by admin | Dec 29, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Missouri’s Division of Family Services is defending itself in the wake of a performance audit which found the Division isn’t doing enough to deal with child abuse and neglect. The report concludes the Division fails to adequately investigate cases....
by admin | Oct 3, 2000 | Politics / Govt
St. Louis has an especially poor record of accumulating money that should be used for shelters for abused people, but not spending it, while turning away hundreds of people. Mayor Clarence Harmon has apologized for the situation and says it will be corrected. The City...
by admin | Sep 27, 2000 | Politics / Govt
A state audit raises suspicions some counties are not providing help for victims of domestic violence even though they have collected money to do that. And auditor Claire McCaskill says other counties are not using the fund-raising tools they have been given. She says...
by admin | Sep 18, 2000 | Health / Medicine
State Division of Aging Director Richard Dunn is considering a proposal to broaden the employee disqualification list kept by the division. The state auditor says the division should be given the authority by the legislature to keep those on the Division of Family...
by admin | Jul 11, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Trouble for the woman in charge of the Jackson County Land Trust. Ardie Kahn and her husband, Hadeem, are each charged with three felony counts of violating state land trust law. A former attorney for the agency, Henry Duke Bledsoe, was charged with a single count....
