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Driver’s License Shopping

December 31, 2007 By

 Missouri is using a new national database to keep drivers from driving here if they’ve lost their privileges in other states. Revenue Department spokesman David Griffith says the national driver registry keeps people from going from state to state when they lose their licenses. For example, he says, if someone with a license that has been suspended or revoked in another state tries to get a license here, the person is told to clear things up in the other state before making another request in Missouri.

Griffith doesn’t have the number of drivers who’ve been denied Missouri licenses because the registry shows they’re suspended or revoked in other states.

He says the department also consults a national database when a foreign citizen applies for a Missouri driver’s license. Griffith says the department checks with the Systematic Alien Verification of Entlement, or SAVE, database before issuing anything more than a temporary license to somone claiming to be in this country legally.

Filed Under: Transportation

McFadden Will Play For Arkansas

December 31, 2007 By

The University of Arkansas released the following statement following its review of allegations reported in the media regarding student-athlete Darren McFadden.

"The University of Arkansas has conducted a thorough review of allegations reported in the media concerning Darren McFadden. Based upon the institution’s review, Mr. McFadden remains eligible and will participate in the 2008 AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. The University will have no further comment regarding this matter."

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New Year Brings Hike in Minimum Wage

December 31, 2007 By

The start of the new year brings with it an increase in Missouri’s minimum wage. Most Missourians at the low end of the pay scale will start earning 15 cents more per hour, from $6.50 to $6.65 an hour.

Wanda Seeney, a Public Information Administrator with the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, says the increase affects most minimum wage earners, but there are exceptions. For example, those working for retail or service businesses whose gross annual income is below $500,000 are not automatically entitled to an increase … and people who work for tips are covered by a different set of rules.

In November of 2006, voters approved an increase in the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.50 an hour beginning January 1st of 2007, with regular increases adjusted for inflation. The 2008 increase in the minimum wage is based on a 2.2 percent change in the Consumer Price Index between July of 2006 and July of 2007.

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Filed Under: Business

Springfield Police Standoff Ends in Suicide

December 31, 2007 By

A 77-year old man who held police at bay for more than five hours has shot and killed himself in the parking lot of the Springfield City Police Headquarters.

The Department says the man had offered to give an officer information about criminal activity but actually gave the officer a suicide note. When the officer realized what he had, he called other officers for help. But after five hours of negotiations, the man killed himself.

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State Lawmakers Earn Money From Presidential Campaigns

December 31, 2007 By

The Speaker of the Missouri House, who has endorsed Mitt Romney for President, is getting six-thousand dollars a month from the Romney campaign. Speaker Rod Jetton (R-Marble Hil)l is rounding up support as an employee of the Romney campaign as Romney’s Political Director for Missouri.

Another House member also is getting money from a presidential candidate. Representative Rachel Storch (D-St.Louis) is the State Campaign Director for Hillary Clinton.

Filed Under: Politics & Government
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