By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s top transportation official warned a House committee Tuesday that the failure to pass a penny increase in the state’s sales tax… Read more »
Tag: Missouri
Panel mulls proposal over Nixon’s budget power
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri House committee is considering legislation to curb the governor’s budget power. A constitutional amendment proposed by House Republican Todd Richardson would let the… Read more »
Mo. House panel backs 72-hour abortion wait period
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri women would have to wait 72 hours to have an abortion after initially seeing a doctor under legislation endorsed by a state House committee…. Read more »
Missouri executes man after appeals denied
(BONNE TERRE, Mo., AP) — In 1991, Herbert Smulls called jeweler Stephen Honickman and set up an appointment to meet at his store in suburban St. Louis. He said he… Read more »
Scheduled Missouri execution temporarily stayed
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on two petitions regarding Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, The Missouri Attorney General’s… Read more »
Swimmer’s death casts light on campus sex assaults
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The case of a former University of Missouri swimmer claimed she was raped in an episode that her parents say led to… Read more »
Mo. Senate adopts gun law nullification bill
By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A state Senate committee dismissed warnings from a Missouri doctor that nullifying federal gun laws would lead to greater firearms access and,… Read more »
States consider reviving old-fashioned executions
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back… Read more »
Mo. Senate mulls voter ID laws again
By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri Senate panel heard legislation Monday that would require voters to show photo identification at polling places amid warnings from the… Read more »
Mo. attorney general investigating propane prices
By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Monday that his office will launch an investigation into rising propane prices following calls from a… Read more »