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Missouri's Republican-led Senate has passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting only hours after Alabama's governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law.

Missouri's newly elected legislative leaders are citing good schools and jobs among their priorities.

The Missouri Statehouse office of Republican state Sen. Kurt Schaefer is closed until further notice because of a death threat the lawmaker says he received by telephone last weekend.

Missouri House members have ended their work for the annual legislative session after sending more than 30 bills to the governor on the final day.

Missouri House and Senate lawmakers are set to reconcile differences in a $26 billion budget for next fiscal year.

A Missouri bill would give individuals more flexibility in burying dead family members.

Missouri lawmakers will consider whether to override dozens of vetoes by Gov. Jay Nixon.

Missouri's Republican-led Senate has voted to override the veto of an income tax cut by Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon.

Any money not spent by Missouri in a fiscal year would become a tax credit for the state's taxpayers under a measure heard by a Senate panel.

Gov. Jay Nixon is criticizing an income tax cut plan endorsed by a Missouri Senate committee.