Monthly Archives: May 2019

ROGERS, Ark. (AP)   The son of Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has been arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Police say William Asa Hutchinson III was arrested Saturday morning in Rogers. Rogers Police Department spokesman Keith Foster says

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson laid out a simple agenda when he began his first legislative session as the state’s chief executive. He described it as workforce development and infrastructure. When the session

EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. (AP)   Scientists are preparing to end a seven-year program that has reintroduced the first federally endangered species to Missouri because the beetles are showing signs they could survive on their own. The St. Louis

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)   Missouri Democratic lawmakers are slamming a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. House Minority Leader Crystal Quade says there’s no liberty in Missouri when government strips women of control of their

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)   Missouri school children could get an additional August weekend at home under legislation given final approval. A bill passed Friday would push back the start date for public schools by an extra four days.

MONETT, Mo. (AP)   Authorities say skeletal remains found last year in southwest Missouri are those of a Springfield man missing since 2012. The Barry County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday the remains are those of 35-year-old Ronald Jessup Brightwell.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Walmart has released additional plans for its new 350-acre (142-hectare) northwest Arkansas campus that will include four quadrants connected by bike and walking paths, an on-campus childcare facility and a fitness center. The

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri voters will get a chance to decide whether to impose term limits on all of the state’s top executive officials. Lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a proposed constitutional amendment that

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are renewing a truce offer with Kansas in a long-running battle over businesses in the Kansas City area. Legislation given final approval Friday would prohibit Missouri tax incentives from being

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have approved a measure that could authorize $300 million of bonds to repair hundreds of bridges. The vote Friday by the state House sends Republican Gov. Mike Parson one of

SIOUX FALLS, Iowa (AP) – Arkansas-based meat processor Tyson Foods is suing a federal agency for $2.4 million, saying it had to destroy 8,000 carcasses because a federal meat inspector lied about checking hogs at a plant

    BELLA VISTA, Ark. (AP) – Officials say an environmental engineering firm will soon begin extinguishing an underground dump fire that has been burning since July at a former unlicensed northwest Arkansas dump. KFSM reports prep work

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The top Democrat in Arkansas’ majority-Republican House who resigned from office is taking a job leading the Little Rock mayor’s staff. Mayor Frank Scott on Friday announced he had hired former Rep.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A retired Springfield teacher has been found not guilty of sexually abusing a child. A jury on Thursday acquitted 74-year-old Danny Carroll of two counts of first-degree child molestation. Carroll worked more than

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ An advisory board has delayed a vote on whether to recommend banning Little Rock School District employees from using medical marijuana on district property. The Little Rock School District is under state

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Missouri lawmakers have passed legislation limiting the number of young children at in-home child-care providers. State law currently limits unlicensed child-care providers to supervising four children who are not relatives but contains

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Missouri lawmakers have passed a measure that could send former President Harry Truman back to the U.S. Capitol. The measure given final approval Thursday would put Truman’s statue in place of one

    VANDALIA, Mo. (AP) – A judge has found a Missouri mother guilty in the death of her infant son, who died shortly after he was born in their home in northeast Missouri. Circuit Judge Wendy Wexler

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An oddly named tree and an odd-looking salamander could soon gain fame in Missouri. Lawmakers sent the governor a bill Thursday that would declare the pawpaw tree the “state fruit tree of

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A monthly survey of rural bankers in parts of 10 Plains and Western states shows they’re rapidly losing confidence in the region’s farm economy. The Rural Mainstreet survey for May, released Thursday, shows

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Senate has passed legislation that would do away with vehicle safety inspections for thousands of Missourians and let adult motorcyclists cruise the highways without helmets. The legislation passed Thursday by

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Blytheville is transforming a decommissioned Air Force base into a Cold War Museum. The Arkansas Business reports the city publicized plans in late April to build the Blytheville Air Force Base National Cold

IONIA, Mo. (AP) – A 47-year-old woman is dead and a suspect is on the run after a shooting in central Missouri. Benton County Sheriff’s Office says officers received a call Wednesday evening from Khristy Clark, who

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) – A 35-year-old woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for statutory rape involving two 15-year-old boys. The Joplin Globe reports Amanda Morton, of Mount Vernon, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two

MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A tractor-trailer driver who told authorities, “God told me to do it” after causing a deadly southwestern Missouri crash has been sentenced to five years of probation. The Springfield News-Leader reports 35-year-old Adam

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the capital murder convictions of an inmate serving life in prison for the deaths of two men whose bodies were found inside a crushed vehicle at

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A lobbyist for a medical marijuana trade group is co-hosting a high-dollar fundraiser for Gov. Mike Parson next week as officials finalize rules for the state’s fledgling medical marijuana program, which is

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has passed a wide-ranging bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy, acting only hours after Alabama’s governor signed a near-total abortion ban into law. Senators voted 24-10

NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart is posting another quarter of same-stores sales growth and profits topped Wall Street expectations. The company on Thursday reported first quarter net income of $3.84 billion, or $1.33. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring

