Many Missouri drivers will hit the road this weekend to return home from the Thanksgiving holiday....
Missouri’s Chief Justice on historic new court: I never thought I would see it in my professional career (LISTEN)
Missouri’s Chief Justice Mary Russell is in charge of a historic state Supreme Court. This is the...
Mum’s the word as Missouri House panel concludes second closed meeting
Mum’s the word as the Missouri House Ethics Committee concluded its second meeting at the State...
Missouri’s latest attempt to defund Planned Parenthood reaches Supreme Court
A fight over defunding Planned Parenthood has made its way to the Missouri Supreme Court. The high...
Missouri court quickly rejects Ashcroft’s ‘politically partisan’ wording for abortion proposals
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District has unanimously struck down Secretary of...
Southwest Missouri judge chosen to serve on the state’s high court
(Jefferson City, MO) –- The next Missouri Supreme Court judge is from southwest Missouri. Gov....
Attempts to make some abortions legal again make it back to a Missouri courtroom
Back to a courtroom today for proposed initiatives that are designed to make abortion legal again...
Man who killed Missouri sheriff dies in prison
One of two men convicted of killing a southwest Missouri sheriff in the 1980’s has died. The state...
One-year anniversary of St. Louis high school shooting
Today is the one-year anniversary of a shooting at a St. Louis high school that left a student and...
U.S. Supreme Court rejects request to reinstate controversial Missouri gun law
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Missouri’s request to restore a controversial state gun law. The...
Missouri prosecutors want to help Afghan prosecutors loyal to the U.S. escape
Prosecutors in Missouri are rallying around former prosecutors in Afghanistan who are trying to...
Missouri appeals court upholds conviction of former KC detective who killed black man
A former Kansas City police detective will have to serve a six-year prison sentence for shooting...
CORRECTION: Missouri lawmaker not involved in traffic crash
Last night, Missourinet erroneously reported in this space that a Cole County car crash involved...
Cannabis trade group suing St. Louis County and Missouri over ‘double-taxing’
A marijuana trade group is suing St. Louis County and the state of Missouri over the county...
Missouri’s retail theft is gouging over $1B from stores
Retailers in Missouri lose an estimated $1.44 billion in annual revenue to theft. It’s an ongoing...
Audit accuses Missouri sheriff’s office of “questionable buys” on booze, cigarettes, and 76 hams
A state audit accuses the Ray County Sheriff’s Office, near Kansas City, of misusing thousands of...
Ashcroft appeals court’s ruling on proposed vote to make abortions legal again
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has filed an appeal in response to a court’s ruling on a proposed...
U.S. House committee approves Wagner’s bill to reduce rape evidence backlog
(Washington, D.C.) – An effort to reduce the nation’s backlog of sexual assault evidence has taken...
Missouri fights correctional officer shortages by mobilizing special units
Missouri has created special mobile units of correctional officers to help fight staffing...
Simulator aims to help Missouri schools prepare for safety threats
The world we live in today includes school safety threats on a regular basis. A new high-tech tool...
Escaped sex offender recaptured
A convicted sex offender who escaped from a hospital in St. Louis County is back in prison. Tommy...
Missouri task force discusses ‘chokepoints’ in access to substance misuse treatment
The demand for substance misuse treatment is high, but the availability to treat these patients is...
Audit finds Missouri Department of Corrections’ MVE program not benefiting short-term inmates as intended
A program designed to help Missouri inmates to gain job skills to use after they’re released is...
Pawn shop owner sentenced to 20 months for selling stolen property on eBay
A Kansas City pawn shop owner will serve 20 months in federal prison, without parole, for selling...
Missouri Congressman discusses co-chairing panel looking into impeaching President Biden
An investigation co-led by a Missouri congressman is looking into whether to ask the U.S. House to...
Missouri Supreme Court judge chosen, with women making up the majority
Missouri has a new Supreme Court judge. Gov. Mike Parson has chosen Kelly Broniec to serve on the...
Proposed Missouri abortion initiatives head to court
A lawsuit is back in court over 11 proposed initiatives that are designed to make many abortions...
New Missouri law to crack down on porch pirates
A new Missouri law criminalizes porch pirates – those who steal packages and other mail left on...
Parson on local gun proposals: “Stay in your lanes”
Kansas City and St. Louis have been working to find gaps in Missouri’s gun laws. As a way to help...
To combat illegal items getting into prisons, Missouri puts limits on reading materials
Jefferson City -- Inmates within Missouri’s prison system will no longer be allowed to get reading...