8+ hour, 56+ min ago  (849+ words) A surge of tax refunds tied to Missouri's capital gains tax cut pushed general revenue collections below last year's pace, as the Senate Appropriations Committee worked on Tuesday to finalize the state budget for the coming year. Net general revenue…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago  (798+ words) Gov. Mike Kehoe's office received 10, 000 handwritten letters Tuesday, asking him to veto a Missouri bill that would impose a statewide ban on intoxicating hemp products. The letters, gathered in just 10 days, came from small-business owners, farmers and customers across Missouri…...

9+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1119+ words) When paramedics from the St. Charles City Fire Department arrive at the scene of an opioid overdose, patients refuse to go to the hospital about 75% of the time. But even if they decline treatment, they're likely to accept naloxone kits…...

2+ day, 47+ min ago  (447+ words) The Missouri Senate peeled back its plans to establish broad state oversight of the Missouri State High School Activities Association, passing a less expansive bill Monday that would create a secondary appellate body for the association's athletes. State Sen. Jason…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1008+ words) Missouri hospitals and clinics that perform forensic exams following sexual assault are not required by law to offer emergency contraception to survivors, a coverage inconsistency a bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to correct with legislation aimed at standardizing care…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (377+ words) The Missouri House gave first-round approval Tuesday to a state operating budget that will close an almost $2 billion deficit by using almost all the state's remaining surplus in the general revenue fund. At the end of more than five hours…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (589+ words) Missouri will receive more than $216 million under a sweeping federal rural health initiative, a substantial investment aimed at stabilizing and modernizing care in rural communities. The program will operate on a yearly federal funding cycle over the next five fiscal…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (864+ words) A push for Missouri to immediately adopt planned federal limits on intoxicating hemp products ran into a filibuster in the state Senate Wednesday, with some Democrats demanding any changes wait until national regulations go into effect in November. Democratic state…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (608+ words) Missouri's biggest individual insurer must rebate almost $90 million to policyholders because it spent too little on care and too much on administration. Ambetter from Home State Health, a subsidiary of Clayton-based Centene Corporation, is mailing checks totaling $87. 5 million to customers…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (173+ words) Thankful to Linda Puchbauer for dropping by our Greater St. Louis Area Scouting Shawnee District Committee Meeting tonight September 16 to share the impactful news of Rotary Club of Southeast Missouri Service contributing their Rotary Empowering Girls Grant funds to our…...