Reporters interview Eric Meyer outside of the Marion County Record office in Marion, Kansas, the site of a 2023 police raid, after an Oct. 7, 2024, court hearing for Gideon Cody, the former Marion police chief who led the raid. Meyer and others reached agreements with the county Monday for its role in the raids…
Telephones inside the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo., where incarcerated people pay per-minute rates to call loved ones. (Photo by Amanda Watford/Stateline) The Federal Communications Commission voted to roll back limits on how much companies can charge incarcerated people and their families for phone and video calls. The 2-1 vote…
GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). TOPEKA, Kansas — The Kansas City Chiefs put out a request for proposals to design a new stadium on the Kansas side of the state line and are negotiating for land near the Kansas Speedway, according to two reports from Kansas…
Slaphappy Hemp farm in Rosebud (photo submitted). John Grady and his wife Kara opened up their hemp emporium in Rosebud on July 4 — and they say about 60% of their customers are veterans, like Grady, who are treating chronic pain or PTSD with intoxicating hemp products. Last night, they watched the U.S. Senate vote…
Jeff Garland, right, gives a tour of Papa G’s Organic Hemp Farm in Crawford County, Indiana, on June 23, 2022. Jeff and his son started the farm in 2020. At left is Lee Schnell of the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, which is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)…
President Donald Trump attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on Monday he pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other people allegedly involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the president’s…
Blister packs of hormone replacement therapy medication. (Getty photos) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it plans to remove warnings from hormone replacement therapy drugs that can be used to address symptoms of menopause, saying the statements are no longer needed. The black box warning, the strongest caution possible from the…
A new “meds to beds” program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital dispenses Hepatitis C medication to women before they are discharged after giving birth (Getty Images). Until recently, it was not uncommon for Dr. Jeannie Kelly, a high risk obstetrician at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to diagnose a pregnant patient with Hepatitis C,…
Katherine Ostler votes while her 8-year-old son, Henry, looks on in November 2024 in Salt Lake City. Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, battles are already underway across the country over state ballot measure campaigns. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) When Missouri Republican lawmakers approved a new district map in September to…
A cancer patient’s medical bills are spread on a kitchen table in a home in Salem, Va., in this 2011 file photo. A new Trump administration rule would override more than a dozen state laws that shield consumers’ credit reports from medical debt. (Photo by Don Petersen/Associated Press) A new Trump administration rule issued late…
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