Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Corps of Engineers Denies Causing Missouri River Floods
Jul 7 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shouldn’t be blamed for causing major flooding along the Missouri River that has affected five states regularly since 2006, the government says in its initial response to a...
Missouri Regulators Offer More Online Services to Insurance Producers
Jun 25 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance announced that producers can now print their licenses and educational transcripts on demand through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) online State Based...
Missouri Court Tosses $240M Punitive Award from Smelter Lawsuit
Jun 19 2014 // A Missouri appeals court has thrown out $240 million in punitive damages awarded to 16 eastern Missouri residents who sued over health problems from the Herculaneum lead smelter. A jury awarded the damages against former...
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Arson, Insurance Fraud
Jun 16 2014 // A western Missouri man has admitted leading a conspiracy to buy cheap houses and set them on fire to collect nearly $435,000 in insurance benefits. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 27-year-old Joshua Stamps, of...
Missouri Company Fined $100K for Federal Safety Violations
Jun 12 2014 // A St. Louis County construction company faces more than $100,000 in fines after a federal agency investigating a serious workplace injury found multiple safety violations. The federal Occupational Safety and Health...
New Missouri Laws Expand Paperless Options, Insurance Protections
Jun 11 2014 // Under new laws signed by Gov. Jay Nixon, Missourians now have more paperless options when receiving policy information from their insurance companies, and commercial property owners will see expanded insurance protections,...
Number of Defective School Buses in Missouri Rising
Jun 6 2014 // The percentage of school buses failing state inspections is on the rise in Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says slightly fewer than 85 percent of the roughly 12,000 school buses it inspected this year were...
Kansas Man Sentenced for Defrauding Missouri Insurance Fund
Jun 5 2014 // A Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a $1.3 million fraud involving a Missouri fund for cleaning up leaking petroleum tanks. Robert Fine II was sentenced on June 3 after pleading guilty last...
Midwest Hit by Damaging Hail Storms, Tornadoes
Jun 5 2014 // Baseball-sized hail pummeled homes and cars in Nebraska and Iowa on June 2 as powerful thunderstorms moved through a swath of Midwest states, also causing severe flooding and prompting reports of tornadoes. The National...
Missouri High School Team to Skip Bass Tournament Due to Insurance Troubles
May 28 2014 // Concerns about insurance requirements will keep a southwest Missouri high school team from participating in the first high school bass pro fishing tournament in June. Nixa High School anglers won’t be part of the...
Missouri Legislature OKs Criminal Checks for Health Advisers
May 23 2014 // Despite a federal court order against their current law, Missouri legislators voted to toughen requirements even further for people seeking to work as insurance guides under President Barack Obama’s health care...
Ridesharing Service Gains Kinder Favor in Missouri
May 21 2014 // A ridesharing service embroiled in a legal dispute with the St. Louis taxi commission has received a public show of support from one of the state’s top elected leaders. Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder urged the...
Former Anheuser-Busch VP Loses Gender Bias Suit in Missouri
May 19 2014 // Anheuser-Busch did not discriminate against a former executive by paying her significantly less than a male predecessor, a jury in St. Louis, Mo. decided Friday. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated for more...
People – Midwest
May 19 2014 // Appleton, Wis.-based SECURA Insurance promoted Tim Heyroth to the newly created position of vice president-sales. Heyroth, who has been with SECURA for more than 17 years, will be responsible for developing and...
EF2 Tornado Hammers Missouri Town, State of Emergency Declared
May 12 2014 // Residents in a small northwest Missouri town that took a direct hit from an EF2 tornado were busy on May 11 assessing damage and rescheduling events, like the coming high school graduation. The tornado Saturday evening in...
Missouri Law Bars Contractors from Paying Deductibles on Commercial Property
May 2 2014 // Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that supporters say is aimed at protecting commercial property. A 2011 Missouri law bars residential contractors who fix roofs or complete other exterior repairs...
Couch, Leung Named to Leadership Posts at Missouri Insurance Department
Apr 15 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance appointed two veteran regulators to key leadership posts. Carrie Couch has been named the acting director of the Consumer Affairs Division and William Leung has joined the Division of...
Judge’s Order Allows Headlight-Flashing in Missouri County
Apr 10 2014 // A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction prohibiting a St. Louis County town from ticketing drivers for flashing their headlights to warn other drivers that police are nearby. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey...
Missouri Insurance Department Celebrates 145 Years
Apr 7 2014 // The Missouri Department of Insurance marked its 145th anniversary on March 4. The state legislature created what was then called the Division of Insurance in 1869. At that time, 171 insurers were authorized to sell...
Basketball Coach Admits Being Part of Car Theft Ring
Apr 3 2014 // The women’s basketball coach at Highland Community College in northeast Kansas, who once coached at Southeast Missouri State University, pleaded guilty to being part of a car theft ring that prosecutors said staged...
