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Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are moving closer to a deal on canceling all or part of a scheduled drop in the ...
Missouri's 2013 legislative session has come to an end.The House and Senate each wrapped up their work Friday shortly aft...
Republicans in the Kansas House have drafted a new plan for cutting income taxes in hopes of breaking stalemate on tax issues...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have repealed a tax break for low-income seniors and disabled r...
The Kansas Legislature's top Republican leaders are acknowledging that their private negotiations on tax issues have hit ...
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle says her chamber and the House are narrowing their differences over canceling a scheduled...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has been pushing for a tax cut for two years. Today she signed a bill to cut the state's to...
Missouri lawmakers have passed a nearly $25 billion budget that could force Gov. Jay Nixon to choose between aiding child...
Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to an income tax cut for businesses and individuals that could reduce state reve...
The Oklahoma House has approved a $7.1 billion bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year, despite object...
Governor Sam Brownback and the Kansas Legislature's top GOP leaders are negotiating over additional cuts in income taxes ...
Governor Jay Nixon is warning of layoffs if legislators pass a budget that reduces money for Missouri's motor vehicle div...
A $7.1 billion general appropriations bill to fund state government for the upcoming fiscal year has cleared its first hu...
A 52-year-old Barton County man is facing child pornography charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday. T...
They'd been told all their lives they couldn't play, but last night, 47 people from the ages of 5 to 20 did just that...
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to finalize the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget. The House and Sena...
Two people are in custody for an assault and robbery that happened in Joplin back on April 17th. The victim said she drove to...
The Missouri House has passed a plan to increase funding for the state mental hospital, the Capitol and the park system.Democ...
People fired for missing work and not following company rules could have a harder time claiming unemployment benefits in Miss...
Three men are in custody after a reported kidnapping and robbery in Reeds Monday night. Captain Derek Walrod of the Jasper Co...
Neosho School District officials held an active school shooter safety drill last week. Staff participated in hands-on demonst...
There's been a great deal of talk about requiring states to collect sales taxes when you buy something online. Missouri S...
If you've got old prescription medicines around the house, you can safely get rid of them Saturday. There will be drug ta...
A bill passed by the Missouri Senate to grant $15-million to Joplin for road and curb repair after the May 2011 tornado i...
A Joplin 8th grade teacher who's on administrative leave is saying more about his situation. Randy Turner was placed on l...
The Joplin Humane Society's teaming up with a national group dedicated to saving the lives of animals. Tianna Fisher of t...
The Missouri House has passed legislation that would trim the state's income tax and raise the sales tax as part of an ec...
Gov. Mary Fallin and Republican legislative leaders have announced a plan to cut Oklahoma's top personal income tax rate ...
Last month, bullying got in the face of Carl Junction residents. Luke Nugent, an 8th grader, took his own life after apparent...
Plans for Joplin's redevelopment after the May 2011 tornado continue moving along. David Wallace with the city's mast...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law to block tax breaks for abortion providers and ban abortions perform...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon continues to campaign for expanding Medicaid coverage. At a rally at the State Capitol Tuesday, N...
Missouri lawmakers are looking to renew an economic development program that has provided about $120 million of tax credi...
An 8-month girl from Grove is now in a Tulsa hospital after an Amber Alert was issued for her Friday. The alert was issued fo...
The Social Security Administration says one of its fraud investigators received a readable list of Missourians who have conce...
Attorney General Chris Koster says he won't appeal a federal court ruling striking down a Missouri law that exempted mora...
The Missouri House speaker says lawmakers will take action if Governor Nixon fails to order the release of records in recent ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Carthage Wednesday to continue his push to expand Medicaid. Nixon wants to make another 30...
A group of abortion rights activists delivered about 1,600 signed petitions to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's office urging ...
A bill Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law last week was inspired by a Cherokee County case. The law, which takes e...
The Kansas Senate has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that blocks tax breaks for providers and outlaws abortions solel...
A Republican-led House committee has approved legislation that would expand Missouri's Medicaid program but not as greatl...
Legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in bonds to bolster the Kansas pension system for teachers and government workers ha...
The man accused of plotting to blow up churches in Miami isn't mentally fit to stand trial..at least not now. A judge in ...
Kansas Senators have sent a bill to Governor Sam Brownback that would require residents who receive welfare and unemployment ...
A Pittsburg couple is in custody after they were arrested on drug charges this morning. 41-year-old Arturo Archuleta and 44-y...
A State Senator from Joplin says the Missouri Senate will hold up a budget for the state Revenue Department until it gets ans...
