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The Missouri State Highway Patrol's annual school bus inspections are out, and KMOX wanted to know exactly what goes into keeping a district's fleet of big yellow buses ready for the road. KMOX's Michael Calhoun talks with Travis Warren, transportation operations and fleet manager for Parkway Schools. Warren says Parkway received a 98% score on a recent Missouri state inspection, finding just one...

Debbie Monterrey chats TV Guide's Matt Roush. He has details on a new season for vampire fans, and if you don't like that, a new Cape Fear series debuts, and the Tony Awards are this weekend.

KMOX Legal Analyst Brad Young joins Megan Lynch for his weekly visit. He explains that the so-called 'Weaponization fund' fell apart because of a 'constitutional issue,' whereas Congress has to appropriate money, not the Executive Branch (under which the DOJ falls). He says the dismissal has been entered, so he sees the slush fund being over. Plus a look at when some Missouri ballot measures will...

Wendy Doyle, President & CEO of United WE a non-profit that works to elevate women, joins Megan Lynch. One in three caregivers are part of the so-called "sandwich" generation -- caring for both children and adult relatives. That has an impact on their livelihood, and on the workplace. There's a new multi-state effort to create new supports and solutions. UnitedWE.org

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ABC's Jim Ryan joins Megan Lynch with a look at a new offering from some supermarkets, a bag of groceries that are a surprise! The items are all deeply discounted says Jim, and several stores in the region are participating.

Circus Flora opens its 40th season under the Big Top this weekend for its one-month run. It is St. Louis' very own circus, located in Grand Center.

Maria Keena visits with Retail Energy Advancement League's Abby Foster. She says in Missouri, electric rates have risen 5th fastest in the country.

Amy Moorman, Director of Archives & Collections at the St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, joins Megan Lynch. The museum is hosting a new exhibition, 'Nazis Next Door: St. Louis Faces Nazism in the 1930's' The propaganda, 'was pretty widespread,' in cities across the midwest says Moorman.

Gavin McMahon is a former engineer and consultant who has worked across industries. He's co-founder and CEO of fassforward -- a leadership and storytelling consultancy. His new book is Story Business - Why stories rule the world and how they can reinvent your business. He joins Megan Lynch.

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Matt Roush from TV Guide joins Debbie Monterrey marking the return of America's favorite summer offering, 'America's Got Talent' as well as the debut of a new Mindy Kaling project, plus the NBA Finals.

Could Harris-Stowe join the fold? We get more from KMOX's Jade Aubrey and Harris-Stowe University President Doctor LaTonia Collins Smith.

Media expert and author Julie Smith joins Megan Lynch. She weighs-in on what parents need to know and ask about their kids' social media interaction.

Dr Jeffrey Gillis is a research professor of physics at Wash U. He joins Megan Lynch with an explanation of the impacts of the recent Blue Origin launchpad explosion which destroyed the program's sole Florida launchpad, which could take more than a year to rebuild. Artemis 3's planned return to the moon would utilize space vehicles built by Blue Origin and launched from that damaged location, is t...

WWJ Auto Reporter Jeff Gilbert joined Megan Lynch to answer the question, 'have higher gas prices impacted auto sales?' Jeff tells Megan that he was told, 'gas prices isn't the most important number anymore, the most important number is what the stock market is doing.'

The Pew Research Center is out with a new report exploring which topics American churchgoers say they hear about from their clergy. KMOX Religion Editor Fred Bodimer found about more about the survey when he talked with Pew Senior Researcher Becka Alper.

ABC National Correspondent Steven Portnoy joins Megan Lynch with an explanation on why a federal judge has decided to re-open the case where Pres Donald Trump sued the IRS over the release of hos tax returns. The IRS 'settled' the case before it got to trial, a division of the US Government that Trump controls. The judge says the IRS needs to explain how 'it is not collusion.'

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Peter Greenberg joins Megan Lynch every Friday morning on TIAM. This weeks he looks at the impact of high fuel prices on summer travel, particularly how it has changed airline flights. He says that there was an incredible volume of Americans on the roads over Memorial Day weekend.

Megan Lynch takes you through the top stories of the week: Pain at the pump; insurance rate spikes; Crypto schemes; the Gateway South project.

Michael Loynd is the volunteer chair of the St. Louis Sports Commission and the executive director of the Interco Charitable Trust. The Commission is requesting money from the Rams settlement funds to better fund sporting event recruitment efforts. He joins Megan Lynch. The group would like a $5-million portion of the Rams settlement, calling it a 'bid fund' which would allow them to spend money t...

International Investigations Specialist with the BBB, Brian Edwards joins Debbie Monterrey with a look at online job scams.

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We are learning more about those couple of new tests that the American Cancer Society now says could be an option for colon cancer screening. KMOX Health Editor Fred Bodimer talked about the new guidelines with Dr. William Chapman Junior, a Wash U Medicine colorectal cancer surgeon at Siteman Cancer Center.