COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri says it’s putting $1.6 million toward doubling its numbers of minority faculty to 13 percent in four years. The Kansas City Star reports that university leaders met on the Columbia campus Tuesday to discuss efforts in the past year to improve diversity, inclusion and race relations. Kevin McDonald,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri state senator has refused to stand while her colleagues recited the Pledge of Allegiance in the state Capitol. Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat, says her silent protest Wednesday on the Senate floor was intended to show solidarity with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick has kneeled…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have concluded their annual veto session after overriding Gov. Jay Nixon to enact measures loosening state gun laws and tightening voting requirements. The Republican-led Legislature overrode the Democratic governor on a total of 13 vetoes Wednesday. The guns laws allow most adults to carry concealed weapons without needing permits. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Department of Conservation is asking deer hunters in seven southwest and south-central counties to have any deer they harvest tested for chronic wasting disease. The department says more than 100 deer and elk in northwest Arkansas tested positive for the disease. The closest infected deer was less than…
(KTRS) – The Missouri House voted to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that creates photo identification requirements for voters. The bill is part of a two-pronged approach to require ID’s at the polls. In November voters will cast ballots on an initiative that would put the requirements into effect. Supporters of the…
(KTRS) – St. Louis Police say that a cab driver was shot and killed during an attempted robbery. Officers found the driver’s body shortly after 10 a.m. in the Central West End near the intersection of Laclede and Kingshighway. Investigators say the driver had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An appellate panel that ordered Missouri to reveal its supplier of lethal injection drugs is giving the state another chance to make its case to shield that information. In a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s three-drug execution protocol, two death-row inmates have subpoenaed Missouri for details about the using the single sedative,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gun control advocates and gun rights supporters are fanning out through the Missouri Capitol, lobbying lawmakers on a bill that would allow most people to carry concealed weapons without needing permits. Missouri lawmakers are to consider Wednesday whether to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of the high-profile legislation. The National…
