JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans want to make it a crime for abortion clinic staff to ask ambulances to respond to calls at their facilities without sirens or lights, a move that abortion-rights advocates say is unnecessary and another veiled attempt to restrict access to abortion providers. The proposal would establish a misdemeanor…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Several voter rights advocacy groups say the state of Missouri is not following federal requirements on providing voter registrations. The League of Women Voters of Missouri and four other groups sent a letter Thursday to Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and to Joel Waters, director of the state Department…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has signed into law the so-called Blue Alert bill. The signing took place at the St. Louis Municipal Police Academy. The governor was flanked by members of local police departments who were injured in the line of duty … including former Ballwin Police Officer Michael Flamion, paralyzed when he was…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed legislation to make it tougher to prove workplace and housing discrimination in court. Greitens signed the measure late Friday. The legislation has been blasted by Democrats and groups such as the state NAACP. The Missouri NAACP last week cited the measure in issuing an advisory…
Pacific, MO (KTRS) A multi-agency resource center is opening today in Pacific to help victims of the recent flooding. This will be followed by other resource centers opening this week that will provide a one-stop shop for resources such as experts in housing and insurance as well as counseling services. Participating agencies include, the American Red…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Many top pro-business priorities of Republican Gov. Eric Greitens passed during his first legislative session, but campaign promises to ramp up ethics laws failed. Greitens’ biggest legislative successes of the annual session that ended Friday were on labor issues and changes aimed at making the state’s legal climate more business…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Kansas City, Missouri, man to be detained without bond on a passport fraud charge while the FBI investigates what the judge suggested was the native Somali’s “long-held goal to leave this country to join a foreign terrorist organization.” Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning Netflix consumers about at email phishing scam across the St. Louis and Southeast Missouri region. The warning appears three years after a BBB alert of bogus emails reported by two residents of Southeast Missouri. A new wave of fraudulent emails was falsely claimed by…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri task force has returned to Columbia after spending over a week aiding local agencies with flood response efforts in the southwest part of the state. The State Emergency Management Agency deployed the 25-member Missouri Task Force 1 for a search and rescue operation to West Plains on April 28.…
NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) — As rivers recede across much of Missouri after extensive flooding, victims will be able to get recovery help from response centers being set up in the state. The Missouri State Emergency Management Agency says it is helping coordinate what it calls “one-stop shops” for recovery services at makeshift resource centers. SEMA says…