Ferguson, MO (KTRS) The city of Ferguson is one step closer to resolving a lawsuit with the Department of Justice. A first reading of a measure approving an agreement with the DOJ was given at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Mayor James Knowles says he believes passing the consent decree is what should be done.…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) The GOP-led Missouri Senate has given initial approval to a proposal to amend the Missouri Constitution to provide further religious protections for those objecting to gay marriage. The 23-9 vote Wednesday came after Republicans broke a more than 30-hour Democratic filibuster. The measure would prohibit government penalties against business owners and…
New Florence, MO (KTRS) A suspect wanted in five murders is in custody. Authorities say Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was found at just after midnight hiding in a ditch just north of I-70 near Route 19 in Montgomery County, Missouri. Police were alerted of his whereabouts after he allegedly confronted someone at gunpoint. Serrano-Vitorino has already…
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) – A southeast Missouri man is in custody following a fatal shooting outside a Wal-Mart store in Poplar Bluff. The body of 50-year-old Stahl Sturgeon of Doniphan was found around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday inside a car on the store parking lot. Authorities say 33-year-old Joseph Wisdom was arrested inside the store…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – The Missouri Highway Patrol says a man wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of five people is in custody after a manhunt. The Highway Patrol told the Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1LQzrbu ) early Wednesday morning that Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino had been arrested in Montgomery County, Missouri. The newspaper reports…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers has prevailed over the leaders of both parties to approve deeper budget cuts to the University of Missouri. Lawmakers voted 83-75 Tuesday to transfer $1 million from the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus to Lincoln University in Jefferson City. The House speaker, majority floor…
(KTRS) Former University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click is appealing her firing, last month, over her role last year in race-related student protests. Click says her dismissal by university system curators was unfair. In firing Click, top university administrators cited her run-ins with police during October protests and with two student journalists weeks later…
(KTRS) – Police continue to search for a man connected five murders across Kansas and Missouri. Investigators want Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino for questioning regarding four murders in Kansas City, Kansas. Then today, police were called to a home in New Florence, Missouri. There they found 49-year-old Randy Nordman, and believe he may be Serrano-Victorino’s fifth…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Democrats are vowing to keep talking to block a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment granting greater religious protections to some business owners and individuals who object to gay marriage. Debate on the measure began around 4:20 p.m. Monday and stretched without a break into Tuesday. Some opponents vowed…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois legislators from both parties are continuing to fine-tune the state’s concealed carry law nearly three years after it was passed. The State Journal-Register reports that legislators have proposed including public transportation, interstate highway rest areas, public parks and athletic facilities as areas in which permit holders are allowed to carry…