JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has given initial approval to a proposal that sets stricter requirements for tracking fetal tissue after abortions. The proposal passed by a voice vote Wednesday. The bill would prohibit anyone from donating fetal tissue from an abortion for scientific purposes. It also sets stricter standards for pathologists…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is signaling that it’ll rule for a Columbia, Missouri, church that wants state money to put a soft surface on its preschool playground. The case was argued before the justices Wednesday – and it’s being closely watched by proponents of school vouchers. During arguments, liberal and conservative justices alike seem troubled…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Missouri’s Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway has issued a subpoena to the state revenue department for information on tax refunds. Galloway told reporters she’s waited six weeks for information on the number of overdue tax refunds and whether the department is meeting the 45-day deadline to issue refunds as required by state law. The…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Following a morning meeting with Mayor Lyda Krewson and other city leaders, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson is retiring. In a news release from her office on her first full day in office, Krewson says Dotson, a 23-year veteran of the Police Department, will continue to serve the police force as a…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Ferguson Mayor James Knowles is officially serving his third and final term. Knowles was sworn in during Tuesday night’s city council meeting. He calls entering his final term as bittersweet. I’m very excited to go out like this, go out having served my third term, hopefully being able to finish quite a…
A man convicted of fatally shooting a couple near De Soto in 1996 has had his death penalty overturned for a third time. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry called the portion of the trial that led up to Carman Deck’s latest death sentence “fundamentally unfair.” She ordered him to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Attorney General’s Office and a Columbia church say that a U.S. Supreme Court case over who qualifies for state grant money should move forward. Lawyers said Tuesday in letters to the high court that the case isn’t moot, even after the governor last week reversed a rule preventing…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis man whose 4-year-old son died after drinking the father’s methadone has been ordered to spend 15 years in prison. Thirty-seven-year-old Laron Crawford of Berkeley was sentenced Friday in St. Louis County. That’s where he pleaded guilty in February to charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed a plan to change laws on students transferring from failing schools. House members voted 138-6 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate. The measure would require schools to be accredited by individual building instead of just by district. It would allow students at failing…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed a bill on sales tax increases for the St. Louis Zoo. House members voted 88-55 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate, which is considering a similar proposal. The bill allows ballot initiatives to be brought in St. Louis and St. Louis County to…