Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri’s M&T Insurance Agency Merges With Powers Insurance & Risk Management
Nov 17 2022 // M&T Insurance Agency recently merged with Powers Insurance & Risk Management, one of the largest family owned and operated independent insurance agencies in the bi-state region. M&T Insurance agency owner Mark...
Carolina Agent, Missouri Attorneys Indicted on Tax, Insurance Fraud Charges
Nov 17 2022 // Two Missouri tax attorneys and a North Carolina insurance agent have been indicted for helping clients set up fraudulent tax shelters, file false tax returns and to defraud an insurance carrier, federal prosecutors...
No Radioactive Contamination Found at Missouri School
Nov 10 2022 // FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) – Testing by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found no radioactive contamination at a Missouri school that was shut down last month amid fears that nuclear material from a contaminated creek nearby...
EPA Seeking Penalties for Clean Water Act Violations in Missouri, Nebraska
Nov 8 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Michael Zahner of Bollinger County, Missouri, and Mark Schmidt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, to take immediate steps to comply with the federal Clean Water...
$6M Awarded in Missouri Asbestos Suit Against Ford, Others
Nov 3 2022 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman’s death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust...
Missouri State Employee Indicted for Stealing $140K in Unemployment Insurance Funds
Nov 2 2022 // A Missouri state employee has been indicted on three federal felony charges and accused of using her position to send about $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others. According to the...
Missouri Amusement Park Train Derailment Injures 7
Oct 28 2022 // Seven people suffered what were described as minor injuries after an amusement park train derailed in Branson, Missouri. The derailment happened Wednesday evening at Silver Dollar City. Six patrons and one employee were...
Missouri Town ‘Devastated’ by Wildfire
Oct 26 2022 // WOOLDRIDGE, Mo. (AP) – Roughly half of a small Missouri town burned Saturday after a wildfire spread quickly from a farm field and destroyed or heavily damaged 23 buildings, officials said. No one died and only one...
Missouri Arbitrator: Firefighter Lied About Fatal Crash
Oct 25 2022 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An arbitrator ruled that a Kansas City firefighter lied to police after he drove through a red light and crashed into several vehicles, killing three people last year. Judge Miles Sweeney said in...
Investigation Uncovers Significant Radioactive Waste at Missouri Elementary School
Oct 18 2022 // FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental...
Mom Whose Son’s Death Led to Missouri Jail Reforms Wins $1.2 Million Settlement
Oct 10 2022 // A mother whose son died less than an hour after he was transported from a Missouri jail to a state prison has won a $1.2 million settlement in a case that helped lead to suspensions, firings and reforms. The St. Louis...
Man Charged With Damaging Historic Missouri Home of Composer Scott Joplin
Oct 6 2022 // A man was charged Tuesday with breaking into the historic home of ragtime composer Scott Joplin and causing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. Thirty-eight-year-old Kevin Daley-Bey faces one count each of...
Keystone to Add Bainswest Agencies in Oklahoma, Missouri
Oct 5 2022 // Keystone welcomed a group of Bainswest agencies from Oklahoma and Missouri to its network of growing agencies across the nation, effective January 1, 2023. Bainswest formed in Tulsa, OK in 1994. Bainswest ranks No. 18 in...
Missouri Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Recreational Pot Suit
Sep 15 2022 // The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up a lawsuit challenging a ballot proposal to legalize recreational marijuana use in the state. The Tuesday ruling means the proposed constitutional amendment will be...
Risk Strategies Acquires Missouri’s Beattie & Associates
Sep 15 2022 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced it has acquired Beattie & Associates, a retail agency in Missouri specializing in employee benefits for both individuals and...
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Missouri Recreational Pot Measure
Sep 13 2022 // A Missouri judge last week tossed out a lawsuit that sought to knock a recreational marijuana proposal off the Nov. 8 ballot. The measure would allow those ages 21 and older to buy and grow marijuana for personal...
Missouri Collision Between Car and Horse and Buggy Leaves 5 Injured
Sep 1 2022 // Five people were injured when a car struck a horse and buggy southeast of Kansas City during the weekend, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. A vehicle driven by a 71-year-old man hit the back of the buggy on Saturday...
Lawsuit Filed to Take Recreational Marijuana off Missouri Ballot
Aug 24 2022 // An anti-drug group on Monday announced support for a lawsuit to take a recreational marijuana legalization proposal off Missouri’s November ballot. Jefferson City resident Joy Sweeney filed the lawsuit Friday with...
Missouri Home Explosion Death Toll Grows to 3
Aug 22 2022 // A young mother is the third member of her family to die in a gas explosion at her Missouri home, authorities said last Friday. Myranda Gale Golden, 22, was hurt Monday when her home in the far southern Missouri town of...
AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Missouri’s Cameron Mutual
Aug 19 2022 // AM Best has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bb” (Fair) from “bb+” (Fair) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B (Fair) of Cameron Mutual Insurance...
