Automatic weapons and weapon parts, including silencers, have gone missing from the Christian County Sheriff’s Department, according to the interim sheriff. Interim Sheriff Dwight McNiel said in a new report that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is ...
Read More »Effort starts to fight Kansas City’s new minimum wage law
A group of business associations has started a petition drive to try to force a referendum election aimed at overturning Kansas City’s new minimum wage law. The Kansas City Star reports the group has until Aug. 25 to gather about ...
Read More »Nixon calls for ethics law changes after 2 lawmakers resign
Missouri’s Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that state ethics laws need to be revamped in light of accusations that led to the resignations of two state lawmakers this year. Nixon criticized the culture of the Capitol during remarks at ...
Read More »US home prices rose 4.9 pct. in May, lifted by strong sales
U.S. home prices rose steadily in May, pushed higher by a healthy increase in sales this year. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index increased 4.9 percent in May from 12 months earlier, down slightly from a 5 percent ...
Read More »House backs bill to help vets who’ve suffered sexual assault
Veterans who suffered sexual assault or other sexual abuse while in uniform would get help more easily from the Department of Veterans Affairs under a bill approved Monday by the House. The bill would allow a statement by a survivor ...
Read More »GOP House chairman calls on Obama to remove IRS commissioner
The Republican chairman of a powerful House committee called for the removal of the IRS commissioner Monday, saying he has obstructed congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, sent a letter Monday to President Barack ...
Read More »Normandy woman charged in boyfriend’s fatal stabbing
A woman has been charged in the fatal stabbing of her live-in boyfriend in Normandy following an argument. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 23-year-old Keina Jackson was charged Saturday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Police said Jackson stabbed ...
Read More »Man accused of using $476K in employer’s funds for strippers
An Arizona man is accused in a federal indictment of defrauding his St. Louis-area employer by misusing a company credit card to charge nearly a half million dollars, much of it to lavish upon online exotic dancers. Forty-year-old John David ...
Read More »Mental health experts respond carefully to mass killings
One psychiatry professor calls it “the conversation we’re stuck with,” a teachable moment growing out of horror. Each time mental illness is cited as a possible factor in a high-profile mass killing, there’s a collective sigh among mental health professionals. ...
Read More »Theater shooting: No red flags reported at time of gun sale
John Russell Houser’s mental problems were well known to many, though perhaps not to the store that sold him the .40-caliber handgun used in a deadly attack on a Louisiana movie theater. A federal background check came back clean, the ...
Read More »Missouri governor’s race no mirror of White House contest
A well-known and well-funded Democrat, opposite a field loaded with an array of Republican candidates. The contest to become Missouri’s next governor may seem similar to the White House race, but experts say important differences will affect it. Missouri Attorney ...
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