Employees at U.S. Department of Agriculture research facilities across the Midwest have lost their jobs as part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to trim the federal workforce. Former and current employees at one of those labs say the job cuts will impact agricultural research and support for farmers.

The Senate also approved a bill that would ban cellphones in schools, and another that would limit the power of the courts to change ballot language.

As many as 770,000 Illinoisans could lose health coverage under GOP federal budget plan, according to the Democratic governor.

The finding comes after Gov. JB Pritzker proposed to defund the larger of the two programs at his Budget Address last week.

The state’s fees were well below the federal levels for compliance, so the federal government took over.

Eleven candidates are running for three seats on the Board of Education for the St. Louis Public Schools. The election will be held on April 8.

The employee confirms several staffers were terminated, and the park could be down dozens of workers for peak visitor season.

Farmers, nonprofits and state agencies received almost $3 billion in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. But recent federal funding freezes have recipients concerned they won’t end up receiving money.

Dr. Kanika Cunningham says she did not turn the proposal over in response to a Sunshine Law request because “it was a suggestion. It is not a plan.”

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Russell has spent her second term traveling to judicial circuits throughout the state.