Joplin hit by devastating tornado, recovery underway
Updated at 8:20 a.m. May 24: According to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, 117 people are now confirmed dead. The latest information from DPS is available here . Updated at 7:19 a.m. May 24:...
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Mo. changes child care rules to further prevent SIDS For the first time in two decades, Missouris child care rules have been updated. Effective this month, licensed child cares must put infants to...
View ArticleMo. Senate committee holds public hearing on possible state health exchange
Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. An interim state senate committee is trying to figure out whether, and, if so, how Missouri should create a state health exchange. During the...
View ArticleStudy: Fewer smokers in the Show-Me state
Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report . A decade ago, more than one in four Missourians smoked. Now, only about one in five smoke, and those who do smoke are doing so less often . Thats...
View ArticleMo. housing panel approves tax credits for Berkeley, Joplin, those with...
Updated at 12:38 p.m. with information on tax credits for those with special needs Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. Missouris low-income housing agency has approved $100 million...
View ArticleFor Joplin's children, tornado's effects persist
The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., in May destroyed a third of the town and killed 162 people. While the storm lasted just minutes, the psychological damage continues, and the community is mobilizing to...
View ArticleMo. gets $20M grant to train underemployed for health services sector
Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. Missouri has received a $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to train more than 4,000 underemployed adults in the health services...
View ArticleKansas City-area bishop charged for not alerting police about porn
Reporting from KCURs Dan Verbeck used in this report. A state grand jury empanelled in Kansas City has indicted the Bishop and the Catholic Diocese on charges of failing to report child abuse. It is...
View ArticleMorning headlines: Monday, October 17, 2011
Cardinals win 18th pennant The St. Louis Cardinals are the National League champions following an outstanding offensive display in Milwaukee last night. David Freese belted one of the Cardinals three...
View ArticleTobacco tax petitions seek approval for circualtion
Reporting by KCURs Elana Gordon was used in this story. Two petitions that would affect taxes on tobacco products in Missouri are going through the approval process for circulation. One would give...
View ArticleWords "inevitable" and "job-losses" used together in U. of Mo. system budget...
Reporting from KCURs Dan Verbeck used in this report. The word inevitable is being teamed with job-losses if the University of Missouri system is unable to work its way out of an expected 12.5 percent...
View ArticleIll. legislative commission rejects Quinn closures
Updated at 6:15 am Wednesday. Reporting from Amanda Vinicky in Springfield and Jacob McCleland in Cape Girardeau was used in this report. An Illinois legislative commission has signaled its opposition...
View ArticleComing to a Missouri ballot this fall: another health care referendum
A report from KCURs Elana Gordon. This fall, voters in Missouri will face a number of decisions: picking state and congressional representatives, the President. But also on the ballot will be a measure...
View ArticleMorning headlines- Thursday, June 28, 2012
Nixon defends, clarifies comments on health insurance mandate Elana Gordon contributed reporting from Kansas City, Mo. With a decision on the federal health law nearing, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon...
View ArticleKinder announces plans to challenge Mo. health care ballot language
Elana Gordon of KCUR reported for this story. Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is once again filing suit against a health care measure. He and some other Republican lawmakers have announced plans to...
View ArticleMorning headlines - Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy protection St. Louis-based Patriot Coal has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the company lists about $3.6 billion in...
View ArticleMo. Supreme Court throws out caps on medical malpractice
Updated 4:33 p.m. with reporting by KCURs Elana Gordon. Missouris Supreme Court has effectively overturned state caps on non-economic damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice cases. The court...
View ArticleMorning headlines: Thursday, August 9, 2012
McCaskill gears up for campaign against Akin Senator Claire McCaskill stopped at a sheet metal shop in Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday morning to kick off her campaign for the general election. The...
View ArticleMorning headlines: Friday, September 7, 2012
Search ongoing for man who shot police officers overnight St. Louis police are searching for a suspect who shot an officer in the arm. The 30-year-old officer was was not seriously injured. He returned...
View ArticleFederal judge blocks two of Missouri's abortion restrictions
Updated at 11 a.m. April 20 with Gov. Eric Greitens' comment — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Missouri’s restrictions requiring abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges and abortion...
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