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The western Missouri federal district court handed Planned Parenthood a major defeat Wednesday in upholding a legislative ban on letting the organization get state family planning funds.
The restriction had been inserted in the family planning appropriation by anti-abortion legislators who objected to Planned Parenthood because abortions are performed at its clinics.
Planned Parenthood had challanged the restriction, but the appeals court said lawmakers did have the right to control whether funds would go to organizations providing abortions.
See our newspaper story for details.
Educators from all over Missouri packed a small senate hearing room Tuesday to voice their opposition to collective bargaining.
Missouri State Teachers Association spokesman Bruce Moe it would drown teachers under a sea of bureacratic red tape, but the National Education Association supports the idea.
See our newspaper story and our radio story for details.
Rep. Kate Hollingsworth has proposed a bill that enables families to receive a background check on child and elderly care providers by establishing a database.
Sponsors say the bill would let families have the reasurrence needed in the safety of their family members.
See our newspaper story and our radio story for details.
Governor Carnahan said it was the Pope's personal request that persuaded him to commute the death sentence of Darrell Mease. Pope John Paul II asked Carnahan to have mercy on the convicted murderer during his visit to St. Louis last week.
Carnahan stressed that he still favors the death penalty, but took Mease off of death row because of the pope's unusual request.
See our newspaper story and our radio story with digital audio of the governor.