COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issued cease-and-desist orders to six online prediction market operators, demanding they stop offering sports “event contracts” to state residents without a sports wagering license, according to a Friday press release from her office. The letters were sent to Polymarket, Kalshi, Crypto.com, Novig, Underdog and Robinhood. The AG’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County judge dismissed the state of Missouri as a defendant in a case over data centers in Montgomery County. Defendants in a case filed in February – by a group Montgomery County residents and property owners called Preserve Montgomery County, LLC – filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With football season underway, Missouri is poised to collect some of its highest taxable revenue from sports betting. But the rise of prediction markets could divert some of that wagering activity — and the tax revenue it generates — away from the state. Missouri launched legal sports wagering in December 2025 after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced on Thursday that Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd has died. Information on the county’s website says Zahnd was the longest-serving prosecutor in the county’s history, being originally elected in 2002. “I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd,” Hanaway
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A second class action lawsuit has been filed against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins over the use of the 2025 “Missouri First” map. Kate Dennis and Curry Spray, both of St. Louis, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Cole County that asks that every person who voted in the August primary to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Candidates from this past August’s Republican primary in Missouri’s 5th Congressional district have filed a lawsuit in Cole County. The lawsuit says Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Jana Morris, Michael Morris and Peter Smedile filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, candidate Rick Brattin and the state’s Republican party
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Opposition to new data centers is getting a lot of attention. That includes Wednesday, when scores of anti-data center protesters filled the Missouri Capitol Rotunda, then took to the streets around the building for a march. One of the stops was next to the Governor’s Mansion. The protesters’ big demand is a moratorium on data
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: A misspelled name has been corrected. Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins visited the University of Missouri campus Wednesday afternoon for an event hosted by the university’s Turning Point USA chapter. Hoskins is currently facing several legal battles, including the ongoing fight over Missouri’s congressional maps, in which the Missouri
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order putting limits on the use of video obtained from Flock license-plate-reader camera networks. The order signed Wednesday puts restrictions in place until the Missouri General Assembly creates its own. The order requires license plate and vehicle data to be deleted after 30
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis man drowned Wednesday morning at the Lake of the Ozarks after he suffered a head injury, according to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The report says the man jumped from a deck into shallow water and injured his head at the 4.8 mile marker of the
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s county clerks and election directors told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that it is too late to switch congressional maps for the Nov. 3 general election. Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon and the Missouri Association of County Clerks and Election Authorities filed an amicus brief in the 8th U.S. Circuit
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COLUMBIA, MO. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The spelling of the doctor’s name has been corrected. One doctor at MU Health Care said that she is seeing a declining vaccination rate and, because of this, we could see a more intense flu season. Dr. Amruta Padhye, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at the University of Missouri, said
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri voters will see Amendment 7 on the November ballot, and they’ll have to decide whether to create a permanent public endowment that will grow until it reaches an amount sufficient to eliminate all state-imposed taxes. How much the fund would need to eliminate taxes and how long it could take are
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Board of Education approved a new A-F school and district grading framework Tuesday, with one board member voting against it. The vote approves the formula the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will use to calculate letter grades for public schools, charter schools and districts. In January,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe announced $10 million in grants to cities and counties that participate in the state’s Blue Shield program. The Blue Shield Program was created by Gov. Mike Kehoe on his first day in office and is aimed at increasing public safety. It requires “participating jurisdictions to create comprehensive, sustainable programs to fight
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Vice President JD Vance was in Kansas City on Monday to announce an operation that is allegedly targeting fraud that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vance spoke at the Kansas City FBI headquarters as officials announced “Operation No Doze,” which is starting in Missouri and Kansas. A press release from the Department
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Judicial Discovery Center in Jefferson City held its grand opening on Monday. The center, which cost $400,000 from money raised by the Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society, will serve as an interactive space for residents to learn more about, “the rule of law, the role of courts in our
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol Troopers took a juvenile into custody Sunday for allegedly stealing a family member’s car in Jefferson City. MSHP’s Troop F said in a social media post that Flock Safety Cameras were used to find the car. 🚨Flock Camera Locates Stolen Car🚨 Troopers received notification of a car, stolen
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Drivers parking downtown Jefferson City will pay more at the meter as the city begins rolling out higher parking rates. The city approved the rate increases in Aug. as part of a new two-tiered parking system that will gradually increase rates through 2030. The first increase went into effect Sept. 1
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri voters are asking a Cole County judge to approve a class action lawsuit against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins over how he handled signatures for the referendum to get the 2025 gerrymandered congressional map on the November ballot. The lawsuit asks for $500 for each person who signed the referendum, had
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