JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - For the second time this week, a group of lawmakers met behind closed doors for hours to discuss an ethics complaint. This is the first time the committee has been publicly linked to Rep. Dean Plocher. While it's unclear what the focus of the investigation is, lawmakers could also be focusing [...]
Tornadoes, hail and high winds get the headlines most of the time, but lightning is unquestionably one of the most underrated weather hazards out there.
Two weeks ago the Alabama Supreme Court blew up IVF treatments in the state by ruling that frozen embryos are human life. This made IVF too risky and forced hospitals and clinics to stop providing it. But everybody loves IVF—even Republicans—so the Alabama legislature moved like lightning to pass a bill giving IVF clinics absolute ...continue reading "Abortion foes are fighting against making IVF freely available"
Motel guests who were kicked to the curb Tuesday through no fault of their own have questions for the City of Florissant following an abrupt evacuation.
Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally over-militarized and at least slightly a little too trigger happy, especially when it comes to engaging minority communities. If you somehow think that there isn’t […]
What once was a dilapidated building is now in the works of being transformed into a culinary incubator and farmers market, all in hopes of revitalizing the Hyde Park neighborhood.
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, Mo. - A manhunt for a man accused of sodomy and arson ended Wednesday evening. Police say Michael Pender, 21, was located inside a car near where it all started and was taken into custody. At least seven law enforcement agencies were looking for Pender and had deployed seven K-9 teams, a [...]
Speaker Dean Plocher’s attorney sought to attend a closed-door hearing of the Missouri House Ethics Committee on Wednesday night, arguing he should be allowed to stay in order to listen to the panel review a report detailing the investigation of his client. Lowell Pearson, a veteran Republican attorney, was informed by the committee’s chair — […]
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