Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Voters Deny Highway Funding; Officials Fear Rise in Fatalities
Aug 8 2014 // Missouri transportation officials warned of a potential rise in traffic fatalities and bridge closures, after voters defeated a sales tax hike that would have funded hundreds of highway and transportation projects across...
Home Depot Sued Over Joplin, Missouri, Tornado Deaths
Aug 6 2014 // A woman whose husband and two children were among eight people killed while taking cover in a Home Depot during the 2011 Joplin, Mo., tornado contends in a wrongful death lawsuit that the building was negligently...
Anthem to Return $7.8M to Missouri Policyholders in Market Conduct Settlement
Aug 4 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced it reached a regulatory settlement with Healthy Alliance Life Insurance Co. and HMO Missouri Inc., subsidiaries of Anthem BlueCross BlueShield of Missouri, which are part of...
Trucking Company Owner Pleads Guilty in Missouri to Cargo Theft Scheme
Aug 4 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo. Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Missouri Makes Insurer Filing Records Available to Public Online
Jul 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced the implementation of a new online tool that allows consumers to view insurance company filing records. Missouri becomes the fifth state to use SERFF Filing Access (SFA) to...
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Lightning Rod Insurance Scam
Jul 20 2014 // A 52-year-old Missouri man has been sentenced to probation in a lightning rod insurance scam that targeted elderly residents. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a release that Donald Anthony Moses of Neosho,...
Trucking Company Owner Pleads Guilty in Missouri to Cargo Theft Scheme
Jul 18 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo. Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Midwest Towns Hope Worst of Flood Is Behind Them
Jul 11 2014 // Officials in several Mississippi River towns were cautiously optimistic on July 10 that they’ll soon emerge from this year’s flood with relatively minor damage. Water levels were dropping in several places,...
‘Drafting Error’ Leads to Veto of Missouri Health Insurance Navigator Bill
Jul 9 2014 // Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation that would have limited who could work in the state as a health insurance guide and blamed a national conservative group for injecting an error into the model legislation. The...
Corps of Engineers Denies Causing Missouri River Floods
Jul 7 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shouldn’t be blamed for causing major flooding along the Missouri River that has affected five states regularly since 2006, the government says in its initial response to a...
Missouri Regulators Offer More Online Services to Insurance Producers
Jun 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that producers can now print their licenses and educational transcripts on demand through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) online State Based...
Missouri Court Tosses $240M Punitive Award from Smelter Lawsuit
Jun 19 2014 // A Missouri appeals court has thrown out $240 million in punitive damages awarded to 16 eastern Missouri residents who sued over health problems from the Herculaneum lead smelter. A jury awarded the damages against former...
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Arson, Insurance Fraud
Jun 16 2014 // A western Missouri man has admitted leading a conspiracy to buy cheap houses and set them on fire to collect nearly $435,000 in insurance benefits. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 27-year-old Joshua Stamps, of...
Missouri Company Fined $100K for Federal Safety Violations
Jun 12 2014 // A St. Louis County construction company faces more than $100,000 in fines after a federal agency investigating a serious workplace injury found multiple safety violations. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
New Missouri Laws Expand Paperless Options, Insurance Protections
Jun 11 2014 // Under new laws signed by Gov. Jay Nixon, Missourians now have more paperless options when receiving policy information from their insurance companies, and commercial property owners will see expanded insurance protections,...
Number of Defective School Buses in Missouri Rising
Jun 6 2014 // The percentage of school buses failing state inspections is on the rise in Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says slightly fewer than 85 percent of the roughly 12,000 school buses it inspected this year were...
Kansas Man Sentenced for Defrauding Missouri Insurance Fund
Jun 5 2014 // A Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a $1.3 million fraud involving a Missouri fund for cleaning up leaking petroleum tanks. Robert Fine II was sentenced on June 3 after pleading guilty last...
Midwest Hit by Damaging Hail Storms, Tornadoes
Jun 5 2014 // Baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and cars in Nebraska and Iowa on June 2 as powerful thunderstorms moved through a swath of Midwest states, also causing severe flooding and prompting reports of tornadoes. The National...
Missouri High School Team to Skip Bass Tournament Due to Insurance Troubles
May 28 2014 // Concerns about insurance requirements will keep a southwest Missouri high school team from participating in the first high school bass pro fishing tournament in June. Nixa High School anglers won’t be part of the...
Missouri Legislature OKs Criminal Checks for Health Advisers
May 23 2014 // Despite a federal court order against their current law, Missouri legislators voted to toughen requirements even further for people seeking to work as insurance guides under President Barack Obama’s health care...
