The Missouri Supreme Court is now considering Missouri’s controversial gun law called the Second Amendment Preservation Act, or SAPA. Lawyers for St. Louis and two of the state’s most populous counties made their case against the law, saying it causes confusion when...
At 6:11 p.m. Tuesday, Ernest Lee Johnson was pronounced dead at the state prison in Bonne Terre. After being sentenced to death nearly 23 years ago, he died by lethal injection at the maximum-security prison in southeast Missouri. Johnson, 61, was convicted of...
The Missouri Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for this week about the way Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft handled a proposed referendum to overturn an eight-week abortion ban bill. Alisa Nelson reports. Earlier stories: GROUPS SUE ASHCROFT FOR ‘ROBBING’...
Missouri’s governor says the state will proceed with voter-approved Medicaid expansion, following a recent unanimous ruling from the Missouri Supreme Court and Tuesday’s ruling from Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Edward Beetem. The judge has ordered the...
Missouri’s Solicitor General says the state Department of Social Services (DSS) needs two months to implement voter-approved Medicaid expansion. D. John Sauer made his comments Friday afternoon to Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem, saying DSS needs more...
