Senate Leader Accuses AG of Playing Politics

The Senate leader accuses the Attorney General of instigating stall tactics that have, at present, blocked a plan to finance college capital improvements. Senate President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons (R-Kirkwood) accuses Democrats of putting politics over people in their...

Nixon urges lawmakers to reform payday lending

He calls it legalized loan sharking. Attorney General Jay Nixon says payday lenders are ripping off the poorest of the poor. That’s why he is urging the legislature to approve one senate bill and two related house bills that would slash...

Mental Fitness Will Decide Prisoner’s Fate

Whether a state prisoner is mentally retarded is a life or death question before the State Supreme Court. While serving a 30-year sentence for rape and sodomy, Steven Parkus strangled to death a fellow inmate. He was sentenced to death. In 1999, Governor Carnahan...