Barring legal intervention, it's looking more likely that Missourians will vote on the GOP's congressional map — meaning it could well not take effect for the 2026 election cycle.

Jail-based pilot programs from the Missouri Department of Mental Health are enabling some people to stand trial while they wait for a state hospital bed in jail or out on bond, but the backlog is still growing.

Public comment is being accepted through October 28.

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, a Republican, said any signatures gathered before Wednesday to place a new congressional map up for a vote won't count. Proponents of the redistricting referendum said that's an unlawful attempt to shorten the signature-gathering window.

Arguments by former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey that abortion regulations do not cause ‘irreparable harm’ to patients is ‘disingenuous,’ an appeals court concluded.

A jury found Lance Shockley guilty of a 2005 murder but deadlocked on the punishment. A judge in Carter County issued the death sentence.

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s K-12 scholarship program, 98% of funds went to religious institutions.

Missouri law allowed a judge to sentence Shockley to death after a jury deadlocked and couldn’t decide on the punishment.

A coalition of organizations in Missouri is working to try to overturn House Bill 1, which created a new Congressional map for the state.