ST. LOUIS (AP) A longtime Missouri death row inmate whose conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of two sisters was overturned has pleaded guilty to murdering them and been re-sentenced to life behind bars. Reginald Clemons, who spent 22 years on death row, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of second-degree murder and other crimes.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Rams are long gone from St. Louis, but they still may owe more than $350,000 in taxes to the state of Missouri. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a ruling from an administrative hearing that determined the NFL team did not have to pay state sales tax on…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court says a man convicted of murder as a teenager and sentenced to life in prison deserves a resentencing. Supreme Court judges on Tuesday ruled 5-1 that Jason Carr’s sentence violates his rights against cruel and unusual punishment. Carr was convicted in 1983 of killing his brother,…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) The city of St. Louis’s minimum wage could rise to $10 an hour starting next week and to $11 next year, now that the state’s highest court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding it. The Missouri Supreme Court in February rejected claims by business groups that setting a wage higher than the state’s $7.65 one…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court says that a woman running a dog kennel can’t sue dog advocacy groups for defamation. The court on Thursday unanimously upheld a circuit court decision dismissing a defamation lawsuit filed by dog kennel owner Mary Ann Smith against dog advocacy groups. Smith sued the groups over…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House members have voted in favor of undoing a recent court decision allowing St. Louis to raise its minimum wage. The GOP-led House in a voice vote Wednesday gave initial approval to the bill, which would block cities from adopting higher minimum wages than Missouri’s. The bill needs another…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled the state can recoup around $50 million in lost tobacco settlement money. The 4-0 decision was reached Tuesday. At dispute was money guaranteed to Missouri and 45 other states through a 1998 settlement with major tobacco manufacturers. The settlement is aimed at covering the…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Supreme Court says voters will get to decide whether to raise cigarette taxes to benefit early childhood programs. The high court ruled on Tuesday that the proposal will stay on the November ballot. The measure would phase in a 60-cent-per-pack increase of the state’s lowest-in-the-nation tobacco taxes. It also…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a woman who did not tell her sexual partner that she was HIV-positive. The court on Tuesday unanimously dismissed the woman’s challenge to Missouri’s law requiring people who are HIV-positive to inform others before sex or other activities that could expose…
( KTRS ) Missouri is set to execute a man convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer during a robbery in Columbia in 1994. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die today and would be the seventh person put to death in Missouri this year. Johnson had part of a benign brain…