The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded Missouri another $10 million opioid crisis grant.

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) on Wednesday praised the female pilot who successfully made an emergency landing after an engine on her Southwest plane exploded, and chided Air Force officials for at one point turning the pilot away after she sought to join the service.

We recently reported on a call-to-action put out by the National Boating Federation asking boaters to help fight a proposed expansion of E-15 ethanol fuel.  Now one of the state’s Senators is lobbying for increases in renewable fuels.

Bipartisan senators on Tuesday asked the EPA to stop issuing waivers that allow oil refiners to avoid obligations to blend biofuels into gasoline.

Senator McCaskill and Blunt are continuing their push for better broadband coverage in rural areas, meeting with representatives of Missouri Electric Cooperatives this week in Washington, D.C..

Senior Army leaders were questioned Thursday over $50 million in questionable costs billed to taxpayers — including seven luxury cars and roughly $400,000 salaries for significant others to serve as assistants — as part of a federal contract meant to train Afghan security forces.

Carl Ferrer is suddenly singing a different tune. The chief executive of the online site Backpage spent years proclaiming his company’s innocence despite overwhelming evidence that it was facilitating child sex trafficking. He has been dragged kicking and screaming into court and before Congress, insisting his classified advertising site wasn’t responsible for its own smutty content.

The classified advertising website where all seven Joplin massage businesses that have been closed had ads posted is not accessible today. Before being seized last week by the U.S. Department of Justice, Backpage.com was a website not unlike the popular online marketplace Craigslist, with sections offering ads for jobs, furniture, cars and more.

A long-term goal of two Missouri lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle became law this week when President Donald Trump signed a bill designed to combat online sex trafficking.

US Senator Claire McCaskill is continuing to seek answers for questionable costs billed to taxpayers under a federal contract for mentoring and training Afghan security forces, known as Legacy East.

A Democratic senator chastised U.S. Army leaders today while pushing for more information involving a British firm that allegedly used U.S. military contracting dollars to buy high performance cars and other luxuries at the cost of American taxpayers.

Fast, reliable internet service in rural Missouri is now getting a big boost.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded contracts for hurricane supplies without adequately researching whether winning bidders could deliver what they promised, according to a new investigation by Democrats on a Senate oversight committee.

Missouri’s U.S. Senators have similar positions on China’s proposed tariffs on Missouri goods, including ag products. Senator Roy Blunt spoke with reporters in Jefferson City after addressing the Missouri House last week, “I’ve been concerned both publicly, and in the oval office with the president, that a trade war always has unintended consequences and is harder to get out of than it is to get into.”

Federal officials said they were shutting down Backpage, a controversial classified-ad website that has long been accused by political leaders and law-enforcement officials of providing a platform for prostitution and sex trafficking.

Missouri is getting close to $280,000 in federal funding for housing for homeless veterans.

Federal authorities have taken down Backpage.com, a major classified advertising website that has been repeatedly accused of enabling prostitution and sex trafficking of minors.

Backpage.com, the website known for its sex and prostitution-related classified advertisements, was shut down and seized by the FBI on Friday, according to reports and a large notice displayed on the site’s homepage.

Homeless veterans in Poplar Bluff, Missouri will soon have more affordable housing and supportive services.

U.S. Senators are sounding the alarm about a 1,400 percent price hike for a cancer medication. But can anything be done?