JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican lawmakers in Missouri will try again in 2016 to require voters to present photo identification at the polls. Lawmakers pre-filed measures to change the state constitution and state law to require photo ID for voting. Senate sponsor Will Kraus says photo ID could prevent fraud by individuals impersonating other…
( KTRS ) Heavy rain has pushed creeks and rivers out of their banks across Missouri, causing the deaths of at least six people. The National Weather Service on Sunday issued flash flood warnings for much of Missouri, where three to six inches of rain fell during the weekend. Up to four inches more rain…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri residents soon will no longer be able to use their state driver’s licenses as identification to get into most federal facilities. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter to Missouri stating that its exemption from federal Real ID requirements will come to an end Jan. 10.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Two small cities in suburban St. Louis have scrapped certain municipal court fees in response to critical state audits. Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway on Tuesday released audits of the Foristell and St. Ann courts. Her office found that Foristell, located in St. Charles and Warren counties, assessed a “potentially improper” $100…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s population growth is lagging behind the national rate. U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday estimate that Missouri’s population grew by fewer than 20,000 people from 2014 to 2015, to a total of 6.08 million people. That’s a growth rate of about three-tenths of a percent – well shy of the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Two small cities in suburban St. Louis have scrapped certain municipal court fees in response to critical state audits. Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway on Tuesday released audits of the Foristell and St. Ann courts. Her office found that Foristell, located in St. Charles and Warren counties, assessed a “potentially improper”…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former Missouri lawmaker has been appointed to a new judgeship in Clay County. Gov. Jay Nixon said Monday that he has appointed Tim Flook, of Liberty, to serve as an associate circuit judge in Clay County. Flook is a Republican who served in the Missouri House from 2005 through 2010.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker says he will try again to get his state on permanent daylight saving time, but his proposed measure calls for at least two neighboring states to do the same before it can go into effect. Republican state Rep. Mike Kelley of Springfield says it doesn’t make sense…
SIKESTON, Mo. (AP) – A 35-year-old southeast Missouri man is dead after being shot outside a liquor store, and police say they have identified a person of interest. The Southeast Missourian (http://bit.ly/1Zj8v6T ) reports officers found the Sikeston man shot in the chest and lying in the road after the incident, which happened around 5…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge is weighing whether to allow a Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic to keep its abortion license past December during a court battle over its licensure. Planned Parenthood’s Columbia clinic stopped providing medication-induced abortions last month because its doctor lost state-required hospital privileges. As a result, the state health…