Medicaid expansion

The unanimous decision means low-income Missourians eligible via a 2020 ballot initiative can sign up for the health care program, even though the legislature didn’t fund it.

The state Supreme Court will decide whether a 2020 ballot item expanding Medicaid goes into effect — or is invalidated without legislative action.

Missouri Supreme Court judges will decide whether roughly 275,000 people will gain access to the health care program.

One of the groups supporting the lawsuit to follow through with Medicaid expansion is the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, which historically supports the GOP-controlled General Assembly's priorities.

Attorneys for three women trying to sign up for the health care program say they will appeal Cole County Judge Jon Beetem's ruling.

Gov. Parson was expected to make a call by Friday for a special session next week, but that plan was abandoned.

The Missouri Supreme Court is expected to decide the fate of a constitutional amendment expanding Medicaid.

U.S. District Court Judge E. Richard Webber said incendiary text messages between former St. Louis police officers may be used as evidence in the case against them. Legal Roundtable analyzed that case and more on "St. Louis on the Air."

Cole County case could be decided before July 1 start date set by Missouri constitution.

A traveling medical clinic is expanding its reach to better meet the need in rural areas of eastern Missouri. The Rural Parish Clinic’s team of volunteer doctors and nurses treat low-income, uninsured adults out of a 40-foot converted van.