Missouri updates laws for changing gender on IDs
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (News First) – Missouri residents now will need proof of surgery or a court order to change their gender on their driver’s licenses. Missouri previously required approval from a doctor to update gender on state-issued identification. The...
Jay Ashcroft approves four statewide amendments
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft today (Mon, Aug 19) issued certificates regarding four initiative petitions filed with his office. To receive a Certificate of Sufficiency, a minimum number of valid signatures must be obtained in six of the eight congressional...
Woman charged in brazen plot to extort Elvis Presley’s family and auction off Graceland
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges she orchestrated a brazen scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale,...
Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race
Kayla Reed was born in a predominantly African American section of St. Louis where, like her own kin, many Black families had been transplanted out of the Deep South. After the death of her grandmother, Reed moved with her father from the city to a St. Louis County...
