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(MissouriNet) — Hundreds of Vietnam veterans from Missouri gather at the Capitol this morning.  The General Assembly has invited them for a special ceremony recognizing their service in the Vietnam era. Senate Military Affairs Committee Chairman Bill White served in the Marines. He says they’re working on a bill this …

A Jefferson City woman is arrested after police say she broke up a fight by shooting a gun.  Police say Dixie Deluca got in the middle of the fight involving a bunch of juveniles, one of which was her kid, Tuesday afternoon on Clark Avenue near Lincoln University. JCPD says …

Did you vote to approve the Clean Missouri amendment? That’s the one that limited lobbyist gifts and potentially restructured legislative districts … St. Louis-area Representative Dottie Bailey is part of the faction pushing to send Clean Missouri back to the voters. The House needs one more vote to send the …

Update — The city’s Britt Smith tells KWOS News his crew will still check time limits on parking. They will be logging license plate numbers instead of physically marking tires. No more chalk marks on your tires .. at least in Jefferson City. Parking enforcers are no longer marking parked …

(A-P) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is seeking a major disaster declaration in response to severe flooding in March. Parson’s office said Wednesday that the Republican governor is asking President Donald Trump for federal assistance for 13 counties in northwest and southeast Missouri: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Carroll, Chariton, Holt, Mississippi, …

(MissouriNet)–The Missouri House has given preliminary approval to legislation that would ask voters whether to do away with parts of the voter-approved Clean Missouri amendment. The resolution aims to undo the portion letting the state auditor examine a nonpartisan demographer and requiring the demographer to draw legislative districts. Dean Plocher, …

(MissouriNet)–The Missouri Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in convicted murderer David Hosier’s death penalty appeal. Hosier was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2009 killing of Angela Gilpin in Jefferson City. Hosier’s public defender, Amy Bartholow, is asking for a new trial, saying Hosier’s trial counsel was ineffective. …

You may remember the stories out of St. Louis County where drivers were repeatedly pulled over and hit with expensive speeding tickets. The fact that some of those folks were jailed for not being able to pay their fines caught Tony Messenger’s attention … The Post – Dispatch’s Messenger won …

What ever happened to due process? That’s one question surrounding a bill in a Missouri House committee that’s designed to take guns away from anyone accused of domestic violence … Jefferson City Representative Rudy Veit is concerned the plan would infringe on 2nd Amendment rights even before someone in convicted …

Cheri Toalson Reisch took down her Twitter account last Friday. That was hours after she testified in federal court in a case connected to her use of the social media site. A Centralia attorney is arguing she’s violating his free speech rights by blocking him on Twitter. Reisch says this …