( KTRS ) Missouri is among the majority of states the restrict access to original birth certificates for people who were adopted. Legislation scheduled for House committee vote Tuesday would change that. The Missouri Adoptee Rights Act would allow adoptees to access their birth certificates when they turn 18. Current law only allows adoptees to…
( KTRS ) Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation say they have reached an agreement to maintain existing service on state-supported routes while reducing costs. IDOT says the deal will maintain service through the end of the fiscal year on June 30, at a cost of $38.3 million to the state. The department paid…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker says he’s pleased that a colleague dropped a restraining order against him, but says the man was trying to hurt his reputation. Representative Courtney Allen Curtis confirmed Friday he dropped the restraining order against Representative Michael Butler. Curtis and Butler are St. Louis-area Democrats. Curtis says Butler…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A proposal to keep firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers appears to have little chance in Missouri. More than a dozen states have strengthened laws over the past two years on gun ownership for convicted domestic abusers, a rare area of consensus in the national gun debate. St.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation say they have reached an agreement to maintain existing service on state-supported routes while reducing costs. The deal announced Friday will maintain service through the end of the fiscal year on June 30 at a cost of $38.3 million to the state. The department…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker has dropped a restraining order he had obtained against a colleague with whom he says he got into a fistfight. Representative Courtney Allen Curtis confirmed Friday that he had dropped the action against Rep. Michael Butler. Curtis says Butler swung at him outside a union reception over…
The attorney general’s office argued that cities aren’t required to have a police department because they can contract services from other law enforcement agencies
(KTRS) – Plenty of questions after 40 elementary school students were taken to the hospital after complaints about an odor of natural gas. The fire department says that around 350 students from the Ames Visual and Performing Arts Elementary were evacuated. The students said they felt sick. Laclede Gas was called to the scene, but…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Several University of Missouri students are pressing the system’s governing board for faster reforms in diversity as the Columbia campus continues grappling with racial unrest punctuated by racial protests there last November. Black graduate student Timothy Love was among four students at the Columbia school who addressed the university’s curators during…
St. Louid, MO (KTRS) Major League Soccer in St. Louis looks promising. MLS Commissioner Don Garber told the “St. Louis Post Dispatch” that the league will begin searching for a stadium site in St. Louis and planning for its financing and operations immediately. Garber also said he would begin looking for potential owners. Garber however…