All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 11 2020 // Before the coronavirus outbreak, Saundra Andringa-Meuer was a healthy 61-year-old mother of six who never smoked or drank alcohol. Then she became seriously ill with the disease after traveling from her Wisconsin home to...
May 11 2020 // St. Charles, Mo.-based Strong Insurance Group has joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a network of more than 130 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Strong Insurance Group was founded by...
May 7 2020 // A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group’s lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor, of failing to adequately protect employees from the novel coronavirus at...
May 1 2020 // Prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man accused of setting fire to a Missouri mosque on April 24 with a hate crime and other counts.Nicholas Proffitt, who spent time in prison for defacing the Islamic Center of Cape...
Apr 30 2020 // Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis has sent a demand letter to Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai demanding financial restitution from the Communist Party of China (CPC) for...
Apr 30 2020 // The primary cause of the sinking of a tourist-carrying duck boat on a Missouri lake in July 2018, in which 17 people were killed, was the continued operation of the vessel during severe weather, despite severe weather...
Apr 28 2020 // Leigh Ann Blunt, a nationally recognized professor in the occupational safety and health field and member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) for 14 years, has been named ASSP’s 2020 William E....
Apr 27 2020 // A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are putting workers and the public at risk of contracting the coronavirus.The lawsuit, filed on April 23 by an...
Apr 27 2020 // The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone connected to a fire that badly damaged an Islamic center in southeastern Missouri and that coincided with the start of a holy month for...
Apr 23 2020 // The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit on April 21 against the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that nation’s officials are to blame for the global pandemic.The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the...
Apr 23 2020 // China on Wednesday slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd.”Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the legal action has “no...
Apr 21 2020 // Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), an insurance agency network organization with more than 130 independent insurance agency members in Missouri and Illinois, has created the Insuring Rural Communities Scholarship...
Apr 20 2020 // A Christian health care sharing ministry sold “inherently unfair and deceptive health plans” to Missouri residents and failed to provide them with coverage, a class action lawsuit alleges.The federal lawsuit...
Apr 17 2020 // Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance Inc. (MIAA), based in Lincoln, Neb., has hired Sam Stallard as an agency development field specialist for Kansas and Missouri.Stallard will be directly responsible for agency development...
Apr 14 2020 // Shelter Insurance, based in Columbia, Mo., and its subsidiaries AmShield Insurance, Haulers Insurance, and Say Insurance, is joining other insurers in offering assistance to auto insurance policyholders.The company said it...
Apr 13 2020 // Specialty insurance agencies Lawrence E. Smith & Associates (LESA) of greater St. Louis, Mo., and Scholastic Insurance of Florida (SIF) of greater Orlando, Fla., have been acquired by DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC...
Apr 2 2020 // With flood concerns already high in the Midwest, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is warning that many levees on the Missouri and Kansas rivers that were damaged during devastating floods last spring remain vulnerable to...
Apr 1 2020 // An eastern Missouri sheriff’s department has reached a $2 million settlement with a man who spent more than three years in prison for his wife’s killing before the conviction was overturned, his lawyers said.An...
Mar 15 2020 // Last Friday, American Family Insurance Co. closed a regional office out of concern that an employee may have been exposed to an airline passenger on a March 4 domestic flight who later tested positive for...
Mar 11 2020 // Missouri state senators have passed a wide-ranging bill that would ban marijuana-infused candy for medical use, an attempt to ensure children don’t accidentally eat the drug.The measure would ban candy, lollipops,...