Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Arbitrator: Firefighter Lied About Fatal Crash
Oct 25 2022 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An arbitrator ruled that a Kansas City firefighter lied to police after he drove through a red light and crashed into several vehicles, killing three people last year. Judge Miles Sweeney said in...
Investigation Uncovers Significant Radioactive Waste at Missouri Elementary School
Oct 18 2022 // FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report by environmental...
Mom Whose Son’s Death Led to Missouri Jail Reforms Wins $1.2 Million Settlement
Oct 10 2022 // A mother whose son died less than an hour after he was transported from a Missouri jail to a state prison has won a $1.2 million settlement in a case that helped lead to suspensions, firings and reforms. The St. Louis...
Man Charged With Damaging Historic Missouri Home of Composer Scott Joplin
Oct 6 2022 // A man was charged Tuesday with breaking into the historic home of ragtime composer Scott Joplin and causing tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of damage. Thirty-eight-year-old Kevin Daley-Bey faces one count each of...
Keystone to Add Bainswest Agencies in Oklahoma, Missouri
Oct 5 2022 // Keystone welcomed a group of Bainswest agencies from Oklahoma and Missouri to its network of growing agencies across the nation, effective January 1, 2023. Bainswest formed in Tulsa, OK in 1994. Bainswest ranks No. 18 in...
Missouri Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Recreational Pot Suit
Sep 15 2022 // The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up a lawsuit challenging a ballot proposal to legalize recreational marijuana use in the state. The Tuesday ruling means the proposed constitutional amendment will be...
Risk Strategies Acquires Missouri’s Beattie & Associates
Sep 15 2022 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced it has acquired Beattie & Associates, a retail agency in Missouri specializing in employee benefits for both individuals and...
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Missouri Recreational Pot Measure
Sep 13 2022 // A Missouri judge last week tossed out a lawsuit that sought to knock a recreational marijuana proposal off the Nov. 8 ballot. The measure would allow those ages 21 and older to buy and grow marijuana for personal...
Missouri Collision Between Car and Horse and Buggy Leaves 5 Injured
Sep 1 2022 // Five people were injured when a car struck a horse and buggy southeast of Kansas City during the weekend, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. A vehicle driven by a 71-year-old man hit the back of the buggy on Saturday...
Lawsuit Filed to Take Recreational Marijuana off Missouri Ballot
Aug 24 2022 // An anti-drug group on Monday announced support for a lawsuit to take a recreational marijuana legalization proposal off Missouri’s November ballot. Jefferson City resident Joy Sweeney filed the lawsuit Friday with...
Missouri Home Explosion Death Toll Grows to 3
Aug 22 2022 // A young mother is the third member of her family to die in a gas explosion at her Missouri home, authorities said last Friday. Myranda Gale Golden, 22, was hurt Monday when her home in the far southern Missouri town of...
AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Missouri’s Cameron Mutual
Aug 19 2022 // AM Best has downgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bb” (Fair) from “bb+” (Fair) and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B (Fair) of Cameron Mutual Insurance...
Gas Explosion at Missouri Home Kills 1, Injures 9
Aug 17 2022 // A gas explosion Monday at a southeast Missouri home killed one person and injured nine others, authorities said. The explosion happened around 7 a.m. in Wyatt, a town of about 280 people that’s about 130 miles (210...
Missouri Voters to Consider Recreational Marijuana Legalization
Aug 15 2022 // A campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Missouri gathered enough signatures to make it on the November ballot, Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced last week. If voters approve the constitutional...
Inszone Acquires Missouri’s First Bosnian Insurance
Aug 11 2022 // Inszone Insurance Services announced the acquisition of First Bosnian Insurance, providing the second acquisition in the state of Missouri. First Bosnian Insurance opened in 2005 with the goal of helping the growing...
Missouri Insurance Department to Assist Residents After St. Louis Flooding
Aug 2 2022 // Missouri Department of Commerce & Insurance announced that consumer specialists will be at Multi-Agency Resource Centers (MARC) to assist residents impacted by recent flooding in the St. Louis region. The specialists...
Officials Investigate Missouri Theme Park Worker’s Death
Jul 27 2022 // An employee of Silver Dollar City near Branson, Missouri has died from head injuries while working at the park, federal officials said. The employee was hospitalized Wednesday with “head injuries allegedly sustained...
Missouri Limestone Quarry to Pay $210K EPA Penalty
Jul 25 2022 // Trager Limestone LLC, which operates the Nettleton Limestone Quarry in Caldwell County, Missouri, has agreed to pay a $210,000 civil penalty and perform watershed restoration at a cost of over $300,000, as part of a...
Missouri Man Sues Bass Pro for Not Honoring Lifetime Warranty on Socks
Jul 19 2022 // A Missouri man says in a class-action lawsuit against Bass Pro that the outdoor outfitter is refusing to honor its lifetime warranty on socks. Kent Slaughter of Springfield said that after years of exchanging his...
Lawsuits Filed After Deadly Missouri Amtrak Crash
Jul 5 2022 // The first lawsuits have been filed only days after an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that left four people dead and injured up to 150 others. In a federal lawsuit filed last Friday, surviving...
