( KTRS ) The Missouri House has passed a bill to bar city and county officials from setting traffic-ticket quotas for police departments. House members tacked on a number of additional provisions to the bill before passing it Monday, that means it will head back to the Senate. The bill is aimed at stopping public officials…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republicans’ decadelong effort to require people to show photo identification when voting has cleared a major hurtle. Senate Democrats allowed a bill and a constitutional amendment to get initial approval Monday after about a month of stalling. Republicans agreed to allow people without photo ID to cast a ballot…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is weighing a number of tax breaks for businesses as the session wraps up. Proposed tax breaks range from a package of small business incentives to an exemption for farmers who raise deer to sell their urine. The small business proposal is close to passage. Businesses with…
( KTRS ) The Bridgeton Police Department has issued an Endangered Silver Advisory Alert for a missing elderly woman. 71 yr old Delores Robinson, was last seen walking eastbound on foot from a Kohl’s department store on St. Charles Rock Road. Authorities report that Ms. Robinson suffers from dementia. She was last seen wearing a…
BALLWIN, Mo. (AP) — Donald Trump has complained about a “rigged” political system, and after Missouri’s congressional district conventions, some of his supporters agree with him. The New York businessman narrowly defeated Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Missouri’s presidential primary on March 15, earning 37 of the state’s 52 delegates to the Republican National Convention…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a mid-year increase to Missouri’s budget that adds more than $460 million in spending to the state’s current $26 billion budget. Nixon on Friday approved the additional spending, of which more than $150 comes from the federal government. Most of the additional spending will go…
( KTRS ) A measure to allow beer-makers to lease coolers to stores to keep drinks frosty has passed the Missouri House. House members voted in favor of adding the provision onto a bill that already had Senate approval. The underlying bill would allow a state wine board to oversee marketing of the beverage. Supporters…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Missouri state Sen. Dan Brown is dropping out of the race for state treasurer. Brown said in a statement Thursday he’s endorsing fellow Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt, who now faces no primary challenger. Brown says it’s important for Republicans to win in November. Brown, of Rolla, was a surprise…
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) – The U.S. government says the owner of a burning suburban St. Louis landfill near buried radioactive waste has agreed to new measures meant to slow and help monitor the blaze. Environmental Protection Agency regional chief Mark Hague said Thursday that Republic Services will install temperature monitors and cooling loops, which are…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A proposal to require Missouri voters to show photo ID at polling places is stalled in the state Senate. Democrats filibustered the bill for about six hours Wednesday night. The Senate paused its business shortly after midnight for lawmakers to meet off the floor, and the chamber adjourned early Thursday…