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Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounced the death of Brayan Garzon-Rayo on Wednesday. The 27-year-old man died by suicide while in ICE custody at the Phelps County Jail in Rolla.

The legislature also failed to pass bills that would restrict transgender rights, regulate artificial intelligence and the opioid-like drug 7-OH and eliminate vehicle safety inspections.

Other parts of the bill include limits on flying drones over open-air stadiums and establishing a crime for gift card fraud.

The council also approved stormwater improvements near Braemore Road and a new Fire Station 5.

Republican Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway explains why she led the effort amongst many Republican state attorneys general to try to stop Democrat lawsuits from preventing a presidential executive order from going into effect.

A new Washington University study found that St. Louis' guaranteed basic income pilot program helped hundreds of families. But a lawsuit paused payments, and later crises deepened the financial strain many participants already faced.

A new Missouri law requires certain school districts to get voter approval to start or continue the four-day week. The Independence School District, which is by far the state's largest district on the shortened week, will put the issue before voters on Nov. 4.

More than 350 ICE detainees have spent time in the Phelps County jail this year, and more of them are on the way after a two-month pause.

Policy proposals will be presented to a school-funding task force in December, giving the group a year to fine tune them and present them to the governor

The owner of thousands of ‘gray market’ slot machines edged out a competitor offering arcade games with unfair business practices, the ruling held, and must pay $500,000