FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — The wife of a slain Missouri Ku Klux Klan leader says she, not her son, pulled the trigger. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Malissa Ancona and her son, Paul Edward Jinkerson Jr., face first-degree murder charges in the February 2017 death of Frank Ancona, who called himself an “imperial wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan. […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Thirty-three priests or religious brothers in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, have been “credibly accused” and/or removed from the ministry over sexual abuse of minors, the bishop of the central Missouri diocese said Thursday. Bishop W. Shawn McKnight released a complete list of the names that followed […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri has joined the long list of states allowing medical marijuana, but it’ll likely be late next year at the earliest before people with cancer, HIV and other serious ailments will be able to obtain it. Missouri became the 31st state to approve medical marijuana when voters on Tuesday approved Amendment 2 . […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican leaders are calling for a federal investigation into political mailings that slam Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. The mailers do not have required disclaimers saying who is paying for them. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Treasurer Eric Schmitt said the mailers appear designed to help […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman who reported a 4-year-old Missouri boy missing about a week before the child’s body was found was charged Wednesday in his death. Quatavia Givens, 26, was charged with neglect or abuse of a child resulting in death. Investigators said Givens was caring for Darnell Gray on Oct. 24 […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri election officials are expecting voter turnout in Tuesday’s midterm election to be the highest in more than two decades. Estimates submitted to the state by local election officials project that nearly 2.3 million people will cast ballots. That would equal almost 55 percent of registered voters. The last presidential […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s multimillion-dollar bingo game industry has been in steady decline but could find relief under a ballot proposal that aims to alleviate a shortage of bingo workers. The Amendment 4 proposal on the Nov. 6 ballot would remove language from the Missouri Constitution that restricts bingo advertising and changes prerequisites for […]
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A second brother has been sentenced in the beating death of an 84-year-old woman more than three decades ago during a break-in at her eastern Missouri home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 53-year-old Cecil McBenge was ordered Thursday to spend 15 years in prison for second-degree murder in the death […]