FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been ordered to spend nearly two years in jail. State District Judge Wayne Salvant said Wednesday that Ethan Couch must spend 180 days in jail for each of the four people he killed in 2013 when…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Top House Republicans say they are likely to grant a portion of President Barack Obama’s $1.9 billion request to combat the Zika virus but will probably wait until September to do so. Congressional Republicans have succeeded in forcing the administration to divert almost $600 million in unspent Ebola funds to fighting Zika.…
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Paul Ryan’s national stature is such that he had to call a news conference to deny he wants to be president. Back on Capitol Hill, he’s about to blow through a statutory deadline to pass an annual budget, a major embarrassment for him and House Republicans. Under the government’s arcane…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  There’s more bad news for the coal industry. St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, the nation’s largest coal miner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday. The filing comes less than three months after Creve Couer based Arch Coal, the country’s second-largest miner, filed for bankruptcy. Mines and offices at Peabody, a company…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House is advancing legislation to ban donation of fetal tissue from abortions. House members in a voice vote Tuesday gave the legislation initial approval. The bill was spurred by legislative investigations into abortion practices in the state following the release last year of undercover videos that anti-abortion activists…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork – including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans – at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads. The Springfield News-Leader reports the FBI announced the reward Monday. The FBI says the break-in at the Springfield Art Museum took…
( KTRS ) Missouri could soon pay testing fees for residents taking a high school equivalency test, for the first time, under a proposal that has won initial approval in the state Senate. It needs another vote before going to the House, which passed similar legislation last month. The measure would cover students regardless of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The state Senate has passed a mid-year spending increase to Missouri’s $26 billion budget. Senators voted 31-0 Tuesday to pass a budget supplement of $466 million in state and federal money, which largely reflects higher health care costs than officials estimated last year. Higher drug prices have been the biggest…
