UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. : The Cook County judge has issue the restraining order. The law is suspended once again.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The story out of Chicago today — that the state’s 1995 parental notification law on abortion will start…

JEFFERSON CITY — Planned Parenthood sued the state Wednesday to object to the language in two proposed anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell funding ballot initiatives.

The lawsuits, filed in Cole County Circuit Court, seek to stop the approval of language for a ballot initiative that…

JEFFERSON CITY — It’s entirely too early to be able to determine how many ballot initiatives Missouri voters will see on the November 2010 ballot, but they will have plenty of opportunity to sign petitions at the grocery store between…

Ortwerth

Joe Ortwerth, a major local newsmaker during his 12-year tenure as St. Charles County executive which ended in 2006, has been largely out of the media spotlight in his current role as a lobbyist for the Missouri Family Policy Council.

But he popped…

Bray

JEFFERSON CITY — The fallout from the Senate compromise on the abortion bill grew exponentially this morning.

Sen. Jack Goodman, R-Mt. Vernon, chastised Sen. Joan Bray, D-University City, on the floor of the Senate this morning for her comments last night criticizing…

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Senate passed controversial abortion legislation early Thursday morning after lengthy negotiations that gutted the version of the bill that passed the House early this session.

Originally, the bill would have created the crime of coercing an…

JEFFERSON CITY — Never count out an abortion bill in the Missouri Legislature.

This year’s abortion bill, which would strengthen existing waiting period laws and add the crime of coercing an abortion, is back to life in the Missouri Senate. The…

Brad Lager

JEFFERSON CITY — It’s hard to find a middle ground between those for and those against abortion rights in Missouri. But both have come together against a bill from Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee…

Huckabee

ST. LOUIS — Former Arkansas governor and GOP White House hopeful Mike Huckabee will make another stop in Missouri, speaking tonight on the campus of St. Louis University.

On Monday, Huckabee keynoted a gathering of the anti-abortion Vitae Foundation in Jefferson…

UPDATE: The filibuster ended at 9:23 p.m. when Sen. Rob Mayer asked that his bill be laid over. A little more than 5 hours. Likely ends debate on the issue in the Senate this year.

JEFFERSON CITY — As the…