BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) – Lt. Gov.-elect Mike Parson says he is recovering after undergoing heart surgery. He says he will be ready to take office on Inauguration Day next week. Parson released a statement Monday disclosing the surgery. He said the heart problem was discovered during a routine medical checkup. James Harris, an adviser to…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A southeast Missouri police chief and a St. Louis police captain will lead Missouri’s Department of Public Safety. Governor-Elect Eric Greitens has named Sikeston Police Chief and Public Safety Director Drew Juden as the new director of the Department of Public Safety, along with St. Louis Fire Captain Gregg Favre…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – An attorney for media outlets including The Associated Press argues that Monday’s competency hearing for convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof should be open. Attorney Jay Bender filed an objection Friday to federal Judge Richard Gergel’s proposal to close the hearing, arguing there’s no compelling reason to exclude the public. Bender…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis federal judge says she wants to hear arguments over a lawsuit’s challenge of a new law limiting campaign contributions before deciding whether to put a temporary hold on such caps. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2hzODPq ) reports U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry held a hearing Thursday in St.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican Missouri lawmaker says he has a solution to end tense debates over same-sex marriage. Rep. T.J. Berry wants to take government out of marriage and leave it to houses of worship by classifying such legal partnerships as domestic unions. His bill, pre-filed ahead of the 2017 legislative session,…
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office will handle the murder retrial of Reginald Clemons. A circuit judge made that ruling on Thursday, just one day after St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce argued for the state to take over the case. Clemons was one of four men convicted in the 1991 murders of sisters Robin and…
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Department of Conservation says a beetle that is fatal to ash trees has spread to southwest Missouri. The department says the emerald ash borer was recently found in Laclede County. It is the first time the insect was found in southwest Missouri. It has now been found in 31…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The temporary Illinois budget plan agreed to last summer expires with the new year. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the General Assembly have hardly talked about how to replace it. Elementary and high school funding continues through June. Billions more gets spent because it’s court-ordered or is automatically…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A suburban St. Louis man has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that court documents say 51-year-old Willie Jackson, of Florissant, wanted the “victim tied up, beaten and left for dead.” He was arraigned Tuesday on charges of second-degree attempted murder and violating an order of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican Missouri lawmaker says he has a solution to end tense debates over same-sex marriage. Rep. T.J. Berry wants to take government out of marriage and leave it to houses of worship by classifying such legal partnerships as domestic unions. His bill, pre-filed ahead of the 2017 legislative session,…