Latest Missouri Headlines

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Missouri Officers Arrested for Allegedly Searching Womens’ Phones for Nude Photos

Nov 19 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri police officers were indicted separately this week and accused of similar crimes — pulling over women and searching their phones to find nude photos.The indictments of former Missouri...

Missouri Farmer Who Stars in Reality TV Series Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud

Nov 7 2024 // A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits.Steve A. McBee, 52,...

Former Principal of Missouri Boarding School Charged with Sex Crimes Involving Student

Oct 31 2024 // A former principal at a Christian boarding school in Missouri that closed in March amid abuse allegations has been charged with sex crimes involving a former student.Craig Wesley Smith Jr. was charged by the prosecutor in...

Missouri Jury Asked to Award More Than $6B in Preterm Formula Case

Oct 31 2024 // A lawyer for a Missouri mother on Wednesday asked a jury to make Abbott ABT.N and Reckitt’s RKT.L Mead Johnson pay a total of more than $6 billion in the latest trial over claims that the companies’ formulas...

Missouri Farm Cooperative Fined $241K for Lacking Proper Equipment

Oct 30 2024 // A Missouri grain cooperative could have prevented an employee’s fatal engulfment in a storage bin in May 2024 had it followed federal workplace safety requirements, the U.S. Department of Labor determined.Responding...

Hub Acquires Missouri’s AIG Agency

Oct 8 2024 // Hub International Limited (Hub) announced that it has acquired the assets of AIG Agency Inc. (d/b/a Associated Insurance Group). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in Maryland Heights, Missouri,...

Missouri Patient Infected with Bird Flu Without Animal Contact

Sep 10 2024 // A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday.This is the 14th person...

Court Tosses Missouri Law That Banned Police From Enforcing Federal Gun Laws

Aug 29 2024 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges overturned a Missouri law Monday that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws.The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of...

Missouri Football Field to Feature Shelter Insurance Logo in New Form of Advertisement

Aug 28 2024 // When the nationally ranked University of Missouri Tigers football team takes the field Thursday for its season opener against Murray State, fans will notice something unusual on the field: sponsored logos.A new rule change...

AM Best Revises Outlook for Missouri Farm Bureau Group

Aug 22 2024 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICRs) of “a-” (Excellent) of Farm...

88-Year-Old Missouri Victim in Boar’s Head Deli Meat Outbreak Underscores Risk

Aug 16 2024 // A lifelong lover of liverwurst, Sue Fleming relished the smoked sausage her husband brought home every few weeks from the grocery store deli.Patrick Fleming always made sure to buy Boar’s Head braunschweiger, the...

Rapper Nelly Arrested in Missouri for Lack of Insurance, Possession of Ecstasy

Aug 9 2024 // Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino, and the Missouri Highway Patrol said an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper’s attorney said an “overzealous”...

Missouri Trucking Company Sued for Refusing to Hire a Deaf Job Applicant

Aug 1 2024 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Missouri- based trucking company Transportation Management Group, doing business as Wilson Logistics, for violating federal law when it refused to hire a deaf...

Dozens of Catholic Priests and Nuns Accused of Child Abuse in Missouri Lawsuits

Jul 29 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is...

Novatae Acquires Missouri-Based Denali Specialty Group

Jul 15 2024 // Novatae Risk Group announced that it has acquired the assets of Denali Specialty Group, LLC of St. Louis, MO on July 1, 2024. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2019, Denali is a full-service insurance...

Missouri Fire Official Dies When Boat He Was in Capsizes During Water Rescue

Jul 10 2024 // COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An assistant fire chief in central Missouri died early Monday when the boat he was in capsized during a water rescue in a flash flood.The Boone County Fire Protection District said Matthew Tobben and...

Missouri Court Sides With Transgender Student in Case

Jul 1 2024 // BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A $4.2 million verdict that jurors ordered a Missouri school district to pay a transgender student is under consideration again.The Western District Missouri Court of Appeals found that a...

Ex-Staffers of Missouri Boarding School Face Suit Alleging Abuse of Students

Jun 28 2024 // JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yet another civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against a Missouri Christian boarding school by a former student accuses staffers of forced child labor, physical abuse and tactics aimed at hiding...

Mississippi River Flooding is Pushing People Out of Their Homes, Data Shows

Jun 12 2024 // WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. But persistent and sometimes devastating flooding has added to the woes of...

Missouri Appeals Court Sides With Transgender Student in Discrimination Case

Jun 11 2024 // BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A $4.2 million verdict that jurors ordered a Missouri school district to pay a transgender student is under consideration again.The Western District Missouri Court of Appeals found last Tuesday...