(Missourinet) – In the era of increased school threats, the push to help keep Missouri schools safe will soon involve the push of an SOS button. Missouri is offering a mobile panic button app to the state’s public schools to rapidly alert staff and 911 when there is an emergency. SECURE could be pressed to […]
(Missouri Independent) – A few days before the unofficial marijuana holiday of April 20, as retailers prepared for the biggest sales day since legalization, Austin Monroe says he was fired by Shangri La South dispensary in Columbia. Monroe is one of 16 employees of the cannabis dispensary who signed an organizing petition seeking union representation by Local […]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 18 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed standards which would regulate the types of refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers Americans can use or buy. Ninety-five percent of “standard-size refrigerator-freezers, which account for approximately 70 percent of total annual shipments,” would not meet the Biden […]
Two Missouri local public health agencies are now offering mobile clinic and WIC services in more towns across Saline and Taney counties. Prior to the change, recipients of Missouri WIC benefits only had one option: travel to a single location in their area that offered services. Those services include health checkups for infants and children, […]
A business owner from St. Charles County, Missouri on Thursday was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in federal prison for using employees’ tax money for college tuition and mortgage payments on two houses. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark also ordered Jeffrey M. Bauza, 55, of Weldon Spring to pay back $1.4 million that he […]
The former assistant city clerk of Flordell Hills, Missouri was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing $159,903 from the struggling city. U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel also ordered Donna Thompson, 76, to repay the money. Thompson is the second former employee of Flordell Hills to be sentenced […]
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis, Missouri man who robbed a St. Louis gas station convenience store at gunpoint and tried to rob another business to 57 months in prison. On July 15, 2019, Kevin L. Gordon, 42, robbed the convenience store at 5003 Natural Bridge Avenue at gunpoint, […]
U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri felon caught with two guns to 57 months in prison. Travis L. Robinson, 26, also agreed to forfeit an AR-15-style pistol and a .40 caliber Glock handgun. Both guns were found after Normandy police were called to an apartment building in […]
Missouri non-farm payroll employment increased by 4,700 jobs in April 2023 from March 2023, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 2.5 percent. Private industry employment increased by 3,700 jobs and government employment increased by 1,000 jobs. Over the year, there was an increase of 59,900 jobs from April 2022 to April 2023, […]
(Missouri Independent) – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey terminated his emergency rule on gender-affirming care Tuesday — less than a week after the state legislature sent a ban on minors starting treatment to the governor’s desk. The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit in late April seeking to block Bailey’s emergency rule, alleging the attorney general […]
Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick announced that a regularly scheduled audit of Vernon County, which is located in western Missouri, is now underway. The State Auditor’s Office last audited Vernon County in 2016. The previous audit issued the county an overall performance rating of “good.” However, the report did identify weaknesses in the county’s cybersecurity and […]
U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on Tuesday sentenced a former postal worker who stole cash and gift cards from mail in the Poplar Bluff, Missouri area to probation and ordered her to pay restitution. Brittney D. Bulliner, 29, was caught in a sting stealing Walmart gift cards and a gift card for Kohl’s […]
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis, Missouri man to 28 years and three months in prison for a “rampage” that involved carjackings, burglaries, and a home invasion in May of 2021. Drew Clark, 37, started his spree by stealing a man’s Jeep Cherokee at Union Station in St. Louis […]
A man appeared in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Tuesday to face an indictment accusing him of setting fire to a St. Louis County home last month. Christopher Willis, 39, pleaded not guilty to the felony charge of maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire. The indictment says the fire occurred in a […]
Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. on Tuesday sentenced a man from Kennett, Missouri to 10 years in federal prison on drug and gun charges. Steven Chunn, 40, pleaded guilty in February to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He admitted that […]
A jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on Tuesday found a woman from Jefferson County, Missouri guilty of all 26 felony charges she faced for defrauding the Social Security Administration and private disability insurers with false disability claims. Elizabeth Guetersloh, 67, was found guilty of two counts of mail fraud, 16 counts of […]
The former city clerk of Flordell Hills, Missouri was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to repay the $487,673 she stole from the small, struggling city. Flordell Hills is roughly six blocks square, has an annual budget of about $400,000, and a population of about 800. Approximately 53.9% of those residents […]
A Springfield, Mo., man who was part of a local rap group pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing firearms, one of which has been linked to several recent shootings. Jardell Carlin Williams, 19, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to two counts of being an unlawful user of a […]
A Topeka, Kansas, man was indicted by a federal grand jury after traveling to Missouri to meet a 14-year-old girl, who was an undercover FBI employee, for illicit sex. William H. Reichart, 60, was charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. Today’s indictment replaces a criminal complaint that was filed against […]
An Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Louis Melvin Williamson, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to 15 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Williamson’s sentence to be served consecutively to any sentence imposed in a separate […]
