Top Stories: Executives of a Springfield charity are accused in federal court of using charity funds to make political contributions and illegal lobbying. Preferred Family Healthcare received more than $300 million in Medicaid reimbursement, federal grants and loans between 2010 and 2016. Court documents say payments to political contributions and lobbying were recorded as business expenses. And Missouri House Democratic Minority Floor Leader Gail McCann Beatty is skeptical proper attention will be given to controversial Facebook remarks from a Republican lawmaker.
