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Two individuals arrested by Bootheel Task Force
(02/08/10)
Two individuals, one who admitted to selling methamphetamine in Steele, Mo., for the past four years, were recently arrested for manufacturing of a controlled substance after an investigation by Steele police officers and agents of the Bootheel Drug Task Force...
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State News
Truman State provost named president
(02/08/10) KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- Truman State University provost Troy Paino is the school's new president. The selection, announced Monday, makes official a decision put in place two months ago when Paino was designated the finalist. He will start his new job May 10...
'Science Friday' headed to St. Louis
(02/08/10) ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The National Public Radio program "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," hosted by Ira Flatow, is coming to St. Louis next month. The show's March 12 episode will be broadcast live from the Saint Louis Science Center in front of a live audience...
Analysis: Teachers back Sen. Jason Crowell's efforts to curb tax credits
(02/08/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some Republican senators seeking to rein in Missouri's expansive tax credit system have a new ally: Teachers. The alliance is a reflection of Missouri's new budget reality. Scarce dollars are forcing advocacy groups to pay ever-greater attention to their self-interests...
Fifth SW Mo. suspect charged in bungled kidnapping
(02/08/10) NEVADA, Mo. (AP) -- Another southwest Missouri suspect has been charged in the abduction of the wrong New Jersey man. Fifty-five-year-old Roy A. Slates faces one count each of concealing a felony and hindering prosecution in Vernon County Circuit Court. The Joplin Globe reported he posted $5,000 bond and was released this past week...
Missouri man charged with setting Wal-Mart fire
(02/08/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A mid-Missouri man has been charged with setting fire to the paper towl aisle at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jefferson City while holding a child. The Jefferson City News Tribune reported that 18-year-old Henry Medina of Holts Summit faces one count each of second-degree arson, misdemeanor stealing and misdemeanor child endangerment...
Kansas City's Boulevard Brewing sees increase in St. Louis sales
(02/07/10) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It's still a tiny bubble to the king of beers, but Boulevard Brewing of Kansas City attributes a surge in St. Louis sales to local frothing over foreign ownership. In the year since InBev, a Belgian-based brewing company, bought Anheuser-Busch, Boulevard has not only gained bragging rights as Missouri's largest home-based brewery but has seen its grocery sales increase 26 percent in the St. Louis market...
Couple gets probation in pet food case
(02/07/10) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Las Vegas-based company and its owners have been sentenced to three years' probation for distributing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food. Federal prosecutors in Kansas City say 43-year-old Sally Qing Miller and 57-year-old Stephen S. Miller also must pay a $5,000 fine, and their company, Chemnutra Inc., must pay $25,000...
St. Louis girl dies in house fire
(02/07/10) ST. LOUIS -- A 10-year-old girl has died in a fire that destroyed her St. Louis home. The fire that killed Tegan McCall started early Saturday either in the basement or on the first floor. The cause of the blaze is unknown. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the girl's 13-year-old sister was rescued through a second-story window. Tegan's parents and two brothers, ages 6 and 17, escaped by going from a third-story window onto a flat second-story roof...
Amber Alert issued for missing Carthage 8-month-old boy
(02/05/10) CARTHAGE, Mo. -- Carthage police are looking for an 8-month-old boy taken from his home by two masked men. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for Eddie Salazar after he was taken Thursday night. He is about 20 pounds, with dark hair and brown eyes. Carthage police say two men wearing all black and ski masks broke into the family's home while the father was sleeping on the couch. The father was beaten unconscious and the house was ransacked before the boy was taken... 
Kezer: Struggles persist for exonerated inmates in Mo.
(02/04/10)COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri man who spent nearly 15 years in prison before he was cleared of murder said he and hundreds of other exonerated inmates struggle amid an often unshakable stigma and little help from the states that stole so many years of their lives...
Missouri House OKs drug testing for state officeholders
(02/04/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's elected officials and many people who receive cash welfare benefits would start undergoing drug screening under legislation given first-round House approval Thursday. 
Missouri again leads nation in meth labs seized
(02/04/10)ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Even as communities and states keep coming up with ways to make it harder to manufacture methamphetamine, makers of the dangerous and addictive drug keep finding ways around them.
Trial over hog odors opens in Kansas City
(02/04/10) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Fourteen rural northwest Missouri residents who received $100,000 apiece in a 1999 lawsuit against Premium Standard Farms are asking a Jackson County jury to give them more money for what they say are intolerable smells coming from an 80,000-head hog confinement in Gentry County...
Gov. Nixon withdraws more than 80 appointments
(02/04/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has withdrawn more than 80 appointments, including three who have faced trouble winning approval from the Republican-controlled chamber. Appointments for former Democratic Party chairman John Temporiti to the Missouri Housing Development Commission; former House member Bill Ransdall to the state Tax Commission; and former House member Phil Smith to the Administrative Hearing Commission ran into trouble...
Federal grand jury may resume Missouri politics probe in March
(02/04/10) KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A federal grand jury that apparently is looking at the link between political contributions and Missouri legislation has wrapped up for the week. But its work may not be done. Grand jurors in Kansas City ended a two-day session Wednesday without any indictments in a pay-for-play probe involving former House speaker Rod Jetton and legislation regulating the adult entertainment industry. The grand jury is scheduled to meet again March 9...
Missouri Senate approves child autism coverage bill
(02/04/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate gave initial approval Wednesday to legislation that would require insurance providers to cover treatments for autistic children. The measure would require insurance companies to pay up to $55,000 for behavioral treatment until an autistic child reaches the age of 21...
State chief justice urges new method for crime fight
(02/04/10) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri wastes considerable money by putting nonviolent offenders in prison and mishandling those convicted of drug and alcohol crimes, Chief Justice William Ray Price told state lawmakers Wednesday while urging a new crime-fighting strategy...
Mo. senator testifies on porn bill and Jetton's role
(02/03/10) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri senator who testified before a federal grand jury Tuesday said political donations from the adult entertainment industry contributed to the demise of a bill that would have imposed new taxes and regulations on sexually oriented businesses...
Mo. schools seek legal loophole to protect students
(02/03/10) COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Missouri school superintendents who want to keep troubled teachers from returning to the classroom said Tuesday they feel hamstrung by rules that restrict them from sharing information on why teachers lose their jobs. The legislature is considering a measure that would give civil immunity to local districts and employees who share more detailed employment histories of job-hunting teachers. Similar proposals have fallen short the past two years...
Superintendents seek change in teacher discipline
(02/02/10) COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri school superintendents who want to keep troubled teachers from returning to the classroom said Tuesday they feel hamstrung by rules that restrict them from sharing information on why teachers lose their jobs.
Kennedy Center takes arts education program to Mo.
(02/02/10) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is expanding a program to ensure the arts remain part of education in a Missouri school district. The Washington-based arts center will link local arts groups in Springfield, Mo., with the public schools to help teach students in grades K-8. Organizers announced their plans Tuesday...
Leaders to discuss Mo.'s educational climate
(02/02/10) COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster will join state and local leaders for a discussion of educational issues. The University of Missouri says it will host the discussion at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Donald W. Reynolds Alumni Center...
Fish oil shows promise in preventing psychosis
(02/02/10) CHICAGO -- Fish oil pills may be able to save some young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia, according to a preliminary but first-of-its-kind study. The Austrian study of just 81 patients comes from leaders in the field of youth mental health and adds to evidence suggesting severe mental illness might be prevented with the right intervention... 
Conservative lawmakers seeking to ban mandatory health insurance
(02/02/10)JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Although President Barack Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance... |
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