For the first time in over four years, both the US House and Senate have each presented a federal budget. Missouri Congressma...
You've heard of baby showers. Saturday, the Joplin Humane Society is having a shower for puppies and kittens. Tianna Fish...
The Kansas Senate has given final approval to a $14 billion budget for the next fiscal year that starts July 1.Thursday&#...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to bill cutting sales and income taxes after rejecting a diversion of highway...
How big ofa problem is teen suicide? Debbie Fitzgerald of the Ozark Center in Joplin tells News Talk KZRG it's bigger tha...
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts Ju...
Kansas House members are preparing to debate a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ...
Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones was in Joplin this morning meeting with business leaders. One big topic was a bill passed in...
Joplin is getting its own Salvation Army emergency response vehicle. Callie Hudson with the Salvation Army tells News Talk KZ...
Republican Governor Sam Brownback's plan to cancel a scheduled decline in the state sales tax has survived a vote in the ...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature has repeatedly defeated a plan to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama'...
Missouri senators have passed legislation that would cut income taxes for residents and businesses but raise the state sales ...
An animal rights group held a protest outside a Joplin Walmart this morning. Mercy For Animals doesn't like the way pork ...
A Kansas House committee has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that prevents groups providing abortion services from bei...
The Missouri House has endorsed the creation of several new tax breaks intended to lure high-tech businesses and foreign trad...
It won't be long before kids with disabilities will be playing baseball at Will Norton Miracle Field at the Joplin Athlet...
Missouri House Republicans have given a resounding `no' to Democratic plans to expand Medicaid.Two separate House committ...
An Oklahoma Senate committee has approved a bill calling for an investigation into the state's care of people who are eli...
President Obama's suggestion to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour isn't supported by Missouri Senator Roy Blun...
A coalition of Oklahoma chambers of commerce this week released an eleven point plan to create more jobs in the state. One pa...
Republican leaders in the Kansas House say there's very little support in their chamber for Governor Sam Brownback's ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin this afternoon to push his plan to expand Medicaid by making another 300,000 Missou...
Governor Sam Brownback is meeting resistance to his tax plan because it promises to reduce individual income taxes in the fut...
Barton County has gotten a "poor" rating from Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich. He says there were inadequate an...
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it received a record number of initial gun license applications last month.OS...
A Facebook page has been set up to remember Monica Webb, the Joplin woman who was killed by her estranged husband last Novemb...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was a guest on the KZRG Morning News Watch this morning, talking about proposals made in his Stat...
Researchers for the Kansas Legislature are projecting that Governor Sam Brownback's plan for more income tax cuts would c...
Missouri first-graders would have to take a gun safety course under a bill being considered by a state Senate committee.Sen. ...
Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan is telling legislators that Kansas must further reduce individual income tax rates to re...
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is vowing to back a ballot initiative to restore limits on campaign contribution if lawmakers refuse ...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is calling on lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income adults and authorize hundreds ...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing to eliminate an income tax deduction for the property taxes paid by home owners.Le...
Kansas officials are gauging public opinion about opportunities for bicycling and walking around the state.The Kansas Departm...
Governor Sam Brownback has urged abortion opponents outside the Kansas Statehouse to ``keep marching'' and ``keep mov...
A Missouri House bill aims to restrict the use of cash welfare benefits at casinos and liquor stores. The bill's sponsor,...
A Kansas Senate leader is preparing legislation to require drug testing for people who receive cash assistance from the state...
About 200Barton County Electric Co-op customers in Barton County and northern Jasper County lost power late this afternoon af...
The 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature began today with a protest. About 100 people protested outside theStatehouseagains...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing a $10 million initiative to boost mental health services to targeted populatio...
The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office is urging a Delaware County judge to dismiss the latest appeal of a man sentenced ...
Racism. That's how Atlanta-based Urban Metropolitan Development explains the criminal charges against them for work done ...
A national survey ranks Kansas at the bottom among states in being prepared for public health emergencies, terrorism incident...
A Galena man has been sentenced to just over three and a half years in federal prison for possesison of child porn and traffi...
Authorities say at least 26 people, including 18 children, were killed Friday when a gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut ...
A 17-year-old being charged with first degree murder for a Joplin man's death is being challenged. Attorneys for Daniel H...
The company that manages a southwest Missouri apartment building where five people died in a Thanksgiving Day fire had disabl...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says federal officials have granted the state permission to overhaul its Medicaid program.The d...
