation, currently six Republicans and two Democrats, is expected as a result of the map.”…

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Missouri agency never contacted railroad to review crossing, site of deadly Amtrak crash

MENDON, Mo. — In March 2021, a small group of men met at a rural railroad crossing in northern Missouri that locals had long been complaining about because of its steep grade and lack of visibility.

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The US faces a new era after the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling. But will it mean a return to the past?

With the constitutional right to abortion gone, healthcare providers, clinics and millions of Americans are grappling with a new reality. But will it mimic the time before Roe v Wade?

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Amtrak was going at 87mph before collision in Missouri, says investigators

NTSB chairwoman acknowledged issues with railway crossing

The Independent UK

KC-area teacher says school was skewing testing data. Then she was fired: lawsuit

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A teacher is suing the Belton, Missouri, school district, claiming it unfairly terminated her contract because she reported concerns that the alternative high school has been unfairly dropping students out of the program and skewing test score data.

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Missouri Amtrak derailment victims identified as train found to be going 87mph

Sisters were waiting for restroom, say relatives

The Independent UK

Editorial: A Missouri vote on abortion? Conservatives are terrified of what the voters would say

In May, weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court discarded the law to return abortion policy to the states, Missouri lawmakers talked about putting an abortion ban in the state constitution.

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New Missouri law bans outside sleeping. KC leaders say it criminalizes homelessness

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans people from sleeping on state-owned land and allows the state attorney general to sue local governments that don’t enforce the ban.

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Before Missouri Amtrak crash, county alerted state, railroad about brush blocking views

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One month before the deadly Amtrak train derailment at a crossing in northern Missouri, the county commission there alerted the state that overgrown brush was obstructing drivers’ views.

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Missouri health system reverses course, resumes offering emergency contraception after assurances

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saint Luke’s Health System said Wednesday it would resume providing emergency contraceptives, reversing course less than 24 hours after The Kansas City Star first reported it was no longer providing Plan B.

The Independent UK

Some Missouri hospitals briefly halt emergency contraception

A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges if they provide the medication known as the morning-after pill, even for sexual assault victims, only to restart the procedures on Wednesday

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‘Everyone got tossed around’: Siblings recount surviving Missouri Amtrak train crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Samantha McDonald and her brother Dax were traveling with other family members from Arizona to Iowa when the Amtrak train they were on hit a dump truck, causing rail cars to tumble off the tracks and land on their side.

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Missouri enacts photo voter ID law before November elections

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a law enacting a photo identification requirement for voters in advance of the November election

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Missouri Gov. Parson signs sweeping new law requiring voters to show photo ID at polls

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Despite pushback from voting rights advocates, Missouri voters will be required to show a photo ID at the ballot box under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday.

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Major health system stops, then resumes Plan B amid Missouri's abortion ban ambiguity

Saint Luke's Health System, which operates several hospitals in the Kansas City area, said it was concerned about the risk of criminal prosecution by offering the emergency contraceptive.

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4 people killed in Monday’s Amtrak crash in rural Missouri identified by authorities

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The four people who were killed when an Amtrak train crashed into a dump truck Monday in rural mid-Missouri have been identified.

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Missouri General Assembly considered an average of 1,866 bills between 2011-2022

Between 2011 and 2022, the Missouri General Assembly considered an average of 1,866 bills and passed an average of 93 bills. The General Assembly passes an average of 5.2% of considered bills each year. In 2022, the Missouri House and Senate considered an above average number of bills (2,105), but…

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Kansas City area health system stops providing Plan B in Missouri because of abortion ban

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A leading health system in Kansas City is no longer providing emergency contraception in Missouri after the state banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest.

The Independent UK

13-year-old driver kills three passengers in Missouri crash

DNA testing or dental records may be required for positive identification after car goes up in flames

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Former Jan. 6 committee counsel to run as independent in Missouri

WASHINGTON — John Wood, the former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Wednesday officially entered the U.S. Senate race in Missouri, adding an independent candidate to an already crowded field of congressional hopefuls.

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