As a new year in the Missouri Legislature begins, leaders of the Republican Supermajority began setting spending priorities, especially for the $2.8 billion surplus that has come from federal COVID aid money. Senator Dan Hegeman, R- Cosby, chairs the powerful Senate...
A Missouri State Representative’s federal court trial has been moved to June 2022. The trial for Representative Tricia Derges, R-Nixa, was scheduled to begin Monday at a federal courthouse in southwest Missouri’s Springfield. Don Ledford, with the U.S. Attorney’s...
State Representative Tricia Derges, R-Nixa, is scheduled to go on trial beginning August 16. Don Ledford, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Missouri, says the trial will be at the federal courthouse in southwest Missouri’s Springfield. It will...
State Representative Hannah Kelly, R-Mountain Grove, says her 19-year-old daughter she adopted two years ago inspired her to file two bills about foster care and adoption. The duo of bills, passed by the Missouri Legislature this year and signed into law by Gov. Mike...
A freshman state lawmaker who represents a district in far southern Missouri passed landmark prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) legislation in his first year in Jefferson City. State Rep. Travis Smith (R-Twin Bridges) represents Douglas, Ozark and Taney...
