According to the lawsuit, the Martins held a young woman in custody as a minor and “isolated her from her family, moved her from state to state, transported her into Mexico and obtained her labor and services through coercion, fear, humiliation, surveillance and punishment” (Getty Images). The proprietors of a now-shuttered Southwest Missouri boarding school…
State Sen. Nick Schroer, left, speaks as Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe prepares to sign a bill making changes to the state’s juvenile and criminal justice systems on Tuesday. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, second from left, and state Reps. Brad Christ, Bennie Cook and John Black look on (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed…
State Sen. Curtis Trent, a Republican from Springfield, will handle a proposal to replace the income tax with sales tax in the Missouri Senate. He is shown in a 2024 photo. (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A top business lobbying group is stepping up its opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment to replace the Missouri income tax…
State Rep. Cecelie Williams speaks about legislation that clarifies the right to divorce while pregnant on Tuesday. She is flanked by Gov. Mike Kehoe and state Rep. Raychel Proudie (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent). A bill making it clear that pregnancy cannot prevent a divorce from being finalized was signed into law Tuesday by Missouri Gov. Mike…
Hundreds of students fill a lecture hall on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus Monday evening to discuss cuts to student organizations representing minority groups (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). University of Missouri administrators’ decision to end direct university funding for student organizations representing minority groups drew fierce backlash Monday night, with group leaders warning the change could…
House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, a Kansas City Democrat, says she is trying to convince more Democrats to help flip GOP seats in the Missouri House (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). For more than 20 years, Republicans have won every Missouri House race in St. Charles County. It is one of two counties in Missouri with…
People wait in long security lines at LaGuardia Airport on March 25, 2026, in the Queens borough of New York City. Travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents have quit or are working without pay during a partial government shutdown. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) This week, as wait times at American airports stretched…
State Sen. Joe Nicola laughs during his introduction to the Missouri Senate on the first day of the 2025 legislative session (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The promise and peril of artificial intelligence have been a recurring theme for Missouri lawmakers this year, as they debate safeguards on campaign advertisements, companion chatbots and mental health therapy that…
Kimberly Dudley, of Cincinnati, is one of the last five Affordable Care Act navigators in Ohio, helping residents find a private health care insurance plan on the public HealthCare.gov marketplace. In one of its first acts, the second Trump administration cut annual funding for the navigator program by 90%. (Photo by Anne Saker/Stateline) CINCINNATI —…
Doug and Shelby Twigger, of Rogersville, prepare to donate blood earlier this year (photo submitted by Doug Twigger). Shelby Twigger hates to miss work. After attending a retirement event with her dad, Doug, in summer 2024, she insisted on going back for the final hour and a half of her shift at Christian County Enterprises…
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