Sarah Fentem

1 week ago | nprillinois.org | Rachel Lippmann |Sarah Fentem

The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a judge in Kansas City to lift two rulings that halted enforcement of the state's near-total ban on abortion. After voters in November approved Amendment 3 to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, the Planned Parenthood affiliates serving the state sued. In December, Judge Jerri Zhang of the 16th Circuit ruled that the ban violated the constitution.

1 week ago | columbiamissourian.com | Sarah Fentem

By Sarah Fentem, St. Louis Public Radio The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is allowing pharmacists to dispense a one-month supply of controlled substances without a written prescription to those affected by recent devastating tornado and storms. Thursday's waiver allows pharmacists to use their judgment to fill the prescriptions for morphine, oxycontin and other medications that are typically more tightly controlled by the government.

1 week ago | kbia.org | Sarah Fentem

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is allowing pharmacists to dispense a one-month supply of controlled substances without a written prescription to those affected by recent devastating tornado and storms. Thursday's waiver allows pharmacists to use their judgment to fill the prescriptions for morphine, oxycontin and other medications that are typically more tightly controlled by the government.

2 weeks ago | kcur.org | Sarah Fentem |Will Bauer

Tornado sirens did not sound in St. Louis during the extreme weather last week because of a “human failure,” Mayor Cara Spencer said Monday. Since a devastating EF3 tornado ripped through the area on Friday that killed five people, an outpouring of residents have said they did not hear a warning that could have saved lives. “A button wasn't pushed, and the sirens were not deployed,” the mayor said.

3 weeks ago | kcur.org | Sarah Fentem |Will Bauer

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV’s path to the Vatican made an early stop in St. Louis. The Roman Catholic Church's cardinals on Thursday elected the 69-year-old native Chicagoan after a two-day conclave in Vatican City. Born Robert Prevost, the first American pope lived in St. Louis in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. In 1977, he entered a novitiate of the Order of St. Augustine at a parish near the present-day St. Louis University medical campus.