( KTRS ) Candidate filing to run for Congress, the state Legislature and statewide offices in Missouri has ended. The secretary of state’s office reports almost 500 candidates filed to run for various offices this year. More Republicans are running than Democrats, with 255 GOP candidates and 197 Democratic hopefuls. St. Louis businessman John Brunner, former…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri Senate panel has begun making changes to the House’s version of the state budget, but many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved. The Senate’s budget writers Tuesday left open questions about how to fund soaring Medicaid costs and higher education. Gov. Jay Nixon has said a 6…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Police say a man was fatally shot as he was polishing the wheels of his vehicle in the St. Louis neighborhood of Baden. St. Louis Police Lt. John Green said that two men got out of a car and opened fire on the man as he was working on his car…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Senate budget writers have agreed to boost Missouri’s higher education spending, but the panel still is deliberating over budget cuts targeting the University of Missouri. Senate Appropriations Chairman Kurt Schaefer said Tuesday that providing a $55 million increase in core funding for colleges and universities would ensure students don’t pay…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Missouri lawmakers are pushing measures opponents say will ban abortions, as well as fetal-tissue donation from those procedures. A House committee heard testimony Tuesday on the proposals but didn’t vote. Rep. Mike Moon’s proposal would ask voters to decide whether to add “unborn human children at every stage of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The public will get an opportunity for comment on the proposed settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Ferguson at a hearing next month. The hearing will be at 9:30 a.m. April 19 in Courtroom 3 North of the Thomas Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in St. Louis. U.S.…
