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Conference Committee recommends House pay raise plan
A final committee vote still must be taken.
Senate keeps pay raise plan on first test-vote
Nine senators want to cancel pay raises; got 15 votes
Wilson pleads guilty to federal charge
2 other men named in charge involving Columbia insurance company
Barely 24 hours after being indicted, former Missouri Gov. Roger Wilson this afternoon pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge of misappropriating $5,000 from the Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Co.
Appeals court orders new hearing in FSH employment case
The state Mental Health Department has sovereign immunity and can’t be sued for monetary damages in a worker’s compensation case, the Missouri Court of Appeals in Kansas City ruled Tuesday.
House committee recommends ESP passage
The House Utilities Committee on Thursday morning recommended the full House debate, and pass, a bill encouraging Missouri’s electric utilities to seek a Nuclear Regulatory Commission early site permit for another reactor at the AmerenMissouri site near Reform in Callaway County.
House panel hears comments on Callaway early site permit bill
The plan to have consumers help pay for the planning work on a proposed second nuclear reactor in Callaway County got its first hearing of the year Tuesday afternoon.
Fulton State Hospital bill sent to Senate
A Fulton State Hospital employee told state Rep. Jeanie Riddle last August that he sometimes had to work double shifts several days in a row.
Kansas City Dem could be Callaway’s new state senator
Unless there’s a change in the next couple of weeks, Callaway County’s state senator could be a Kansas City-based Democrat for the next two years.
Bustamante sentencing expected Wednesday morning
A Boston psychiatrist told Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce this morning that no scientific study has shown a connection between the anti-depressant drug Prozac and an increased incidents of suicides or violence, including murder.
Prozac part of Bustamante defense
Alyssa Bustamante’s prescription for Prozac may have helped lead her to killing Elizabeth Olten, 9, a consulting psychiatrist testified Monday afternoon.
