by admin | Mar 4, 2000 | Education
The biggest school district in St. Charles county has been staggered by news that it owes the state as much as four-million dollars more than originally calculated. Superintendent Dan Brown says it’s tied up with an attendance reporting problem and the...
by admin | Mar 4, 2000 | Crime / Courts
The death penalty will be sought for the man who dragged six-year-old Jake Robel to death last month in Independence. A grand jury has charged Kim Davis with first-degree murder. Davis is charged with carjacking the boy’s mother’s car…and driving it...
by admin | Mar 4, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Marshfield banker Steven Bramer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling more than 200-thousand dollars from the bank. Bramer is a former senior officer for Metropolitan National Bank. He has to do his time, then spend three years on probation and...
by admin | Mar 4, 2000 | News
The state senate thinks parents should be liable for the things their kids do, especially if it can be proven the parents’ own negligence was involved. Senator Marvin Singleton of Joplin has added the provision to a bill being debated in the senate. His...
by admin | Jan 12, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Congressman Roy Blunt of Springfield says first-class mail customers should not be subsidizing the cost of competition between the United States Postal Service and the private sector. He’s calling for the United States Postal Rate Commission to freeze rates, not...
