JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon says Planned Parenthood can continue receiving funding for women’s health services for a while, despite a Missouri budget provision attempting to stop it. Nixon said Thursday that his administration will eventually implement a ban on Medicaid funding for organizations that perform abortions. The budget takes effect Friday.…
Earth City, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis area has its first medical marijuana farm. The non-profit organization called BeLeaf in Earth City is one of two organizations the state has granted a license for the cultivation of medical marijuana. The license allows the facility to grow marijuana for the treatment of the most severe forms…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Violence continues in the city of St. Louis. Police say three people were shot around 12:30 a.m. Thursday on Texas near Pestalozzi in south city. Two of the victims died and the third is in critical condition. In a separate incident in north St. Louis, two people were stabbed overnight on…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Ferguson woman has been charged in the attack of a security guard at a train station in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/296eJ7o ) reports that 22-year-old Ronisha Pampkin is charged with third-degree assault. Police say she attacked a security guard who was checking tickets at the North Hanley…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former system president and a wealthy university donor will help review the University of Missouri following last year’s turmoil. GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson Wednesday named former system president Gary Forsee and Jeanne Sinquefield to an eight-member review commission. Sinquefield and her husband, conservative donor Rex Sinquefield, have given…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon is backing a proposed power line in Missouri that’s part of a multistate wind energy project. Nixon on Wednesday announced Clean Line Energy Partners has promised to adopt what he described as landowner protections. The project would transmit electricity from Kansas, across northern Missouri and Illinois to Indiana.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An effort to get the legendary Delta Queen riverboat back up and running on the Mississippi River and its tributaries has gotten a boost from the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. The committee on Wednesday agreed to reinstate an exemption for the 89-year-old vessel, which has been docked since 2009. The measure…
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St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count continues to climb. This comes after a double shooting in north St. Louis. Police say a man and woman were in a car on Kingshighway and Vandeventer Tuesday afternoon when they were gunned down. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman suffered a…
