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Incentives for Ford, changes in public pension plans pass House (AUDIO)

June 29, 2010 By

Incentives for Ford to keep its factory in Kansas City running at full capacity and an overhaul of the state worker pension system cleared the House and have moved to an uncertain reception in the Senate on the first full day of this special legislative session.

The Ford Motor Company could receive tax breaks totaling $100 million at its Claycomo plant under an auto manufacturing bill (HB 2) approved by the House. Sponsor Jerry Nolte, a Republican from Gladstone, has high hopes the Senate will be receptive. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Legislature Tagged With: , ,

MO National Guard team aims to help win war with peacekeeping (AUDIO)

June 29, 2010 By
The departure ceremony in Jefferson City

The departure ceremony in Jefferson City

65 men and women from the Missouri National Guard are on their way to Afghanistan to teach farmers and officials there modern agriculture practices.

“I’m reminded of an old saying, that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar,” Commander of the Missouri National Guard Steve Danner tells the hundreds of people the deployment ceremony in Jefferson City.        

“We bring our citizens skills to the fight to see that we can make the Afghan’s life better. With that, then they have less incentive to join the Taliban and anti-government forces,” Danner said. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Military

‘David’s Law’ DUI memorial signs go up along highways

June 29, 2010 By
Twenty-six years after David Poenicke’s death due to an impaired driver, a sign has been installed on I-270 in Florissant.

 

David's LawreplicaMissouri Department of Transporation Melissa Black says there are six other signs pending installation. Families of victims can submit an application to MoDOT have a sign installed in the memory of their loved ones killed by drunk drivers.

Black says the signs are not a cost to taxpayers, but do cost those memorializing loved ones about $600 for fabrication and installation.

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Filed Under: Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Legislature, Transportation

House gives tentative approval to Ford/pension bills

June 29, 2010 By

Two bills requested by Governor Nixon have passed in the Missouri House during this special legislative session, but neither is in the form the governor prefers.

In fact, questions have been raised about whether the House has acted within the scope of the special session call. The governor’s chief of staff has issued a letter warning that expansion of a bill that would provide up to $100 million to the Ford Motor Company to keep its Claycomo plant in Kansas City at full capacity makes it vulnerable to a lawsuit. Some Democrats in the House picked up that theme during debate, accusing some members of endangering nearly 4,000 jobs simply to push their pet projects. [Read more...]

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SCOMO upholds “sex tape murder” death penalty

June 29, 2010 By

The state Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man involved in one of the Kansas City area’s most sensational recent murder cases.

Richard Davis was convicted of murdering a woman he and his girlfriend, Dena Riley, had sexually abused and killed. Jurors saw a videotape that showed Davis and Riley suffocating Independence resident Marsha Spicer.

All seven judges agree the trial court made none of the mistakes Davis claims it made. The court split on two other points in the case but upheld the trial court’s decision on each issue.

Riley, the girlfriend, is in prison for life without parole.

 

Filed Under: Crime & Courts
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