JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri delegate to the Republican National Convention is part of a coalition seeking to block Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination. Carl Bearden, of St. Charles, is a former Missouri co-chairman of the presidential campaign of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Bearden was elected to attend the national…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has turned down appeals of a ruling changing the ballot summary for a tobacco tax initiative. The court Thursday denied an appeal made by the sponsors of the initiative. On Wednesday, it denied a similar request made on behalf of Secretary of State Jason Kander, whose…
( KTRS ) A new Missouri law will require the state’s Social Services Department to have a third party review welfare rolls. Gov. Jay Nixon said he’ll let the law take effect without his signature. Thursday was Nixon’s deadline to sign or veto bills. The measure on welfare was the most significant bill that remained on…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis man is accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, then wounding a police officer in subsequent gunfire. St. Louis prosecutors charged 40-year-old Maurice Hoskins on Thursday with two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of armed criminal action and two counts of assault against a…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s public defender agency is suing over what it calls Gov. Jay Nixon’s unconstitutional decision to withhold $3.5 million in funds for defending the indigent. The Missouri State Public Defender system and the state’s Public Defender Commission filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Cole County. The plaintiffs allege that Nixon has…
(KTRS) – A St. Louis county man will spend the next 20 years in prison for supplying the heroin to someone who later overdosed. The victim in this case was the girlfriend of Jerry Harvey’s 17-year-old son. Katherine Culley was found unresponsive in November 2014, the morning after Harvey gave her the heroin. The judge…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An ad by a Missouri attorney general candidate that’s drawing criticism accuses fellow Republican contender Josh Hawley of working for terrorists. GOP Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s campaign last week announced the ad attacking University of Missouri School of Law associate professor Hawley. Schaefer’s latest ad cites Hawley’s work at the Becket…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over a proposed cigarette tax hike after a Missouri appeals court panel changed the wording that voters would see on the November ballot. The appeals panel ruled late last week that the initiative’s summary was insufficient, because it failed to say a new fee…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – For 50 years, an unsolved mystery in St. Louis centered around who piloted the small plane that flew through the legs of the newly-completed Gateway Arch in 1966. A suburban St. Louis woman says it was her father. The 630-foot tall monument was newly completed when, on June 22, 1966, a small…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s GOP candidates for governor are weighing in on policies that would affect LGBT people. The Republican candidates are businessman John Brunner, former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens, former U.S. attorney and House speaker Catherine Hanaway and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. The four decried guidance from Democratic President Barack Obama’s…