JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers has prevailed over the leaders of both parties to approve deeper budget cuts to the University of Missouri. Lawmakers voted 83-75 Tuesday to transfer $1 million from the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus to Lincoln University in Jefferson City. The House speaker, majority floor…
(KTRS) Former University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click is appealing her firing, last month, over her role last year in race-related student protests. Click says her dismissal by university system curators was unfair. In firing Click, top university administrators cited her run-ins with police during October protests and with two student journalists weeks later…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Ferguson is closer to resolving a civil rights lawsuit with the U.S. Justice Department. The City Council in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown sparked unrest gave a first reading Tuesday to a measure that would approve an agreement with the Justice Department. The deal…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Democrats are vowing to keep talking to block a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment granting greater religious protections to some business owners and individuals who object to gay marriage. Debate on the measure began around 4:20 p.m. Monday and stretched without a break into Tuesday. Some opponents vowed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Missouri law that protects children from abuse by other children has spurred hundreds of hotline calls since it was enacted in August. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1X77YTJ ) reports that the law mandates the Children’s Division to perform family assessments when it receives child abuse hotline calls alleging inappropriate sexual…
( KTRS ) The Ferguson City Council is expected to reconsider approving a deal to overhaul the city’s police and court systems, a move that could help the St. Louis suburb end a costly lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice. Mayor James Knowles III says the council is expected to give a first reading…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Movie director Spike Lee visits the University of Missouri campus to work on an ESPN documentary about the football team’s threatened boycott last fall. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/1TFS1pS) reports Lee was in town on Saturday night to attend a screening of the student-made documentary “Concerned Student 1950 at the True/False…
( KTRS ) Missouri Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster says the state should not require police to wear body cameras. Koster says he wants to see more police use body cameras, but he would hesitate to institute a statewide mandate for them, adding that the decision should be left to local governments…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver to read or send text messages on the road. Missouri currently bans people younger than 22…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Scientists say the discovery of two young black carp in a ditch connected to the Mississippi River is a troubling sign for native species in the river. Adult black carp have been caught in the Mississippi River before. But the Missouri Department of Conservation says the discovery near Cape Girardeau…