All the headlines from our Missouri Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2009 // President Barack Obama has declared North Dakota a federal disaster area because of statewide flooding.North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven says the move means the federal government will pay 75 percent of state and local...
Mar 13 2009 // Lawmakers in the Missouri State Senate have come up with a plan that would add tax credits for businesses that add jobs with above-average wages and health insurance. The plan is a dramatic overhaul of the job-creation...
Mar 12 2009 // Attorneys for former Gov. Matt Blunt are citing executive privilege while asking an appeals court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a former staff lawyer.Blunt lost a similar argument before a trial judge last fall, but...
Mar 10 2009 // With the prospect of another season of spring flooding fast approaching, the Army Corps of Engineers insists the earthen flood levees outmatched by the Mississippi River last summer are rebuilt and ready. Not...
Mar 9 2009 // The Missouri Supreme Court recently rejected labor union challenges to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured workers to get benefits under the workers’ compensation system.Business groups praised the...
Mar 9 2009 // Can’t Figure“I can’t figure out what amount (Blunt) is convicted of.” —District Judge Bruce Romanick in ordering Sandy Blunt, the former director of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety and...
Mar 9 2009 // GAO compared the number of NFIP policies in a given area, as of September 2006, with the total number of county flood declarations from January 1980 to June 2008, cumulative flood claims payments from January 1978 to April...
Mar 5 2009 // Kansas City-headquarted Ascension Insurance, Inc. has acquired Dennis Bartlett agency of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.The Bartlett agency specializes in medical malpractice coverage and will join Employers Mutual, Inc., a...
Feb 26 2009 // The state Supreme Court rejected labor union challenges Tuesday to a 2005 law that limited the ability of some injured Missourians to get benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation system.Business groups...
Feb 24 2009 // A rash of cattle thefts in southwest Missouri has prompted two organizations to offer a total of $10,000 in rewards for help catching the crooks.Authorities report that hundreds of animals have been loaded onto trucks and...
Feb 22 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department.John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
Feb 10 2009 // State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. of Columbus, Ohio, has completed its purchase of Rockhill Insurance Group of Kansas City, Mo. Rockhill writes approximately $120 million in specialty property and casualty direct...
Feb 9 2009 // Gov. Jay Nixon has picked a Swiss Re insurance claims executive to lead the Missouri insurance department.John Huff, a Missouri native, has worked since July 2008 at the Zurich headquarters of Swiss Re, one of the...
Feb 6 2009 // It’s failed repeatedly in the past, but state Transportation Director Pete Rahn is optimistic that a bill stepping up Missouri’s seat belt enforcement may pass this year.Rahn wants lawmakers to allow police to...
Feb 2 2009 // In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not room for one more sleeping bag on the shelter floor. The creative are flushing their...
Jan 29 2009 // Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corp. reported that Roger Forystek has joined the company as president of its insurance subsidiary, UMB Insurance. He will be responsible for overseeing the insurance company and managing...
Jan 25 2009 // A new Missouri law was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels but the lack of specialized insurance is proving to be an obstacle.The idea was for the...
Jan 11 2009 // Lighting Up“We are hoping this will reduce the number of fire fatalities.” —Iowa State Fire Marshall James Kenkel comments on a new law that he and others hope will reduce the number of fatal fires in the...
Jan 8 2009 // Incoming Attorney General Chris Koster picks a western Missouri prosecutor and a former member of Gov. Matt Blunt’s Cabinet for top staff positions. On Jan. 6 Koster said that Lafayette County prosecutor Page Bellamy...
Jan 5 2009 // Problems have arisen with a new Missouri law that was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels.The idea was for the homeowners to be able to send any excess...