JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has tossed out a court challenge that sought to remove a medical marijuana initiative from the November ballot. Cole County Judge Patricia Joyce in a Friday ruling dismissed the lawsuit. It was filed by another medical marijuana initiative organizer who is trying to remove two other competing…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Attorney General Josh Hawley is suing the owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri, killing 17 people. Hawley filed the lawsuit Friday. He alleges that the owners and operators of the Ride the Ducks tours put profits above people’s safety. His office is suing under the…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted eight requests for clemency and denied 85 other petitions. Rauner’s office announced the clemencies Friday. They continue the Republican’s practice of approving requests at a far lower rate than his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn. The petitions granted were for crimes including burglary, theft, drug possession…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) State Senator Jamilah Nasheed is calling for a hearing on the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s so-called police exclusion list. Nasheed said she wants the Board of Aldermen’s Public Safety Committee to hold hearings into the ‘exclusion list’ of officers for whom the Circuit Attorney’s office has said it may refuse cases…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Temporary repairs have been made to a water main break on I-270 near Route 21. All lanes have re-opened. Missouri American Water reports that a more permanent repair will be performed at a later date. EARLIER STORY St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Three lanes of southbound 270 are closed north…
St. Peters, MO (KTRS) The deaths of a St. Peters couple is being called a murder-suicide. That’s according to investigators who say 41-year-old Kimberly A. Adams suffered a fatal gunshot wound inflicted by her husband, 48-year-old Leslie C. Adams, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officers found the couple in their home on Southwinds…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The top prosecutor in St. Louis has established what she calls an “exclusion list” of 28 city police officers and is reviewing all open cases in which those officers were essential witnesses. The action by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, first reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and confirmed Thursday by Gardner’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Missouri says it’s setting aside $5 million to help low-income customers with energy bills. Ameren on Thursday announced about $1 million of that will go to groups including the United Way and Heat-Up Missouri to help those hit by high summer temperatures this year. Another…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday appointed a local school board president and a former technical college president to the state’s once-embattled K-12 education board, bringing it close to fully staffed. Seven of eight seats on the State Board of Education now are filled, a step forward after a standoff…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat in a decidedly Republican state, is seizing on an issue that she believes resonates in even the most conservative corners of the state — the financial future of the lowest wage earners. The two-term incumbent campaigned Thursday in St. Louis, where she celebrated the…