Missouri senators are looking at changing a state-created insurance company after an audit criticized the firm’s operations and expenses. State Auditor Tom Schweich called for the legislature to investigate whether the tax-exempt status of Missouri Employees Mutual Insurance Co. should …
Several Missouri lawmakers want to add requirements for officials involved in economic development projects. A House panel heard testimony on eight measures aimed at increasing scrutiny of businesses that ask for government money. The legislation would require local governments to …
Just days after the 200th anniversary of a series of massive earthquakes in southeast Missouri, residents woke up on Feb. 21 to a rumbling reminder that they live in one of the continent’s most active seismic areas. The U.S. Geological …
A judge gave the maximum sentence possible to a man who admitted to setting fire to an office complex in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Twenty-six-year-old Mark K. Carleton was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty last month …
A former director of Missouri’s insurance department has been named acting director of the Kansas City regional office of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Jay Angoff is taking over the position following the resignation of Judy Baker, a …
One worked in financial services. Another was an insurance agent. A third had recently finished law school and embarked on a legal career. Then came the tornado. The twister that blasted an immense hole in this Missouri city almost nine …
Despite several lawmakers voicing fears about reversing decades of hard-fought civil rights gains, the Missouri House approved a measure that would change the rules for workplace discrimination cases heard in state court. The bill would require workers who bring wrongful …
On February 6, 2012, households residing in Federal Emergency Management Agency mobile homes in Joplin, Mo., dropped below 500, recovery officials said. Mobile home occupancy peaked at 586 on Oct. 3, 2011, as a result of the massive tornado that …
Missouri’s State Emergency Management Agency has rejected funding for individual storm shelters, but SEMA says it will earmark $20 million to build community safe rooms in Joplin. Assistant City Manager Sam Anselm told The Joplin Globe that SEMA told him …
A black senator from St. Louis area who said she was fearful of reversing decades of hard-fought civil rights gains held the Missouri Senate floor for hours on Feb. 1 while vowing to block a vote on legislation changing the …
