All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 3 2022 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman’s death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust...
Nov 2 2022 // A Missouri state employee has been indicted on three federal felony charges and accused of using her position to send about $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others.According to the...
Oct 28 2022 // Seven people suffered what were described as minor injuries after an amusement park train derailed in Branson, Missouri.The derailment happened Wednesday evening at Silver Dollar City. Six patrons and one employee were...
Oct 26 2022 // WOOLDRIDGE, Mo. (AP) – Roughly half of a small Missouri town burned Saturday after a wildfire spread quickly from a farm field and destroyed or heavily damaged 23 buildings, officials said.No one died and only one person...
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 a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...