(CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., AP) — Three people are facing municipal charges in the southeast Missouri town of Cape Girardeau after walking into a mall while openly displaying guns. The incident… Read more »
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St. Pat’s parades proceed amid tension over gays
JONATHAN LEMIRE and MEGHAN BARR (NEW YORK, AP) — A weekend of St. Patrick’s Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations was culminating Monday… Read more »
Bill seeks lower bar for Sunshine Law enforcement
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Running afoul of Missouri’s open government laws could carry a smaller financial penalty but no longer require proof the law knowingly was… Read more »
Middle school students qualify for state math contest
Fifteen students from WarrensburgMiddle School joined more than 75 participants in the region at the recent regional math contest held in Clinton. The Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics sponsored… Read more »
Mo. House passes performance funding for colleges
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The Missouri House has passed legislation that would implement performance-based funding for public universities and community colleges. Under the bill, the schools would work with… Read more »
Apartments where firefighter died to be razed
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The University of Missouri says it will demolish an apartment complex where a Columbia firefighter died Feb. 22 when a walkway collapsed. University Chancellor R. Bowen… Read more »
Death of man in trash pile apparently accidental
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City police say the death of a man whose body was found at a recycling warehouse apparently was accidental. The man was identified as… Read more »
Searchers scour rubble after gas explosion kills 7
By JAKE PEARSON and JONATHAN LEMIRE (NEW YORK, AP) — Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies overnight from the rubble of two Manhattan… Read more »
Proposed minimum wage hike advances in Missouri
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A state Senate committee has advanced legislation that could raise Missouri’s minimum wage to $10 an hour. Tuesday’s vote by a Senate business committee means… Read more »
Mo. House endorses parental rights amendment
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s House has endorsed a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would enshrine a fundamental right for parents to raise their children as they… Read more »