Tag Archives: Missouri

St. Louis’s Fox affiliate reports: Anheuser-Busch will end its sponsorship of PrideFest, the annual LGBTQIA festival in downtown St. Louis, after more than 30 years of partnership. Pride St. Louis announced the decision Tuesday morning, expressing sadness over losing such a historic supporter. The festival, which is scheduled for June 28 and 29 at Soldiers Memorial Park, is facing a …

Jefferson City’s KJLU reports: A former church youth ministry volunteer in Phelps County pleaded guilty in federal court to a child pornography offense. Bradley Colvin, 52, of Rolla, was arrested last March following a Missouri State Highway Patrol investigation into online child pornography. Colvin was identified as a suspect after he shared child pornography online with a person who was …

Kansas City’s ABC affiliate reports: Police arrested former Clay County Republican Election Director Patty Lamb in Gallatin County, Montana, on Wednesday, five months after she failed to appear in a Clay County court on two felony financial crime charges. A probable cause statement filed on July 17, 2024, accuses the longtime county election co-director of more than $15,000 in financial …

St. Louis’s Fox affiliate reports: Legislation introduced in Missouri would create a list of “at risk” pregnant women in the state in order to “reduce the number of preventable abortions.” House Bill 807, nicknamed the “Save MO Babies Act,” was proposed by Republican state Rep. Phil Amato. The bill summary states that, if passed, Missouri would create a registry of …

The Washington Post reports: Missouri’s attorney general has sued Starbucks, accusing it of engaging in discrimination with its diversity, equity and inclusion policies and alleging that such initiatives have made the coffee giant’s workforce “more female and less white.” The federal lawsuit filed by Andrew Bailey, a Republican, accuses Starbucks of engaging in “systemic racial, sexual, and sexual orientation discrimination” …

Kansas City’s NBC affiliate reports: A group of Christian counselors and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey have filed a lawsuit against the city of Kansas City and Jackson County over their conversion-therapy bans. In 2023, the Jackson County Legislature passed an ordinance banning the practice. The city of Kansas City banned conversion therapy in 2019, an effort led by KCMO …

Law & Crime reports: A Jan. 6 rioter from Missouri who made headlines for swiping Nancy Pelosi’s name plate during the Capitol attack went from pardon to prison this week as she was sentenced Wednesday for causing a fatal crash while driving drunk on the wrong side of the highway. Emily Hernandez, 25, got hit with a 10-year sentence by …

St. Louis’s NBC affiliate reports: Missouri’s near-total abortion ban was deemed unenforceable by a judge on Friday, but some aspects of the state’s laws against abortion remain in place, even after voters enshrined reproductive rights into the state’s constitution by passing Amendment 3. Jackson County Judge Jerri Zhang ruled Missouri’s total ban, eighteen-week ban, fourteen-week ban, eight-week ban, and “reasons …

St. Louis’s Fox affiliate reports: A Missouri representative is proposing a repeal of a state law that currently prevents citizens with a felony history from running for a local and state office. Republican Rep. Michael Davis of Belton, a suburb of Kansas City, pre-filed House Bill 318 on Dec. 3. The bill, named the “Donald J. Trump Election Qualification Act,” …

NBC News reports: A Missouri couple has been charged with child abuse after they allegedly performed a botched circumcision on their child at home, despite lacking the medical expertise, resulting in the child going to the hospital. Tyler Wade Gibson and his wife, Bailey Alexus Gibson, were charged with child abuse. Tyler Wade Gibson was further charged with performing an …

NPR reports: Missourians voted to legalize abortion up until fetal viability and override the state’s current ban on nearly all abortions, according to a call by the Associated Press. Legal challenges are expected from anti-abortion groups but if the Tuesday vote stands it will enshrine abortion rights into the constitution over the objections of the heavily Republican state leadership. Missouri …

The Hill reports: Federal judges denied two states’ requests to bar the Justice Department (DOJ) from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Both Missouri and Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls. Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state said any monitoring would “displace state election authorities,” and …

Via press release: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, in conjunction with the Missouri Attorney General’s office, filed a lawsuit today to block the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) continued attempts to interfere with polling places on Election Day. Ashcroft serves as the chief election officer in Missouri. “No one is above the law,” Ashcroft said. “The law clearly and specifically …

Ars Technica reports: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said he is investigating Google, claiming that the tech giant censors conservative speech and manipulated search results about Donald Trump. The New York Post quoted a Bailey spokesperson saying that “evidence has come to light that Google is deemphasizing conservative speech or content—such as putting conservative reporting on Page 11 rather than …

St. Louis’s NBC affiliate reports: At a recent campaign stop in the suburbs of St. Louis, reporters asked Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to list his top three accomplishments he felt made him worthy of re-election for a second six-year term. “We got new housing for our soldiers in Fort Leonard Wood,” he replied. Hawley’s campaign routinely repeats this claim in …

Kansas City’s CBS affiliate reports: 29-year-old Andrew Lovisone of Greenwood, Missouri, was arrested on Sept. 17, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office reported. A video on First Baptist Church Peculiar’s Facebook page shows Lovisone’s ordination service there back in July. He was called as an associate pastor. He is charged with two counts of first-degree promoting child pornography, which is a …

The Joplin Globe reports: Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau. The diocese and Bishop Edward Rice are listed as defendants in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District …

St. Louis’s ABC affiliate reports: The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned a lower court decision that would have removed a question on legalizing abortion from the November ballot. The court heard arguments Tuesday morning and Chief Justice Mary Russell issued a decision a little after 2 p.m. Tuesday. The judges voted by majority to reverse Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher …

The New York Times reports: A Missouri court late Friday moved toward striking a ballot measure in November that would ask voters whether to establish a right to abortion in the state Constitution. Judge Christopher Limbaugh of Cole County Circuit Court sided with anti-abortion lawmakers and activists who said that the abortion rights groups that gathered signatures to sponsor the …

The Christian Post reports: A new lawsuit seeks to disqualify a ballot measure that would establish a right to abortion in the Missouri Constitution as several states will give their voters an opportunity to weigh in on abortion this fall. In a statement posted on Facebook, Missouri State Rep. Hannah Kelly announced the filing of a lawsuit seeking to invalidate …