Best Read Missouri Headlines
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#1 Toxic Traces of Lead Mining in Missouri Are Hard to Erase
Jan 13 2025 // To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is look at Richard Rankin’s backyard in Missouri. The septic system of his home in Fenton was...
#2 Missouri Special Session to Include Discussion on Aid for Tornado Victims
May 29 2025 // Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or...
#3 Mississippi River Flooding is Pushing People Out of Their Homes, Data Shows
Jun 12 2024 // WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. But persistent and sometimes devastating flooding has added to the woes of...
#4 Starbucks Sued by Missouri Over DEI, Race and Gender Bias
Feb 12 2025 // Starbucks SBUX.O was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. state of Missouri, which accused the coffee chain of using a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as a pretext to systematically discriminate based on race, gender...
#5 88-Year-Old Missouri Victim in Boar’s Head Deli Meat Outbreak Underscores Risk
Aug 16 2024 // A lifelong lover of liverwurst, Sue Fleming relished the smoked sausage her husband brought home every few weeks from the grocery store deli. Patrick Fleming always made sure to buy Boar’s Head braunschweiger, the...
#6 Missouri Threatens to Seize Chinese Assets Across US in $24 Billion Lawsuit
Mar 12 2025 // Missouri’s attorney general is threatening to seize Chinese assets across the U.S. to collect $24.5 billion awarded in a lawsuit against China stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts were skeptical Monday,...
#7 Missouri Appeals Court Sides With Transgender Student in Discrimination Case
Jun 11 2024 // BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A $4.2 million verdict that jurors ordered a Missouri school district to pay a transgender student is under consideration again. The Western District Missouri Court of Appeals found last Tuesday...
#8 Rapper Nelly Arrested in Missouri for Lack of Insurance, Possession of Ecstasy
Aug 9 2024 // Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino, and the Missouri Highway Patrol said an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper’s attorney said an “overzealous”...
#9 Dozens of Catholic Priests and Nuns Accused of Child Abuse in Missouri Lawsuits
Jul 29 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is...
#10 Court Tosses Missouri Law That Banned Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws
Aug 29 2024 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges overturned a Missouri law Monday that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of...
#11 Missouri Farmer Who Stars in Reality TV Series Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud
Nov 7 2024 // A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits. Steve A. McBee, 52,...
#12 Missouri Jury Asked to Award More Than $6B in Preterm Formula Case
Oct 31 2024 // A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott ABT.N and Reckitt’s RKT.L Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas...
#13 Missouri Officers Arrested for Allegedly Searching Womens’ Phones for Nude Photos
Nov 19 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes — pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos. The indictments of former Missouri...
#14 As State Attorneys General Grab Headlines With Lawsuits, Missouri’s Bailey Stands Out
Mar 14 2025 // When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey says he’ll seize assets to force China to pay a $24.5 billion award won in a lawsuit over COVID-19, the action might be aimed more at bolstering conservatives’...
#15 Former Principal of Missouri Boarding School Charged with Sex Crimes Involving Student
Oct 31 2024 // A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student. Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged by the prosecutor in...
#16 NTSB Says a Utility Wasn’t Marked Before a Deadly Natural Gas Explosion in Missouri
May 7 2025 // A deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable, the National Transportation Safety...
#17 Missouri DCI Estimates High Uninsured Rates in St. Louis Amidst Tornado Recovery
May 23 2025 // The Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance released preliminary uninsured estimates for properties in the St. Louis in response to the F3 tornado that struck the region on Friday, May 16. DCI Department Director...
#18 Ex-Staffers of Missouri Boarding School Face Suit Alleging Abuse of Students
Jun 28 2024 // JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yet another civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against a Missouri Christian boarding school by a former student accuses staffers of forced child labor, physical abuse and tactics aimed at hiding...
#19 Missouri Football Field to Feature Shelter Insurance Logo in New Form of Advertisement
Aug 28 2024 // When the nationally ranked University of Missouri Tigers football team takes the field Thursday for its season opener against Murray State, fans will notice something unusual on the field: sponsored logos. A new rule...
#20 Man Who Burned Down a Missouri Church Sentenced, Ordered to Pay $7M
May 22 2025 // A man who admitted in federal court to setting the fire that destroyed an eastern Missouri church has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison and ordered to pay the church nearly $7 million. The sentence for...
