Missouri state Rep. Justin Sparks said he plans to challenge Jon Patterson for speaker of the House, based in part on ...

This allowed the Missouri Compromise to become possible, as Missouri and Maine could then be accepted without upsetting the Senate's balance between free and slave states. The compromise admitted ...

Was the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, an example of that progression of our founding ideals, or was it a step backward? Was Congress ...

With some GOP leaders in Missouri already plotting ways to overturn an abortion-rights amendment if it passes next month, the ...

After this election, widely claimed to be the most important in U. S. history, upon which the fate of democracy itself rests, ...

A constitutional amendment on the state ballot would protect “the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters ...

Voters in Kansas and Missouri re-elected a supermajority of Republicans to their general assemblies this week.

Missouri House Minority Leader Crystal Quade wants to become Missouri's next Democratic governor. She's up against Republican ...

In 1820 the Missouri Compromise was passed to sort out this issue. By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri ...

Missouri voters have approved legal online and retail sports ... means both parties will have to compromise on any ...

Missouri gambling regulators will offer online and retail sportsbook licenses to six major pro sports franchises, as well as each of 13 casino locations across the state. It also will allow ...

The issue was resolved by a two-part compromise. First, Missouri gained admission to the Union as a slave state, with a provision that portions of the Louisiana Territory lying north of 36' 30 ...