COLUMBIA, Missouri, Aug. 28 [Category: Media] -- The Association of Health Care Journalists posted the following news: * * * AI psychosis: How Mashable's Rebecca Ruiz covered the growing phenomenon * Mashable senior reporter Rebecca Ruiz was one of a few journalists who wrote recently about the phenomenon of AI psychosis, a type of altered mental state characterized by paranoia and delusions that can occur after a period of intense use of artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT. M  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri posted the following news release on Aug. 27, 2025: * * * Assistant Professor Admits Embezzling from Washington University An assistant professor of pathology and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine on Wednesday admitted embezzling $412,000 from his employer. Gary Grajales-Reyes, MD-PhD, who maintained an office and research laboratory at the School of Medicine (WashU M  more

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Aug. 29 (TNSjou) -- Southeast Missouri State University issued the following news: * * * Expert Faculty, Real Research: Discover History & Anthropology at SEMO From prehistoric burial sites and Holocaust archives to NBA legends and maritime disasters, SEMO's Department of History and Anthropology is home to faculty whose work is published by leading academic journals and presses and their students benefit directly from their deep knowledge and passion. "Whether you'  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri posted the following news release on Aug. 27, 2025: * * * Franklin County Woman Admits Using Stolen Mail to Commit Fraud A woman from Franklin County, Missouri on Wednesday admitted using stolen mail to commit bank and check fraud. Miranda Burgess, 30, pleaded guilty to all 13 counts that she faces: one count of aggravated identity theft, three counts of possession of stolen mail and nine cou  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: * * * Graves Presents Service Medals to WWII Veteran's Family * KANSAS CITY, MO -- Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) presented military service medals that he was able to recover to the family of a Northwest Missouri veteran. Graves presented medals to the family of William Edgar Taul for his role in WWII. Mr. Taul served in the US Army, beginning in 1944. His military service records were lost in a fire at t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following written testimony by Imagine Media LLC editor Kim Kavin from a July 17, 2025, hearing entitled "Freedom to Work: Unlocking Benefits for Independent Workers": * * * Thank you, Chairman Cassidy and Ranking Member Sanders, for the chance to speak on behalf of America's tens of millions of independent contractors today. My name is Kim Kavin. I'm from New Jersey. My parents were public schoolte  more

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri posted the following news release on Aug. 27, 2025: * * * Kansas City Man Sentenced for Embezzling $612,000 from Employer KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for reimbursing himself $612,000 in fictitious business-related expenses from his employer. Jeremy M. Ubben, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 33 months in federal prison   more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri posted the following news release on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * Leader of Meth, Fentanyl Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a man who built a drug trafficking organization that brought hundreds of pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine to the St. Louis area to 27 years in prison. Stephen Griffin Jr., 51, received a 25-y  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 28 [Category: BizFood/Beverages] -- Anheuser-Busch, a brewing company, issued the following news release: * * * Phorm Energy Launches Its First-Ever National NIL Partnership With The Weeks Brothers * This landmark deal marks the first-of-its-kind athlete sponsorship for this disruptive energy drink brand ST. LOUIS, MO - August 28, 2025 -- Phorm Energy - the game-changing energy drink line produced by Anheuser-Busch with the backing of 1st Phorm and Dana White that  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri posted the following news release on Aug. 26, 2025: * * * St. Louis Man Convicted of $200,000 Kohl's Cash Scam A jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on Tuesday convicted a St. Louis man of all of the charges he faced for stealing more than $200,000 worth of online merchandise from Kohl's. According to evidence and testimony at the trial, Marshall Lampkin, 35, devised a scheme to use "Koh  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Two Self-Professed Religious Leaders Who Used Physical and Psychological Abuse to Coerce Victims to Solicit Tens of Millions in Donations Federally Charged and Arrested * A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan returned a ten-count indictment against two defendants for their alleged roles in a forced labor and money laundering conspiracy that victimized individuals in Michigan, Flo  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 29 (TNSjou) -- The Washington University School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Cells 'vomit' waste to promote healing, mouse study reveals Newly discovered purging process in gastric cells hints at how injury recovery can go wrong By Julia Evangelou Strait A new study from WashU Medicine identifies a previously unknown way that cells purge waste in a process that helps them revert to a stem cell-like state to promote healing after injury. Here  more