JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Conservation Commission has approved a limited black bear hunting season, to start next year. Under a plan approved Friday, only Missouri residents will be allowed to hunt the bears, and only in three “Bear Management Zones” in southern Missouri. Permit and quota regulations will be determined next spring,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s governor and top Republican lawmakers are expecting the state to bring in less money next year. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday announced officials are planning on the state collecting about $9.78 billion in revenue next fiscal year, which begins in July. That’s about $200 million less than the
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Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, laid out the timeline in a call with reporters Friday.
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FULTON, Mo (KMIZ) Fulton Middle School and Fulton High School will pivot to distance learning beginning Friday. Officials cite that change as there is an increase in the number of students and staff with positive cases and in quarantine for COVID-19 at the secondary level. In seat classes will return with a projected date of
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Thursday disqualified the St. Louis prosecutor from the case involving Mark McCloskey, who along with his wife pointed guns at racial injustice protesters marching on the private street near their home in June. Circuit Judge Thomas Clark II dismissed Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, citing two campaign fundraising emails
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TRENTON, Mo. (AP) — A former north central Missouri police officer has been charged with statutory rape. Twenty-five-year-old Mike Wilson, a former officer with the Trenton police department, was arrested Wednesday and is being held without bond in the Grundy County Jail. Trenton Police Chief Rex Ross said Wilson had been fired after working for
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WILLARD, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors in southwestern Missouri have charged four people in connection with the November shooting deaths of a couple. Greene County’s prosecutor announced the charges Wednesday. Alex Chute and his fiancee, Brianna Sproul, were found dead Nov. 14 in Willard. Court documents accused Chute’s ex-wife, Theresa Cox, of planning the killings and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Food and Drug Administration is meeting Thursday to discuss red flags and oversights of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine. The FDA has been working to understand what happened with the allergic reactions from the Pfizer vaccine, which was reported in the U.K. on Wednesday. In a press release from the FDA, it
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A married lesbian couple has settled a lawsuit with a St. Louis retirement community that refused to let them live there. Mary Walsh and Bev Nance sued the Friendship Village in Sunset Hills in July 2018. They alleged they were not permitted to move in because the community’s cohabitation policy defined
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general has brought the state into an effort by GOP officials across the nation to reverse President Donald Trump’s election loss. Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that Missouri has joined more than 15 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case filed
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is forcing changes in next month’s inauguration of Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and swearing-in ceremonies for state officials. Parson’s office said the traditional inaugural ball and parade will be postponed to August, when they will be held in conjunction with the state’s 200th birthday observance. The governor,
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The Missouri Housing Development Commission announced a new program, the Missouri Emergency Rental Arrears Program, which will provide assistance to property owners and renters in Missouri who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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According to the latest White House ‘red zone’ report, obtained by ABC News, 95 counties in Missouri are currently in the “red zone,” including Boone, Cole and Callaway counties.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City group will have to pay a fine for not disclosing it paid for postcards sent to support an August ballot measure. The Missouri Ethics Commission fined the Jefferson City Area Indivisible $1,100 on Dec. 4 for failing to tell people it paid for postcards promoting Amendment 2 or
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police is asking for help locating 32-year-old Thomas Lee Spalding. Spalding was last seen after being dropped off for work at the Columbia Mall Car Wash on Nov. 13. If you have any information, please contact CPD at 573-874-7652.
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For nearly nine months the COVID-19 pandemic has been crushing health care workers mentally and physically.
Continue ReadingO’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A new report card gives a low grade to the Mississippi River Watershed and cites a need for billions of dollars in new spending to address concerns like flooding and water quality involving the nation’s largest rivers. America’s Watershed Initiative on Tuesday released its first report since it gave the watershed
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