The Rev. Traci Blackmon of the United Church of Christ, left, laughs with attorney Denise Lieberman, right, after the group walks to the Civil Courts building following a press conference announcing a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, in downtown St. Louis. Over a dozen Missouri faith leaders filed the lawsuit, saying legislators violated the separation of church and state by acting on their personal religious beliefs to create the ban.
Danaye Seay, friend of Dewayne Tunstall, grieves after viewing Tustall’s casket during his funeral on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in Memphis. Tunstall was killed during a shooting spree that left two others dead and three injured last Wednesday. “He was one of my brothers,” Seay said during his speech at the funeral. “He just wasn’t a friend. He just wasn’t a family member.”
Nima Hamdan, center, prays during a vigil Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in the Delmar Loop in St. Louis. Attendees gather to remember the Palestinian lives lost in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
An activist carries a transgender flag during a solidarity march Saturday, March 25, 2023, along Manchester Avenue in the Grove neighborhood. Activists, organized by group “It's all drag!,” marched in response to nationwide legislation, including drag bans and legislation against transgender people.
Sheriff's Deputies Kyle Mueller, left, Brock Bridges, center, and Nathaniel Brandt, right, watch as volunteer Alex Newton, front, takes a sobriety test Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office in Hillsboro. Instructors trained sheriff's deputies on recognizing impaired drivers as well as conducting field sobriety tests. The deputies then practiced sobriety tests on citizen volunteers who were given alcohol.
A beagle is cared for by, from left to right, animal heath coordinator Amy McCubbins, data specialist Julia Kelley and director of shelter medicine Dr. Mark Wright during a health evaluation on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, at the Humane Society of Missouri on Macklind Avenue in St. Louis. The dog was one of 106 rescued by the Humane Society over the last few days.
Teenage volleyball player Janae Edmondson testifies during the third day of Daniel Riley's trial Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the Carnahan Courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Riley was convicted of causing a crash last February that severely injured Edmondson in downtown St. Louis.
Mermaids wave as groups floating by notice them on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023, on the Black River in Lesterville, Mo. The event, entitled the First Midwest Merfolk River Takeover, brought mermaids from both Illinois and Missouri to the river for three days to camp and float.
Jeremy Kilburn, 15, runs up the road to his grandfather Tom Kilburn after catching a fish Thursday, June 18, 2023, at Duck Creek Conservation Area in Wayne County in Missouri. The northern snakehead, an invasive fish species, was found for the second time in Missouri on May 19 in the area by a angler seining for bait. Tom and Jeremy Kilburn, who fish at the area often, say they may have caught a northern snakehead at Duck Creek last year but did not know what it was.