Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) – Legislation aimed at stopping out-of-state plaintiffs from bringing lawsuits to the state is now before the Senate. The Missouri House passed legislation on Thursday by a vote of 100-54. Lawmakers disagree about what the bill would do. Generally, it would limit plaintiffs’ ability to combine lawsuits and require plaintiffs to individually establish…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) One man is dead and another is hospitalized following a shooting in the Central West End. Police say the victims were gunned down early Thursday night at the intersection of Goodfellow and Delmar. There’s no word on the condition of the surviving victim. There’s also no word on a motive or…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A class-action lawsuit says the lack of funding and staff for Missouri’s public defender system has left overwhelmed public defenders unable to provide adequate defense for indigent clients. The ACLU of Missouri and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at St. Louis filed the lawsuit Thursday against Gov. Eric…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Microsoft Corp. plans a regional office at the Cortex tech hub in St. Louis, bringing 150 jobs. The move, announced Wednesday, includes relocating about 60 employees from Microsoft’s office in Creve Coeur, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, to the new office when the $55 million facility opens in 2018. The new…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House lawmakers have passed a bill to block St. Louis from raising the local minimum wage. The GOP-led House on Thursday voted 112-46 to send the measure to the Senate. Republican lawmakers are fast-tracking the legislation to prevent a higher minimum wage from taking effect in St. Louis. At…
( KTRS ) Homicide detectives are handling the investigation into a double shooting that left one person dead in the Central West End. Police report that the shooting happened around 7:20pm at a BP gas station at the intersection of Delmar and Goodfellow Blvd. One male victim, a man in his 20’s was fatally shot…
