Latest Missouri Headlines
All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri DOT Urges Governor to Veto Repeal of Motorcycle Helmet Law
May 21 2009 // Missouri Transportation Director Pete Rahn says legislation repealing the state’s motorcycle helmet law for adults “makes no sense” and that Gov. Jay Nixon should veto it. Lawmakers during their annual...
Missouri Insurance Agents Honored With Trusted Choice Award
May 20 2009 // Trusted Choice has awarded the inaugural Dan Fulwider Award for Community Involvement to Kevin and Kathy Flynn of K. Flynn Insurance Agency in Troy, Mo., the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America...
Spring Storms Tear Up Midwest, Claim 3 Lives in Missouri
May 15 2009 // Citizens in four Midwestern states are cleaning up after violent storms killed three people in northern Missouri, damaged hundreds of homes and left thousands without power. Authorities reported at least two tornadoes...
Missouri Lawmakers Revise Fire Marshal Inspection Rule
May 14 2009 // Legislation easing the burden on the Missouri fire marshal to conduct fire safety inspections at long-term care facilities won final approval. The measure partially revises a law enacted after a November 2006 fire killed...
Cleanup Begins After Midwest Storms Kill 6
May 11 2009 // Residents of the Midwest began clearing away wreckage May 9 following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people. Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or...
Missouri Becomes Latest State to Require Fire-Safe Cigarettes
May 7 2009 // Missouri has become the latest state to join a national movement in requiring cigarettes to be self-extinguishing. The Missouri House voted 137-16 on May 5 to give final approval to legislation that requires the special...
$17M Jury Award Against American Family Mutual Reinstated
May 6 2009 // A Missouri appeals court has reinstated a $17 million jury award in a class action lawsuit against American Family Mutual Insurance Co. over aftermarket vehicle parts. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District...
Heavy Rain Causing Missouri Flooding
May 1 2009 // Residents in several river towns in Missouri are anxiously watching the weather over the next few days, now that recent rains have already caused minor to moderate flooding. Parts of northeast and central Missouri got up...
New Suit Filed in Missouri Over Chemical in Farmland Sludge
Apr 24 2009 // Farmers in four northwest Missouri counties may have unwittingly dumped millions of pounds of carcinogen-laced sludge on their fields, which may be linked to a rash of brain tumors in the area, environmental activist Erin...
Missouri Senate Scales Back Uninsured Driver Crackdown
Apr 23 2009 // Missouri senators have scaled back an effort to force people to get car insurance by limiting how much uninsured drivers could collect in court. A bill increasing the penalty for creating a fake insurance card received...
Tornadoes Give Mo. Businesses Insurance, Record-Keeping Lessons
Apr 10 2009 // Businesses in Southwest Missouri learned a lot about insurance, record-keeping and personal safety from tornadoes that tore through the area last spring. In many ways, walking into Bill Lant’s feed store in Seneca,...
Missouri House OKs Bill Requiring Fire-Safe Cigarettes
Apr 1 2009 // Cigarettes sold in Missouri would have to be self-extinguishing under a bill receiving first-round approval in the House. The goal is to lower the chances of a fire breaking out if a smoker falls asleep with a lit...
Missouri Senate Repeals Fire Marshal Inspection Rule
Mar 27 2009 // On March 25, Missouri Senators endorsed legislation that would repeal a requirement that fire safety inspections in Missouri long-term care facilities be performed by local fire departments or the state fire...
North Dakota Flooding Prompts Federal Disaster Designation
Mar 26 2009 // President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local...
Missouri Plan Would Create Tax Breaks for Added Jobs, Health Coverage
Mar 13 2009 // Lawmakers in the Missouri State Senate have come up with a plan that would add tax credits for businesses that add jobs with above-average wages and health insurance. The plan is a dramatic overhaul of the job-creation...
Former Missouri Gov. Blunt Claims Immunity From Defamation Suit
Mar 12 2009 // Attorneys for former Gov. Matt Blunt are citing executive privilege while asking an appeals court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former staff lawyer. Blunt lost a similar argument before a trial judge last fall, but...
Readiness of Some Rebuilt Levees in Midwest Questioned
Mar 10 2009 // With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not...
Missouri Unions Suffer Setback in Challenge to Workers’ Comp Law
Mar 9 2009 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently rejected labor union challenges to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured workers to get benefits under the workers’ compensation system. Business groups praised the...
Declarations
Mar 9 2009 // Can’t Figure “I can’t figure out what amount (Blunt) is convicted of.” —District Judge Bruce Romanick in ordering Sandy Blunt, the former director of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and...
Areas with Flood Insurance Policy Sales Potential Include Iowa, Missouri
Mar 9 2009 // GAO compared the number of NFIP policies in a given area, as of September 2006, with the total number of county flood declarations from January 1980 to June 2008, cumulative flood claims payments from January 1978 to April...
