Jefferson City, MO (AP) The GOP-led Missouri Senate has given initial approval to a proposal to amend the Missouri Constitution to provide further religious protections for those objecting to gay marriage. The 23-9 vote Wednesday came after Republicans broke a more than 30-hour Democratic filibuster. The measure would prohibit government penalties against business owners and…
New Florence, MO (KTRS) A suspect wanted in five murders is in custody. Authorities say Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was found at just after midnight hiding in a ditch just north of I-70 near Route 19 in Montgomery County, Missouri. Police were alerted of his whereabouts after he allegedly confronted someone at gunpoint. Serrano-Vitorino has already…
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) – A southeast Missouri man is in custody following a fatal shooting outside a Wal-Mart store in Poplar Bluff. The body of 50-year-old Stahl Sturgeon of Doniphan was found around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday inside a car on the store parking lot. Authorities say 33-year-old Joseph Wisdom was arrested inside the store…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – The Missouri Highway Patrol says a man wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of five people is in custody after a manhunt. The Highway Patrol told the Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1LQzrbu ) early Wednesday morning that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino had been arrested in Montgomery County, Missouri. The newspaper reports…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers has prevailed over the leaders of both parties to approve deeper budget cuts to the University of Missouri. Lawmakers voted 83-75 Tuesday to transfer $1 million from the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus to Lincoln University in Jefferson City. The House speaker, majority floor…
(KTRS) Former University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click is appealing her firing, last month, over her role last year in race-related student protests. Click says her dismissal by university system curators was unfair. In firing Click, top university administrators cited her run-ins with police during October protests and with two student journalists weeks later…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on campaign 2016 as Michigan, Mississippi, Idaho and Hawaii vote for nominees Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential caucuses in Hawaii, adding to his victories earlier Tuesday in Michigan and Mississippi. Trump won three of the four Republican contests held on Tuesday. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won the fourth,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Ferguson is closer to resolving a civil rights lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department. The City Council in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown sparked unrest gave a first reading Tuesday to a measure that would approve an agreement with the Justice Department. The deal…