ELDON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a woman and four children have been killed in a central Missouri crash. Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Scott White says 30-year-old Radiance Wright lost control of her westbound vehicle around

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have approved new requirements for a state demographer responsible for drawing state House and Senate districts under a voter-approved constitutional amendment. The bill given final approval Thursday by the House

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The top Democrat in Arkansas’ House and the lawmaker who’s pushed for removing the Confederate designation from the state’s flag is stepping down from the Legislature. Rep. Charles Blake said Thursday he’s

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson is calling for a vote on a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Parson on Wednesday said the bill could make Missouri “one of

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ governor has released a plan to expand access to high-speed broadband communities with more than 500 residents by 2022. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday detailed the Arkansas State Broadband Plan, which

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas medical marijuana cultivators who intend to manufacture edibles will face some restrictions on what products they can produce and what those products can look like. Currently, only the plant’s flower is

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Hearing aids would be easier to get for poor Missourians under a bill awaiting the governor’s signature.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to the measure, sending it to Republican

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri senators are considering banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Democrats in the Republican-led Senate on Wednesday slammed pending the legislation. Lawmakers have a Friday deadline to pass bills. The only

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Undergraduate students at all University of Missouri System schools will face a 5 percent increase in tuition for the next academic year.The UM System Board of Curators on Wednesday approved the increase, which

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s top prosecutor says a proposal to reduce the workloads of attorneys who represent indigent defendants doesn’t protect the interests of the public.KCUR-FM reports Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt raised concerns Tuesday

PLATTSBURG, Mo. (AP) – A former northwest Missouri teacher and wrestling coach who pleaded guilty to 13 misdemeanor counts involving inappropriate contact with girls will serve no more time in jail under a deal with prosecutors. KQ2.com

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) – A Texas woman has admitted to her role in the deaths of a couple who were killed at a Kansas fair after one suspect ordered the killings as part of a “carnival

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The home of the St. Louis Blues could receive $70 million in state subsidies over two decades to help pay for renovations. Legislation that received final approval Wednesday in the Missouri House

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Leaders in Little Rock have delayed a decision on Mayor Frank Scott Jr.’s proposal to cut the city’s expenditures by about $2.1 million for the rest of 2019. The city’s $210 million

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas inmate accused in the beating death of a jail guard in 2016 will remain in the state hospital for mental health treatment. Tramell Hunter is accused in the December 2016 killing

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – State regulators say the first two medical marijuana vendors in Arkansas sold over 13 pounds of the drug during the first few days of sales. Arkansas’ medical marijuana program officially debuted on

NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart is rolling out next-day delivery on its most popular items, raising the stakes in the retail shipping wars. The nation’s largest retailer says Tuesday it’s been building its own network of more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri senators are set to take up one of the nation’s most restrictive proposed abortion bans. The Republican-led Senate is expected to consider legislation to ban most abortions after eight weeks pregnancy

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)   A bill expanding the list of crimes that could be expunged from a person’s record has won final approval in the Missouri Legislature. The legislation passed Tuesday by the House would add stealing, credit

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)   Police have arrested several protesters who briefly shut down a downtown Little Rock intersection while demanding prosecution of a white officer who fatally shot a black motorist in February. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports about

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)   A Republican proposal to change a new constitutional amendment on redistricting has stalled in a Senate committee after not enough Republicans showed up to support it. Senate Fiscal Oversight Committee Chairman Mike Cunningham said

A Senate filibuster against a business incentive bill backed by Gov. Mike Parson has passed the 24-hour mark with no immediate end in sight. Republicans in the Senate’s Conservative Caucus were blocking all work in the Senate

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP)   Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill to block local officials from regulating industrial farms more strictly than the state does. House lawmakers voted 103-44 Tuesday to send the measure to Gov. Mike Parson. Industrial

EL DORADO, Ark. (AP)   Authorities say no one was hurt when a twin-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing after its front landing gear stopped working. The El Dorado Fire Department says two flight instructors were

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)   Authorities are investigating after an inmate at an Arkansas prison died from an apparent suicide this week. The Department of Correction on Tuesday said staff at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys found

    SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) _ Police have announced plans to conduct a follow-up investigation into a racist video that a Springfield high school student posted on Snapchat. The Springfield News-Leader reports that a Kickapoo High School student

    SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) _ Authorities say a Springfield man has died from injuries suffered in a weekend house fire. The Springfield Fire Department identified the victims as 32-year-old Kenneth Dodd. The Springfield News-Leader reports that he

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An academic says Chinese tariffs and bad weather during harvest season have hurt Arkansas’ pecan industry. Pecans are the state’s top nut. The U.S. produces around 80% of the world’s pecans. But

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Lawmakers in the Conservative Caucus are blocking work from getting done in the Missouri Senate in protest of a proposed incentives package for General Motors. The group of Republican senators took turns

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring the famous World War II battleship the USS Missouri that was the site of Japan’s unconditional surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo