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By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — People in Missouri won’t be charged for a second mammogram under a bill advancing in the legislature. The GOP-led House voted 126-29 on Thursday to send the measure to the Senate. Advocates say the bill should reduce medical costs by making sure cancer and other serious

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — D’Moi Hodge scored 23 points, DeAndre Gholston added 20 and Missouri stormed back to beat LSU 81-76. Hodge made 8 of 16 shots with five 3-pointers for Missouri’s Tigers (22-8, 10-7 Southeastern Conference), who have won three straight and picked up their first win on LSU’s home floor. Hodge added

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s governor would once again have control over St. Louis police under a bill advancing in the state House. The Republican-led House on Wednesday gave initial approval to the legislation. A state commission oversaw the St. Louis Police Department dating back to the Civil War

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK INGRAM KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three Kansas City police officers were shot and wounded while searching a suspected drug house, prompting a standoff that ended about 18 hours later with the discovery of a body. Missouri, patrol spokesman Sgt. Bill Lowe said the SWAT team entered around

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday set a June execution date for man convicted of killing two Missouri jailers during a botched attempt to free an inmate. Michael Andrew Tisius is scheduled to be executed June 6 at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the shooting deaths of Randolph

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are debating a proposal to ban most LGBTQ education subjects in public schools across grade levels. The bill is modeled on a Florida law passed last year, but goes further by applying the ban to all grade levels, not just early elementary grades.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three Kansas City police officers were shot and wounded while searching a suspected drug house, prompting a standoff. The Kansas City police chief told reporters outside a hospital that the tactical response team officers had forced entry into a house around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when they were fired

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three Kansas City police officers were shot and wounded while executing a search warrant, prompting a standoff at a home. Kansas City police Chief Stacey Graves told reporters outside a hospital that the tactical response team officers had begun to breach a door around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — U.S. senators are planning to propose legislation that would make railroads, like the one involved in last month’s fiery crash and toxic chemical release in Ohio, subject to a series of new federal safety regulations and financial consequences. Democrat Sherrod Brown and Republican JD Vance

By JOE HARRIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Morgan Geekie scored twice and the Seattle Kraken snapped a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Blues. Geekie ended a 10-game scoring drought that dated to Jan. 28 with his first multi-goal game of the season. Jared McCann and Jamie Oleksiak

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A white supremacist who killed a woman when he rammed his car into a crowd at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville has been fined for threatening a correctional officer and brandishing a weapon at the prison where he is serving a