by Mike Lear | Jul 5, 2016 | Crime / Courts, News
A Springfield woman pleaded guilty today to second-degree murder for the stabbing death of her mother last year. Prosecutors say Gypsy Blanchard told her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to stab her mother, Clauddinnea “Dee Dee” Blanchard, to death in June of...
by Mike Lear | Jul 5, 2016 | Business, News
The sponsor of a vetoed bill that would give Missouri businesses a tax break for shifting to an employee ownership program says he’ll pursue an override of the veto. The bill would give companies a break on 50-percent of the tax on capital gains resulting from...
by Mike Lear | Jul 4, 2016 | News
Before work begins in St. Louis to build the western headquarters for the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency, archaeologists are seeing what they can find at the site. They’re digging up about 5-percent of the 90-acre NGA site in North St. Louis. Joe Harl...
by Mike Lear | Jul 4, 2016 | Crime / Courts, News
An app developed, in part, at Washington University, will allow users to help fight human trafficking. Users of the TraffickCam take photos of hotel rooms they stay in, and those photos go into a database that law enforcement can compare to photos taken to advertise...
by Mike Lear | Jul 1, 2016 | News
A legislative Republican budget leader thinks what the Nixon Administration is doing that is keeping Medicaid dollars going to Planned Parenthood is illegal. Governor Jay Nixon (D) announced Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri will continue getting Medicaid dollars...