KANSAS CITY, Missouri, May 9 -- Husch Blackwell, a law firm, issued the following news release: National law firm Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Missouri Lawyers Media has named partner Joseph Orlet to its 2024 POWER list for Business Defense. Based St. Louis, Orlet is a member of the firm's Manufacturing and Technology industry groups. He focuses his practice on toxic tort, product liability, mass tort, and class action matters throughout the United States. In the toxic tort and   more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 9 -- The Democratic Party of Missouri issued the following news: This past weekend, the Missouri Republican Party held their State Convention, at which their signature deep dysfunction was on full display, and so much chaos ensued that they were unable to adopt a 2024 party platform. Instead, the Missouri Republican Party announced they have readopted the 2020 party platform currently in place, doubling down on their extreme, toxic agenda to strip rights away from   more

ROLLA, Missouri, May 9 (TNSres) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: Two faculty members at Missouri S&T have been selected for the university's second cohort of ADVANCE Faculty Fellows. In 2022, Missouri S&T was awarded a $1 million grant through the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program to work toward increasing the representation of women -- especially those from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups -- in faculty and leadership positions at  more

ROLLA, Missouri, May 9 (TNSres) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: A Missouri S&T computer engineering professor is working to improve the detection of skin cancer, and he was recently awarded a $440,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his efforts. "When skin cancer is detected early, it can be more effectively treated," says Dr. Joe Stanley. "The publicly available dataset our research team is developing will help experts bette  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 9 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a motion to block Media Matters from shutting down a Missouri court after the nonprofit filed a motion in D.C. court to halt his investigation into its fraudulent business practices. General Bailey filed suit against Media Matters in March to force the nonprofit to turn over documents related to his investigation, and t  more

EAGLE PASS, Texas, May 9 -- Gov. Michael Parson, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, Governor Mike Parson visited the Southern Border near Eagle Pass, Texas, to connect with Missouri National Guard (MONG) soldiers deployed to the Southern Border and sign House Bill (HB) 2016 into law. HB 2016 passed the Missouri General Assembly with bipartisan support and includes funding for Missouri's Southern Border deployment, aiding Texas Governor Greg Abbott's Operation L  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 9 -- Western Governors University-Utah issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Western Governors University's (WGU) Michael O. Leavitt School of Health (LSH) today opened a new nursing simulation and learning laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri, that will provide high-quality, clinical nursing education to students from Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. The lab is part of WGU's efforts to address the nursing shortage crisis in the United States by expanding access  more