Special Olympics Missouri honored several of its most outstanding athletes, coaches, volunteers, and donors at its 2022 Leadership Summit on Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Training for Life Campus. You can check out all of the photos from the event here. SOMO athletes Anna McDaniel and Allen Tobin emceed the program. During the ceremony, SOMO […]
The Missouri Public Service Commission’s Cold Weather Rule, designed to help customers with heat-related utility bills, begins on November 1, 2022. The rule will remain in effect through March 31, 2023. It has been a part of the Commission’s rules and regulations since 1977. The Cold Weather Rule applies to natural gas and electric utilities […]
(Missouri Independent) – The first time St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones publicly spoke about the tragic shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, it was just hours after a shooter took the lives of a 15-year-old student and a health teacher. Jones was so visibly shaken with grief she could barely get out […]
U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Wednesday sentenced a man caught with a gun while overdosing on fentanyl to six years in prison. Derrick Hart pleaded guilty in May to being a felon in possession of a firearm and admitted possessing that gun on March 3, 2020. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers found […]
A man from Park Hills, Missouri was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday on charges of receiving child pornography and accessing with intent to view child pornography. Investigators learned in 2019 that child sexual abuse materials were available via a peer-to-peer file-sharing application and traced it to Rodney D. Price, 42. They later found that […]
A Missouri man who was inebriated when he fired a pistol from his apartment patio pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing a stolen firearm. Reggie L. Teagues, 42, of Independence, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to one count of possessing a stolen firearm. By pleading guilty, Teagues admitted that he […]
A Missouri man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a $4.1 million drug-trafficking conspiracy, which is linked to two murders, and which distributed approximately 520 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas. Markus Michael A. Patterson, 39, of Grandview, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Greg […]
(Missouri Independent) – A new report released this week documents the impact of COVID-19 on student performance in Missouri, with test scores for math and reading dropping from pre-pandemic levels. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assesses students in fourth and eighth grades throughout the nation in math and reading every two years, though […]
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway issued monthly reports detailing the compliance of municipalities and other political subdivisions with financial reporting laws. One report includes cities, towns, and villages while the other lists political subdivisions such as water, fire protection, and other taxing districts. These entities are required to file annual financial reports with the State […]
A rapper from Missouri pleaded guilty Tuesday in the middle of his jury trial to a felony charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Arthur Pressley, a.k.a. 30 Deep Grimeyy or Grimeyy, of St. Louis, was a convicted felon when he and others were stopped by St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers […]
A Missouri man who belonged to the Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced in federal court for methamphetamine trafficking. Jimmy Jack Pinkley, 45, of Billings, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 18 years and four months in federal prison without parole. On Dec. 16, 2021, Pinkley pleaded guilty to one count of possessing […]
A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court for robbing a bank within a month of being released from federal prison for another bank robbery. Charles Edgar King Jr., 58, Springfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to five years and 11 months in federal prison without parole. On May 31, 2022, […]
(Missourinet) – Missouri voters can cast an absentee ballot in-person without an excuse beginning today. Through November 7, registered Missouri voters are allowed to cast an absentee ballot in-person without an excuse. This can be done at your local election office. As part of a new wide-ranging elections law, the option is given […]
(Missouri Independent) – Republicans have had super-majorities in both chambers of the Missouri legislature for the past decade. And every election cycle, Democrats vow to begin crawling out of the legislative wilderness. This year is no different. But a new legislative map — drawn by a bipartisan redistricting commission — has created more potentially competitive […]
(Missourinet) – A school shooting today in St. Louis has claimed the lives of at least three people and has injured about seven others. Law enforcement quickly responded and killed the gunman at Central Visual and Performing Arts. A woman and a teenage girl have reportedly died. Kelvin Adams, the superintendent of St. Louis Public […]
(Missouri Independent) – Like most people, McDonald County Clerk Kimberly Bell had never heard of a “cast vote record” before this summer. It’s not a report she’s ever generated after an election in the small county in southwestern Missouri, where she has administered elections for eight years. But like many county clerks and election officials […]
The Missouri Department of Conservation reminds deer hunters that it will be holding mandatory CWD sampling during the opening weekend of the November portion of firearms season, Nov. 12 and 13, for hunters who harvest deer in 34 of 38 MDC CWD Management Zone counties. CWD is a deadly, infectious disease in deer and other […]
(Missourinet) – Missouri’s teacher shortage – and ways to help fix the problem – will be the focus of a series of statewide town halls beginning this week. The Missouri Board of Education and a statewide commission will hit the road to explain the workforce struggles and share recommendations to recruit and retain teachers. Monday’s […]
(Missourinet) – Bobbing for apples wasn’t always a Halloween-themed kids’ game. Many centuries ago in the British Isles, it was a romantic ritual in which women tried to determine if the man she was interested in would be her future husband. Getting it on the first try meant yes, on the second try meant a […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted Missouri and Louisiana’s request for depositions from top-ranking officials in the federal government. This is movement in his lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding to suppress freedom of speech. The list of granted […]
