Missouri child abuse investigators missed warning signs of fentanyl use among parents before their young children died of accidental overdoses from the drug, according to a new state report. It found that Children's Division investigators, who are tasked with following up on claims of abuse and neglect, "lacked essential procedures, missed warning signs and left vulnerable children at risk." Jessica Seitz, executive director of the Missouri Network Against Child Abuse, joins the show. She also helped put the report together.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office argues the three Republican lawmakers are protected by ‘legislative immunity’.

Drug overdoses have killed more than 23,000 Missourians in the last two decades. Many of those were involved fentanyl and other potent opioids.

The majority of the pollutants released by Tyson in the five years the study examines were in the Midwestern states of Nebraska, Illinois and Missouri.

A recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found working-age rural residents die from natural causes at a higher rate than their urban counterparts. And that gap has widened over the years.

Genesis Charter School in Kansas City will stay open, despite the Missouri State Board of Education's attempt to revoke its charter.

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

Attention area golfers! Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries is hosting a golf tournament fundraiser at The Country Club of Missouri later this month, and you're invited. Today's guest, Joe Knight, says every dollar raised will go towards supporting Coyote Hill's mission of giving foster care children "a safe place to be a child." May 3, 2024

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

In this episode of River Town, we’re going to meet River Town’s youngest upstanding citizens, learn what people are doing to protect our waterways from pollution, and what’s happening in Missouri water policy right now.

St. Louis’ school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.

Lawmakers are weighing multiple bills that would bar developers from seizing land to build wind and solar farms