CARTHAGE, Mo., Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Leggett & Platt today announced that its shareholders voted to approve the merger of the Company with Somnigroup International Inc. (NYSE: SGI). The Merger remains subject to a remaining required regulatory approval and we anticipate that the transaction will close upon satisfaction of the remaining closing conditions.

The basketball superstar and pet health advocate is teaming up with Royal Canin and VCA Animal Hospitals—both proudly part of Mars Petcare—to champion feline preventive care

Missouri received nearly 900 applications for its final round of marijuana microbusiness licenses, with the Missouri Lottery scheduled to draw applicants on Sept. 9 for 77 available licenses. But unlike the entrepreneurs selected in the program’s first two rounds, this year’s applicants will enter a system reshaped by two years of growing pains and dozens […]

More than 300,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage. Ninety-two percent of them weren’t found ineligible. They lost coverage because of paperwork. That number should shape how Missouri prepares for federal Medicaid work requirements, which take effect Jan. 1, 2027.  A proposal to write work requirements into the state constitution passed the Republican-led House this year but […]