Abortion-rights advocates will ask Judge Jerri Zhang to overturn Missouri's near-total ban on the procedure on Wednesday.

The first court arguments over whether Missouri's sweeping abortion restrictions will fall under a new constitutional amendment are set to begin.

Dr. Betsy Wickstrom understands where some of the voices opposed to abortion are coming from. She used to be one of them. The Kansas City OB-GYN specializing in high-risk pregnancies is a Republican and a Christian,

The State of Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the 2007 abduction, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings, 49, was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.

Missouri is set to carry out its fourth execution this year on Tuesday night. The man condemned to death was convicted in a 9-year-old girl's 2007 murder.

Collings, himself a father of two now-grown daughters, was convicted of killing Rowan on Nov. 3, 2007 in the tiny southwestern Missouri village of Stella.

Missouri wide receiver Luther Burden III on Monday declared for the NFL Draft, where he is expected to be a first-round pick. Burden said he would skip the Tigers' bowl game and begin preparing for the April draft.

Missouri wide receiver Luther Burden III will enter the 2025 NFL Draft and skip the Tigers' bowl game to prepare, he told ESPN. Burden, who is foregoing his final year of collegiate eligibility, is widely considered one of the top offensive prospects in the draft process.