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fox4kc.com
April 3, 2018
It isn't clear who is placing the pickles on the ramp or what their motives are, but someone has consistently been placing them there since around 2012, according to KTVI. “They have survived snowmageddon, construction and protesters. There has got to be a story behind these pickles and inquiring mindsÃâà...
STLtoday.com
April 3, 2018
This will be the first widespread election for which Missouri's new photo identification law applies. Voters generally must bring a government-issued photo ID (a Missouri-issued driver or nondriver license or a U.S. passport or military ID). If you do not have a photo ID, you can instead show another form ofÃâà...
Perry County Republic Monitor
April 3, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY • Amid escalating international trade tensions that have sent jitters through the stock market and spread worry across farm country, Missouri has revamped the way it represents itself in foreign trade offices around the globe. In a move that officials say will save money and allow the state toÃâà...
Columbia Missourian
April 3, 2018
Missouri lagged behind, but that doesn't mean that it can't be fixed now," said Josh Rovner of The Sentencing Project, an organization based in ... "If two teens are both applying for a job, and they both get arrested for vandalism, at age 17, the kid from Missouri is going to have to check that box that saysÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 3, 2018
Prosecutors in southern Missouri are seeking the death penalty for a teen accused of stabbing a transgender teenager to death last September and burning her body. Andrew Vrba was charged with first-degree murder, abandonment of a corpse and armed criminal action following the death of 17-year-oldÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
FILE - In this May 13, 2016, file photo, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon speaks during a news conference at the conclusion of the legislative session at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri's former governor on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, urged the state Supreme Court to overturn a decision blocking a 780-mileÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
"Businesses throughout Missouri pay millions into the unemployment system, which is why it is so disconcerting to find that there are funds being managed without proper oversight or accountability," Galloway said in a statement. "Even simple checks and balances have not been implemented, leaving theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
(AP) — The Missouri House on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions after a fetus is 20 weeks old, an effort that supporters say is aimed at preventing the ... Missouri currently bans abortions once a fetus is viable except to save the life of the mother or prevent harm to a "major bodily function.
Wichita Eagle
April 3, 2018
Missouri colleges and universities faced deep funding cuts last year. Thankfully, the House rejected the nearly $70 million in cuts that Gov. Eric Greitens had proposed for the state's colleges and universities in the budget passed this week. That would have added insult to injury while legislators retained thisÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
April 2, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The state of Missouri has paid out nearly $600,000 to a female corrections officer to settle another sexual harassment lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday cited a report issued by the Missouri attorney general's office showing that Michelle Findley received a check forÃâà...
fox2now.com
March 22, 2018
BOONVILLE, Mo. – A former school employee has been charged with having sex with a student when he was 16. The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports that 27-year-old Clairyssa Lorenz, of California, Missouri, was charged Tuesday in Cooper County with sexual contact with a student. She was chargedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
A southern Missouri couple has been sentenced for a child abuse case involving a young girl who lived with them. March 21, 2018, at 5:32 p.m.. Missouri Couple ... Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley announced Wednesday that a 55-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree statutory sodomy.
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
The family of an Iowa man who drowned to death while handcuffed is frustrated with the type of community service a former Missouri state trooper served ... that the former Missouri state trooper was allowed to do community service by helping with a live theater production after being convicted in the case.
Kansas City Star
March 22, 2018
"The methamphetamine distributed by the defendant affected the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in southwest Missouri," the government's sentencing memorandum said, "including the addicts who used the methamphetamine sold by the defendant and his associates, as well as the families,Ãâà...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
March 21, 2018
Over the objection of four justices, the Supreme Court tonight blocked Missouri from executing Russell Bucklew, who was scheduled to die tonight. Bucklew was convicted for the 1996 murder of Michael Sanders, who was living at the time with Bucklew's former girlfriend, Stephanie Ray. Bucklew kidnappedÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 9, 2018
It's not every day you see the president of a university wearing fetish footwear. That day came on Wednesday in Missouri, and you could say things got a little kinky. Missouri State University president Clif Smart, a known good sport, posed in the iconic, thigh-high, high-heeled red shoes from the BroadwayÃâà...
