The Latest Breaking News from JEFFERSON CITY

Missouri House scraps Senate-approved map of state's congressional districts

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House on Thursday jettisoned a Senate-approved blueprint for the state’s congressional maps, with House members again urging senators to meet to work out differences.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Apr 1, 2022

Hard-line Missouri senator pushes to reject talks with House on congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — A St. Charles County senator kicked off business in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday by delaying any action in protest of proposed talks with the House on a compromise congressional map.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Mar 30, 2022

Penalty for assisting abortion in case of ectopic pregnancy removed from measure in Missouri House

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Following an outpouring of outrage, a plan to outlaw abortions in the case of life-threatening ectopic pregnancies was removed from a House bill Tuesday afternoon.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Mar 23, 2022

Missouri Republicans trade jabs as race for US Senate kicks off

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Nearly four years after he resigned from office and retreated from the capital city, former Gov. Eric Greitens returned Tuesday to officially launch his bid for U.S. Senate.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 22, 2022

Police probe shows Missouri data weakness existed a decade​ before Post-Dispatch exposed it

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A police investigation released Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education webpage had been in place since 2011 and that no one had noticed the flaw until a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist pointed out the weakness.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 21, 2022

Biden administration sues Missouri to overturn act that declares federal gun laws ‘invalid’

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Missouri in federal court, seeking to overturn the state’s Second Amendment law that prohibits local police from helping enforce certain federal gun restrictions.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

Prosecutor declines to charge Post-Dispatch reporter targeted by Parson

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist will not be charged after pointing out a weakness in a state computer database, the prosecuting attorney for Cole County said Friday.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 12, 2022

Measure derided as the ‘Make Murder Legal Act’ killed in Missouri Senate committee

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Senate panel on Thursday terminated a proposal one county prosecutor called the “Make Murder Legal Act.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 11, 2022

‘Nuclear option’ possible to force vote in Missouri Senate on stalled congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Debate over Missouri’s next congressional map stretched into its third day on Wednesday, and hard-line GOP Sen. Bob Onder wondered whether GOP leaders were planning to cut off debate and force a vote.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 10, 2022

Missouri Supreme Court tosses signature rules that derailed challenge to abortion law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed two laws that it said stymied efforts by abortion rights activists to put the state's strict new abortion law to a public vote in 2019.

Tribune News Service · Feb 9, 2022