by Mike Lear | Mar 15, 2016 | News, Politics / Govt
More than 61-percent of Missouri’s precincts have reported in, and there is less than a percentage point’s difference between Donald Trump and Texas senator Ted Cruz in the Republican race. Trump has 42.198-percent of the ballots cast, Cruz has...
by Mike Lear | Mar 15, 2016 | News, Politics / Govt
The races look tight with only about 21-percent of Missouri’s precincts reporting in. On the Democratic side, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (50.025%) is leading Hillary Clinton (48.023%) by a little more than one-percent with more than 88-thousand ballots...
by Mike Lear | Mar 15, 2016 | News, Politics / Govt
Polls have been closed about an hour in Missouri and only 24 of 3041 precincts have reported in. Here are the very early results based on results reported by the Secretary of State’s office: On the Democratic ticket, Hillary Clinton has received more than...
by Mike Lear | Mar 15, 2016 | Crime / Courts, News
A man once sentenced to death for the 1977 murder of a Brentwood teenager has died in prison. Gregory Bowman was convicted of kidnapping, raping, and killing 16-year-old Velda Joy Rumfelt. His death sentence was set aside in 2011 after the state Supreme Court ruled...
by Mike Lear | Mar 15, 2016 | News
Whether the state should act in response to the electric shock drowning deaths of two children on the Lake of the Ozarks last year has gotten its first round of debate in the legislature. Representative Caleb Jones (R-Columbia) has proposed requiring that all docks...
