Missouri Senate passes education budget

Package to address Missouri’s childcare crisis waits its turn in legislative line

The Missouri Legislature has two weeks left in its regular session and a top priority affecting the state’s families and workforce hangs in the balance. Gov. Mike Kehoe and several other lawmakers in both parties want to pass a childcare tax credit package …

Fight is not dead to change Missouri’s paid sick leave requirements

Missouri’s new paid sick leave requirements have begun but the fight to change those requirements is not over this legislative session. From mid to late April, State Senate Democrats successfully blocked two attempted votes on a bill that would roll back …

Kansas City, Missouri, City Council approves efforts to stop predatory towing

KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne covers issues surrounding government accountability and solutions. Share your story with Isabella. Big changes are coming to the regulations covering towing businesses in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City, Missouri, …

Arkansas man arrested for burglaries of Missouri, Iowa school districts

OTTUMWA, Iowa. (KCTV) - A multi-state investigation led to the arrest of an Arkansas man believed to have burglarized more than two dozen school districts in Iowa and Missouri. The Wapello County, Iowa, Sheriff’s Office says that a months-long multi-state …

Missouri man charged with manslaughter after fatal Kansas shooting

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter nearly one week after a fatal shooting took the life of a man in Kansas. Jackson County, Missouri, Circuit Court records filed on Tuesday, April 29, indicate that …

Flags at all Missouri firehouses to fly at half-staff in honor of slain firefighter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Flags have been ordered to fly at half-staff at all firehouses across the state of Missouri as friends and family of a Kansas City firefighter lay him to rest. Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe announced on Thursday, May 1, that in …

Arkansas man charged with burglarizing 16 school districts across Iowa and Missouri

An Arkansas man is behind bars following a multi-district investigation into burglaries at schools across Iowa and Missouri.According to the Wapello County Sheriff's Office, the Cardinal Community School District reported break-ins at its elementary, …

Bodies of missing girls have been recovered from Missouri River, first responders say

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - Nebraska authorities say two bodies pulled from the Missouri River are those of the last two girls who had been missing since mid-April. The Omaha Fire Department said it sends its condolences to the girls’ families and …

3 Bodies Found in Missouri River Believed to be Girls Who Went Missing While Fishing

The bodies of three girls who went missing last month have been found. Lah Tray Moo, 18, Laiana Green, 18, and Eh Cress Moo, 11, disappeared while on an April 15 fishing trip on the Missouri River in Omaha, Neb., WOWT reported. One of the girls slipped …