KSHB
March 9, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Funeral arrangements have been set for a Clinton, Missouri, police officer killed in the line of duty Tuesday night. Funeral services will be held for Ofc. Christopher Ryan Morton, 30, on Monday, March 12 at 11 a.m. at the Benson Center in Clinton. A visitation will be held Sunday,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 9, 2018
KYTV reports that the fire started Thursday night at the Econo Lodge in Cuba, Missouri. The Cuba Volunteer Fire Department says nearly 100 first responders from 14 departments worked through the night to extinguish the flames. Cuba Volunteer Fire Chief Mike Plank said the response "shows the driveÃâà...
St. Louis Public Radio
March 9, 2018
Missouri's ability to investigate housing discrimination and enforce fair housing laws in rural areas could be at risk. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development warned Missouri lawmakers last year that Senate Bill 43's amendments to the Missouri Human Rights Act make the state unable toÃâà...
News & Observer
March 9, 2018
A Swiss-based company will open an aluminum smelter in the Missouri Bootheel region, creating up to 400 jobs in one of the state's most impoverished areas. Gov. Eric Greitens, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith and other political leaders will announce details about the new Magnitude 7 Metals plant Friday in NewÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 8, 2018
A Colorado man who traveled to Missouri to have sex with a 13-year-old was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in federal prison. Dominic Keith Pearson, 26, of Silverthorne, was sentenced in U.S. District Court where he pleaded guilty in October to charges of coercion and enticement of a minor, sexualÃâà...
CNN
March 8, 2018
The women acknowledged they'd argued and called 911, but that call was unrelated to the Clinton shootout, Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Collin Stosberg said Thursday. The address error was likely due to a glitch in the 911 call technology, Stosberg said, though he did not elaborate.
U.S. News & World Report
March 8, 2018
The principle concern is whether Missouri's juvenile system can successfully absorb the hundreds of 17-year-olds currently overseen by adult courts. From fiscal years 2015 to 2017, the Department of Corrections admitted almost 1,000 17-year-olds into adult prisons, according to a financial estimate of theÃâà...
Riverfront Times (blog)
March 8, 2018
But it is looking like Missouri's lawmakers will probably pass it. Eighteen is already the law of the land for most of the U.S. The idea has taken a little longer to settle in here. Missouri, where 50 representatives recently voted against tougher child marriage laws, was one of just five states who still pushedÃâà...
NPR
March 8, 2018
When the call came in, a news release from the Missouri Highway Patrol said no one spoke to emergency personnel but two women could be heard arguing in the background. Sgt. Bill Lowe told reporters that authorities are investigating why the officers were sent to a house in Clinton when they shouldÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 7, 2018
Yes, Missouri State's president put on those 'Kinky Boots' ... Missouri State University president Clif Smart literally wore kinky boots for a social media promotion that appeared Wednesday. ... Smart has a track record of playing dress-up to promote cultural performances at Missouri State University venues.
STLtoday.com
March 7, 2018
ST. LOUIS • Two leaders of a Phoenix-based telemarketing fraud that targeted St. Louis area residents and others have been sentenced to prison, the U.S. Attorney's office said Tuesday. Michael McNeill, 48, of Phoenix, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Joshua Flynn, 36, of Chandler, Ariz., got sevenÃâà...
Jefferson City News Tribune
March 7, 2018
Some of the photo entries in this volume of Missouri military history may prove surprising to those unaware of the state's connection to American history before Missouri became a state in 1821. There are photos and explanations of monuments and memorials ranging from the American Revolution, throughÃâà...
KSDK
March 7, 2018
PETERS, Mo. — An Amazon fulfillment center will bring more than 1,500 jobs to St. Charles County, the company announced Wednesday. The fulfillment center, which will be the first Amazon facility in Missouri, will bring thousands of full-time jobs with benefits at the more than 800,000 square foot location.
Springfield News-Leader
March 7, 2018
"I want to make sure that if we're putting that money back, it's going to result in holding down the cost of college for Missouri students," he said. Fitzpatrick's plan also includes $48 million more than the governor's request for preschool education programs. The move would fulfill promises made by lawmakersÃâà...
NPR
March 7, 2018
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TIME
March 7, 2018
Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Collin Stosberg said the officers went to the home in Clinton on Tuesday night in response to a 911 call in which no one was on the line but a disturbance could be heard in the background.The patrol said shots were fired at the Clinton officers soon after they arrived at the homeÃâà...
KSHB
March 6, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri House bill is seen as either a way to end human trafficking or an overreach of Big Brother — it just depends on who you ask. HB 2422, sponsored by Jim Neely (R-Cameron) would force distributors that sell phones and computers to put porn-blocking software on devices toÃâà...
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