Missouri official’s community, funny hats help to clinch ‘America’s Favorite...
A mid-Missouri man who wears several hats, both figuratively and literally, is this year’s winner of America’s Favorite Crossing Guard through SafeKids.org. Lyn Woolford has been a crossing guard at...
View ArticleTroubled St. Louis County daycare faces possible closure
Missouri has taken steps that could close a St. Louis County daycare by March 31 where security video reportedly shows an employee tossing a three-year-old against a cabinet. The worker in the February...
View ArticleSouthern Missouri church pastor fired, allegedly admits to sexual acts with a...
The pastor at the First Assembly of God church in southern Missouri’s Mountain View has been charged with alleged sexual abuse of a teenage girl. Online court records indicate 45-year-old Gregory Reese...
View ArticleMissouri legislator proposes bill intended to keep kids off of porn sites
A Missouri Senate committee is considering whether to make internet providers block children from getting onto obscene websites. Sen. Ed Emery, a Republican from southwest Missouri’s Lamar, is...
View ArticleControversial Missouri daycare files appeal in attempt to remain open
A St. Louis-area daycare has appealed the state’s intentions of closing the place after security video released last month showed a worker throwing a three-year-old against a cabinet. An employee at...
View ArticleMissouri diocese accused of withholding information about priest under...
Victims of clergy abuse say the Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City has not gone far enough to tell the public about a priest under investigation for alleged “boundary violations” involving minors....
View ArticleSecond half of Missouri’s 2019 legislative session starts Monday
Charter school expansion and sports wagering legislation are two of the key issues that Missouri House members are expected to tackle during the 2019 session’s second half in Jefferson City. Lawmakers...
View ArticleGovernor Parson to sign Cloria Brown Highway bill on Monday at Capitol
Missouri’s governor is scheduled to sign legislation Monday afternoon in Jefferson City that honors a former state lawmaker who died about a year ago. Legislation designating a section of highway in...
View ArticleMissouri’s governor signs Cloria Brown Highway legislation into law
Legislation designating a section of highway in St. Louis County as the “Cloria Brown Memorial Highway” was signed into law by Missouri Governor Mike Parson Monday afternoon in Jefferson City....
View ArticleFormer Mizzou broadcaster Bill Wilkerson to be inducted into St. Louis Media...
A veteran award-winning newsman who was the longtime radio voice of the Mizzou football Tigers will be inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame Saturday evening. Saturday’s gala begins at 6:45...
View ArticleHaahr and Franks disappointed in each other over Missouri summer jobs bill...
Tensions were high on the Missouri House floor in Jefferson City last week, when members voted 81-56 against a $4 million summer jobs program. The vote came after discussion about a January KMOV-TV...
View ArticleMissouri lawmakers respond, after daycare tries to open next to facility with...
Legislation that would allow Missouri officials to reject a daycare facility’s license application if it’s too close to sex offenders has the backing of a Sedalia nursing home with 17 registered sex...
View ArticleConvicted killer Craig Wood’s attorney: “Missouri’s death penalty scheme is...
The Missouri Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday morning in Jefferson City in the case of a prisoner appealing his death sentence for killing a Springfield girl five years ago. 51-year-old...
View ArticleMissouri Supreme Court hears arguments in Wood death penalty case
The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Jefferson City in the case of a prisoner who’s appealing his death sentence for killing a Springfield child in 2014. 51-year-old Craig Wood...
View ArticleResidents young and old pack Missouri River town to see aging bridge come...
A few thousand people turned out Thursday in eastern Missouri’s Washington to see crews demolish the 83-year-old bridge over the Missouri River. Reporter Chris Dieckhaus at Missourinet Warrenton...
View ArticleMissouri Board of Education votes to return control of St. Louis Public...
The state Board of Education has unanimously voted in favor of restoring control of St. Louis Public Schools to an elected board – dissolving the current appointed board on June 30. An appointed board...
View ArticleFathers of Springfield murderer and victim urge Missouri lawmakers to pass...
The Missouri House and Senate have approved similar bills that would require Missouri’s Amber Alert System Oversight Committee to meet at least annually. Supporters hope to get a bill on the governor’s...
View ArticleThis year’s national spelling bee to include more Missouri students than in 2018
Seventeen Missouri students will spell all sorts of complicated words during next month’s 92nd annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Last year, Missouri had 15 spellers compete in the contest. The...
View ArticlePDMP could go to Missouri Senate floor for debate this week (AUDIO)
The Missouri Senate Majority Leader says prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation could hit the Senate floor in Jefferson City this week. Missouri is the only state in the nation without...
View ArticleRazer calls on Missouri House Speaker to help pass sexual orientation bill
Legislation that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to Missouri’s Human Rights statute is scheduled to be heard Wednesday by a House committee in Jefferson City. House Speaker Elijah Haahr,...
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