JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-controlled House has voted to increase women’s access to birth control by allowing pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives. Tuesday’s 97-50 vote in the House sends the measure to the Senate. Under Republican Rep. Sheila Solon’s bill, those under 18 would have to show pharmacists a doctor’s previous prescription. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court is wrestling with whether to invalidate a law cutting jobless benefits because of the way it was enacted. In an unusual move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held a second round of arguments in a case that it first heard in January. The Missouri law cuts…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Democrats are advancing plans preventing people with mental illnesses from legally owning firearms. The plans target state gun owner’s identification cards, which allow people to possess firearms. The bills are up for consideration this month by the House and Senate chambers. One plan would temporarily suspend gun permits of people…
WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI Director James Comey says the FBI is still studying the software vulnerability that allowed the agency, with third party help, to access a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California attackers. He told an audience at a Georgetown University conference Tuesday that “we’re really close to sorting that…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – The director of national intelligence says he doesn’t plan to overturn a subordinate’s preliminary decision to build a federal spy agency’s new regional headquarters in north St. Louis rather than relocate to Illinois. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that James Clapper said Monday that he has “no basis” to reject…
