(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A University of Missouri-Columbia crisis center received nearly 100 reports of campus sex assaults in 2012, but only two students were punished for such offenses, a… Read more »
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Mo. hospital chain: Smoking workers not wanted
(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — Smokers shouldn’t bother applying to Springfield-based hospital chain CoxHealth. CoxHealth President and CEO Steve Edwards announced Friday that potential employees will soon have to pass a… Read more »
A look at Missouri’s online health exchange
The Associated Press People can begin enrolling Tuesday for health coverage through a new online insurance marketplace created under the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act signed by President Barack Obama…. Read more »
Public to pick 2 for Hall of Famous Missourians
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A physician credited as the father of osteopathic medicine, a U.S. senator who helped end slavery and a suffragist who took… Read more »
Texas Gov. Rick Perry promotes group in Mo.
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. CHARLES, Mo., AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited Missouri Friday for the second time in a month, this time broadening his previous efforts to… Read more »
Mo. lawmaker pleads guilty to marijuana charges
By CHRIS BLANK (COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A Missouri lawmaker pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia Friday during a brief hearing in a central Missouri courtroom. Democratic Rep…. Read more »
Ed. chief won’t recommend KC accreditation boost
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s top education official announced Thursday that she won’t recommend that the Kansas City school district regain partial accreditation, a change that… Read more »
Fall enrollment is up 5.2 percent at UCM
(WARRENSBURG, Mo., AP) — The University of Central Missouri is seeing record enrollment. The Warrensburg school says the total student population was nearly 12,500 students this fall, a 5.2 percent… Read more »
Federal appeals court upholds Mo. liquor laws
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a Missouri law from the Prohibition era that requires state residency for alcohol wholesalers. KWMU-FM reports that the… Read more »
Workers’ comp costs could rise for Mo. businesses
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri businesses could face significantly higher costs for workers’ compensation insurance next year, due partly to a new law that seeks… Read more »