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The Republican senator was a leader of efforts to challenge the presidential 2020 election results and voted to question the Electoral College count.
Continue ReadingThe Republican senator was a leader of efforts to challenge the presidential 2020 election results and voted to question the Electoral College count.
Continue ReadingLisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday.
Continue ReadingTERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades. The rulings, handed down just after midnight on Wednesday, allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to proceed with the execution of Lisa Montgomery.
Continue ReadingJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) As doses of COVID-19 vaccines are continuing to be administered to the first phase of Missourians, health leaders are eyeing education strategies to inform the public about the vaccine. According to a poll sponsored by the Missouri Hospital Association, 58-percent of Missourians are very or somewhat likely to seek the vaccine
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Continue ReadingState officials have increased security around the Missouri Capitol after last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol but are not aware of specific threats in the days ahead, a highway patrol spokesman said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House now is allowing members of the public to weigh in virtually on proposed bills in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The new rule is one of several approved by the Republican-led House on Tuesday as lawmakers begin their annual session under the cloud of COVID-19. Video or telephone
Continue ReadingThe Missouri Department of Transportation said Tuesday that calls for service were on track with previous years in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Continue ReadingA Democratic member of Missouri’s House of Representatives filed a resolution on Tuesday calling on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) to resign from office.
Continue ReadingGov. Mike Parson said after his inauguration Monday that the state plans to move into the next phase of its coronavirus vaccination plan next week.
Continue ReadingA federal judge granted Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, a stay of execution pending a competency hearing — just hours before she was scheduled to die. Judge James Hanlon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana wrote in the order granting the stay, “Ms. Montgomery’s motion to
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Continue ReadingMISSION, Kan. (AP) — A woman who killed a pregnant woman, cut a baby from her womb and then passed off the newborn as her own is set to die for the crime. Lisa Montgomery would be the first woman executed by the federal government in some six decades if her execution happens as scheduled
Continue ReadingGRAND TOWER, Ill. (AP) — Officials say dry weather last summer allowed repairs to finally be completed on a Mississippi River levee damaged in 2013 in southwestern Illinois when a drainage pipe failed. A year after the drain failed along the Big Muddy levee in the city of Grand Tower, then-Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A proposed ban on police chokeholds is gaining traction in Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature. Republican Rep. Shamed Dogan says he’s working with a top Senate Republican and Democrats on the proposal. He also wants to ban police from having sex with people in their custody. The bipartisan effort marks a turning point
Continue ReadingST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Flooding has been a consistent concern in the St. Joseph area, but this year, leaders of the community have the opposite worry — the unusually low level of the Missouri River. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Buchanan County commissioners have sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Sam Graves raising
Continue ReadingST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — St. Charles County’s top election official says more than 1,000 absentee and mail-in ballots in November were rejected because of mistakes by voters. St. Louis Public Radio reported Monday that Missouri’s third-largest county rejected 1,031 absentee and mail-in ballots, more than any other county in the state. The county tossed
Continue Reading“We have seen some challenging days together, but when it is hard to find the light, sometimes all you need is a spark to get the fire going again.”
Continue ReadingMissouri State Highway Patrol Capt. John Hotz said law enforcement set up checkpoints around the state Capitol with a required metal detector scan and a bag search.
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state health department reported more than 2,700 new COVID-19 cases in Missouri on Sunday morning. MDHSS also added 4 new deaths. The additions bring the total COVID-19 case count to 423,327 and death count to 5,948. 2,700 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in Missouri.
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