Latest Missouri state government News
Kansas is making a big run at Kansas City's pro teams with a plan to help pay for new stadiums
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is making a serious run at becoming the new home for the reigning Super Bowl champions with legislators approving a plan Tuesday to lure the Chiefs and Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals away from Missouri. Bipartisan legislative...
Execution date set for Missouri inmate, even as he awaits hearing on claim of actual innocence
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a Sept. 24 execution date for Marcellus Williams, even as the inmate awaits a court hearing on his claim that he was not involved in the murder that landed him on death row. The state Supreme Court set the date hours after it ruled that...
Missouri court changes date of vote on Kansas City police funding to August
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters in August will weigh in on a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend more money on police, the state Supreme Court ordered Tuesday. The high court changed the date when the ballot measure will appear from November to Aug....
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 24, 2024. Editorial: Parson is right to block state payout for defamation. Bailey is wrong, as usual. For months now, this Editorial Board has charted the egregious politicization of the Missouri Attorney General’s office under its...
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
Kansas City Star. May 14, 2024. Editorial: Teens can’t make lifelong commitments. Missouri must ban marriage under age 18 Missouri doesn’t have a stellar record when it comes to protecting young people — young women, especially — from the harms of marrying far...
Missouri senators, not taxpayers, will pay potential damages in Chiefs rally shooting case
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases filed against them for falsely accusing a Kansas man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally. Missouri's...
Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidat e with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the...
Editorial Roundup: Missouri
Kansas City Star. May 8, 2024. Editorial: Kansas City is not trying to defund its police. The Missouri Supreme Court was right We’ve long held that Kansas Citians and Kansas Citians alone should have the final say in how the city spends taxpayer dollars on policing....
Filibuster by Missouri Democrats stretches into a second day. What's the fight about?
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A nonstop, overnight filibuster by Democratic lawmakers in the Missouri Senate passed the 24-hour point on Tuesday as they try to reign in a Republican proposal to make it harder to amend the state constitution. Lawmakers face a 6 p.m. Friday deadline to...
Children are dying of fentanyl by the dozens in Missouri. A panel is calling for changes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases, a state panel found in a newly released report. Forty-three youth died — 20 of them under the age of 4 — in 2022...
