Employees at Missouri’s veterans home could see wages climb as turnover soars in the state. This comes as Gov. Mike Parson and legislators attempt to boost the pay for all state workers to stop high turnover rates and growing overtime ...

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Employees at Missouri’s veterans home could see wages climb as turnover soars in the state. This comes as Gov. Mike Parson and legislators attempt to boost the pay for all state workers to stop high turnover rates and growing overtime ...

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Gov. Mike Parson has elevated Judge Becky J.W. Borthwick to the circuit bench in Greene County. Borthwick, who had been an associate circuit judge, fills a circuit position that the General Assembly established in 2019. Parson’s office noted that she ...

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Former Democratic State Rep. Michael Colona has wanted to be a judge for years. It was a Republican governor who made it happen. On Oct. 18, Gov. Mike Parson appointed Colona as an associate circuit judge in St. Louis. Colona ...

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Gov. Mike Parson appointed Associate Circuit Judge Kevin Selby as a circuit judge for the 40th Judicial Circuit in southwestern Missouri. The Missouri General Assembly created the judgeship in 2018. The circuit comprises Newton and McDonald counties. Selby, a Republican, ...

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Children in St. Louis have been the victim of homicides at 10 times the national rate for decades, according to a newspaper’s analysis of FBI data. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that the city’s child homicide rate is far ...

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Children in St. Louis have been the victim of homicides at 10 times the national rate for decades, according to a newspaper’s analysis of FBI data. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Friday that the city’s child homicide rate is far ...

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Gov. Mike Parson’s campaign manager will be questioned by lawyers representing Planned Parenthood about his involvement in a decision to deny a new license to Missouri’s only abortion provider. An administrative hearing commissioner ruled last week that attorneys can question Steele Shippy, ...

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Gov. Mike Parson has named two attorneys to state boards. W. Dudley McCarter of Behr, McCarter & Potter in St. Louis was appointed to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and ...

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Gov. Mike Parson appointed judges to positions in Jackson and St. Charles counties. Corey L. Atkins, currently an associate circuit judge, was chosen to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Jackson County Circuit Judge Jack R. Grate. Atkins, ...

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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is sending highway patrol troopers and other state workers to St. Louis as part of an effort to fight the surge of violent crime that has included the killings of more than a dozen children in ...

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