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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama state Sen. Kirk Hatcher, a Democrat, speaks outside the Alabama State House in March against a Republican-sponsored bill ...

The Missouri legislature is likely one vote away from placing the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department under state control. The Senate voted 27-5 on Monday to pass a House bill placing control of ...

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EPA is evaluating the Texas Railroad Commission's formal primacy application. If granted, Texas will assume primary enforcement authority—or primacy—over Class VI wells. Carbon capture and storage ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Missouri lawmakers are moving forward with efforts to put the St. Louis police force under state control. Governor Mike Kehoe said this would improve Missouri’s economy ...

Hear more about the state takeover of the police department on The 314 Podcast. The bill to return control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to a board appointed by Missouri’s governor ...

As Missouri stands on the verge of controlling the police forces in Kansas City and St. Louis, new polling suggests that Missouri voters oppose the idea of state control in policing. The poll, ...

ST. LOUIS – State lawmakers in Jefferson City could give final approval to a state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department as soon as Wednesday. The Missouri Senate overwhelmingly ...

Chicagoans with long memories can hear echoes of the past in the growing crisis around finances at Chicago Public Schools. It was just before Christmas in 1979 when CPS, frozen out of debt markets and ...