GRAND 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
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ST. 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
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ST. 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
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“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.”
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Missouri 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.
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COLUMBIA, 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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The state health department reported more than 3,800 new COVID-19 cases in Missouri on Saturday morning. MDHSS also added 32 new deaths. The additions bring the total COVID-19 case count to 416,758 and death count to 5,912. 2,831 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in Missouri.
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Calls for Josh Hawley’s resignation are increasing after the Missouri Senator said he will, “never apologize” for his objection to the Electoral College certification.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for the only woman on federal death row are asking a judge to halt her execution and arguing she isn’t competent and can’t be put to death. Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her lawyers filed a petition Friday
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court has denied St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s appeal challenging the disqualification of her office from prosecuting Mark McCloskey who, along with his wife, drew guns on racial injustice protesters last summer. The decision Friday upholds Judge Thomas Clark II’s ruling last month that removed Gardner and
Continue ReadingPolice in north St. Louis say two people died in a crash early Friday. Officials say the crash happened around 2:30 a.m. Friday at 11th and St. Louis streets near Interstate 70. Television station KTVI reports that one person died at the scene of the crash, while the other person died later at a hospital.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City say a woman has died after being hit by a car as she walked on a street near the south end of the city. Police say the crash happened late Wednesday night on Troost Avenue just south of 71st Terrace Street and Forest Hill Cemetery, killing
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge in Missouri and nationwide, public health officials are thankful that so far, the flu has remained largely in check. Health leaders worried about a possible “twindemic” as the severe flu season began in the late fall, something that would leave flu and COVID-19 patients competing for ventilators
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State Rep. Chuck Basye wants voters to have the power to recall school board members and parents the ability to transfer their children from schools teaching only online out of coronavirus fears.
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A long-awaited extension of the Kansas City streetcar officially has a green light. Kansas City and federal officials on Friday announced they had signed an agreement officially committing $174 million in federal funding to extend the streetcar. When the project is completed, the streetcar will be extended from Union Station
Continue ReadingBLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Police say court deputies shot a man in suburban Kansas City while they were serving an eviction notice. The shooting occurred Friday when Jackson County process servers went to Blue Springs home to evict a man. Jackson County Court spokeswoman Valerie Hartment said the court deputies shot the man after
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MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Officials say a riot carried out by offenders in a northwestern Missouri minimum-security prison on New Year’s Eve was so destructive that it left part of a house unit unlivable. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that the riot began the night of Dec. 31 in the Maryville Treatment Center. Officials say
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The risk for flooding along the Missouri River appears lower than normal headed into the year because the ground remains dry across most of the region and snowpack levels are generally below average. Officials with the Corps of Engineers and National Weather Service cautioned Thursday that it is still early in
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