COLUMBIA, Mo. - For as long as she can remember, Maria Effinger has been committed to serving others. From the many days she spent as a child admiring her mother impact young lives in a classroom to ...

This week, Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has been making headlines with her heroic stance against legally protected bigotry. On Tuesday Chappelle-Nadal led a record-shattering 39-hour ...

ST. LOUIS – Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat and a former Missouri state representative, has launched a run for a Missouri U.S. Congress seat that represents the City of St. Louis. Chappelle-Nadal ...

April Breeden (L) embraces her wife, Crystal Peairs, at City Hall in St. Louis, Missouri Nov. 5, 2014. Missouri Senate Democrats were fighting Tuesday night a constitutional amendment that would allow ...

Chappelle-Nadal, the state lawmaker who wished for Trump to be assassinated and later apologized, posted a meme made from a Dove bath soap ad. The original ad featured a black woman in a brown shirt, ...

A Democratic state senator in Missouri is facing resignation calls for posting on Facebook Thursday that she hopes President Trump is assassinated. “I hope Trump is assassinated!” state Sen. Maria ...

A Missouri state senator has had some choice words for Gov. Jay Nixon over Twitter over the past two days. “F—- you, Governor,” Democratic State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal tweeted at the governor, ...

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