( KTRS ) The University of Missouri is countersuing a law school professor who has asked a court to invalidate the university’s ban on firearms. Royce Barondes filed a lawsuit against the university in September, claiming the school’s rules violate his constitutional rights as well as state law. Since then, the university’s team of private…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri cities no longer could ban pit bulls under a bill advancing in the Legislature. The measure passed 117-17 by the House last week would ban breed-specific local ordinances. That means municipalities no longer could ban pit bulls or other dog breeds sometimes considered dangerous. Sponsors say pit bulls are no more…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in St. Louis is weighing whether to sign off on a $1.6 million settlement to a class-action lawsuit involving tens of thousands of unsolicited faxes. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the proposed settlement could amount to up to $180 per copy for dental businesses that claimed Indiana-based…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster’s fundraising continues to outpace the rest of the candidates running for Missouri governor. Campaign finance reports released Friday show Koster raised $2.2 million between the beginning of the year and the end of March. Koster’s $7.4 million in cash on hand is also larger than…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster’s fundraising continues to outpace the rest of the candidates running for Missouri governor. Campaign finance reports released Friday show Koster raised $2.2 million between the beginning of the year and the end of March. Koster’s $7.4 million in cash on hand is also larger than…
(KTRS) – Former banker Shaun Hayes and developer Michael Litz were indicted for crimes, including bank fraud this week. The Post-Dispatch reports that prosecutors say that after Hayes bought control of Excel Bank in 2007, he convinced the bank to purchase loans from Litz’s development company. The issue is that prosecutors say both men knew…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The 26-year-old son of a former Alorton mayor has been sentenced to consecutive life sentences for killing two men in the nearby village of Washington Park. Randy McCallum Jr. was sentenced Thursday in St. Clair County Circuit Court following his February first-degree murder convictions in the 2009 deaths of Charles Black…
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – A committee leading the search for a new president of the University of Missouri system nagged by racial unrest says candidates must have “a deft command” of communications and public relations. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the committee approved a list of qualifications for the successor to Tim Wolfe during…
(KTRS) – Two people are dead and a third is in the hospital after a shooting just about a block from Crown Candy Kitchen in north St. Louis. Police say that the suspect or suspects knocked on the door of the apartment and when someone answered the door, the shots started. Two of the victims…
Chicago, IL (KTRS) – The judge in Dennis Hastert’s hush-money case says that if the former House speaker wants letters of support considered during his sentencing, they must be made public. U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin said in a Thursday filing that the court won’t consider 60 letters “unless they are publicly filed.” The…