St. Louis Public Radio

The governor also signed into law on Thursday harsher penalties for drunk driving and age verification requirements for pornography website access.

Amendment 1 reauthorizes a sales tax of one-tenth of 1% that provides money for soil and water conservation projects and Missouri's state parks system.

While lawmakers did not advance bills this year, more are speaking out, calling for hearings and special sessions on data centers.

Jordan Rincker, 28, was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder. He is the second man from Missouri charged in the alleged plot.

The press conference announcing the hearing Tuesday came hours before a Montgomery County anti-data center group released a survey that showed widespread opposition to a planned center there.

Academics, business leaders and government officials spent the day making the case for and trying to build excitement for data centers coming to Missouri.

Preis will lead the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which oversees about 500 public school districts and charter school systems in the state.

The Democratic senator from Connecticut was in St. Louis County last week to promote his new book, “The Crisis of the Common Good: The Search for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America.”

Missouri lawmakers cut the Imagination Library's budget for the upcoming fiscal year by more than half — from about $6 million to $2 million. The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said it won't have the money to enroll new children in the program after next month.

When a storm damaged thousands of homes on May 16, 2025, it accelerated a growing vacancy problem in the city's predominantly Black neighborhoods driven by decades of redlining, disinvestment and white flight.