The Oklahoma Insurance Department has spent more than $180,000 on high-tech shotguns, bulletproof vests and seven police-...
Missouri House Republicans plan to sponsor campaign finance legislation designed to make it easier to track political spendin...
Governor Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both ``the smart thing'' and ``the right thing ...
The Joplin Humane Society is getting into the holiday spirit. Tianna Fisher with the Humane Society tells News Talk KZRG thei...
The Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri has donated $20,000 toward construction of a baseball field and playground...
A Joplin home for developmentally-disabled adults will start their physical rebuilding process tomorrow with a groundbreaking...
More Missourians die by suicide than by DWI or homicide. A statewide coalition of universities is now making a suicide preven...
A 29-year-old former Carl Junction police officer is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing ch...
A southwest Missouri man admits that he collected thousands of photos and videos of child pornography in the last 10 to 15 ye...
Northeast Oklahoma's new Congressman is a Republican. Markwayne Mullin defeated Democrat Rob Wallace in Tuesday's ele...
Missouri voters have rejected a measure that would have sharply increased the state's lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax.Tu...
Mercy Joplin held an open house and ribbon cutting for their newly-reopened Orthopedic Clinic Wednesday afternoon. Mercy Spok...
A local animal boarding business is holding an open house this weekend for their new animal rescue division. Mary Ann Schlau,...
The Joplin Humane Society is holding its first ever Pit Bull Awareness Day on Saturday. Lysa Buehler of the Humane Society te...
An eighth person has pleaded guilty in a Medicaid fraud scheme involving home health care billings in southeast Kansas.Thirty...
Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill received almost $40 million of federal subsidies...
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder's lawsuit challenging the federal heal...
A faith-based group dedicated to helping abused and sexually exploited women is holding their first 5K next week. Leandria Ni...
The Joplin Humane Society's holding an "offsite" adoption event today. Outreach Coordinator Tianna Fisher tells...
If you've got any unused prescription medicines in your home, you can get rid of them safely on Saturday. Cherokee County...
A Joplin center that treats traumatized children has received a federal grant that will help it expand. Governor Jay Nixon an...
Two people are in custody after a traffic stop in Galena. Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves tells News Talk KZRG what went...
Experts say Oklahoma is leading the nation in prescription drug abuse and that the problem will continue to get worse unless ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has amended a federal lawsuit that challenges the nation's health care overhaul la...
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin is gaining support from some women who think he's getting a bad deal. About 300 peo...
The Joplin City Council is going to start work this week on its 2013 budget. Work sessions are scheduled Wednesday through Fr...
Three women have accused a Joplin man of sexually assaulting them. 21-year-old Jacob Blackburn will go on trial for two count...
Missouri lawmakers have overridden Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill expanding religious exceptions for insurance cover...
Governor Jay Nixon says tax credit reform will be a priority issue when the Missouri Legislature convenes next year. Nixon sp...
Joplin's City Manager wants to boost the pension fund for public safety employees by $1-million.Mark Rohrtells News T...
A Joplin lawmaker is amonga newlegislative committeestudying child abuse and neglect in Missouri. State Representative BillLa...
Four Joplin-area drug stores are being closed by Walgreens. A spokesman tells News Talk KZRG in an email that the Vista Pharm...
A Cole County judge has revised the wording that Missouri voters will see in November on a health care ballot measure. Judge ...
The Mayor of Sheldon was arrested Friday. Vernon County Sheriff Ron Peckman tells News Talk KZRG what Robert Sewell is accuse...
The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to set execution dates for six condemned killers, saying doing so is "premature&...
Five people are in custody after law enforcement searched a Galena home Friday and found signs of a meth lab. Cherokee County...
A former Joplin public defender is now suing the city. Tom Mann says his reputation was damaged and business suffered after t...
A Pittsburg clinic is getting a much needed shot of growth hormone. The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas has begun...
The mother of an 18-month-old girl who was severely abused has now been charged in the child's assault. 22-year-old Gina ...
Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder is forging ahead with his lawsuit against President Obama's federal health care...
Hundreds, if not thousands, turned out to the two Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Joplin to show their support for the businesses....
Missouri Senator Roy Blunt was in Joplin this afternoon to meet with civic and business leaders to hear their concerns. One t...
The intense heat the Four States has been dealing with means your AC is running more, which means higher power bills. Julie M...
Missouri Southern State University has unveiled a master plan for changing the campus over the next 25 years. University Pres...
An adoption case that's gone on for five years has a happy ending for a Carthage couple. In 2007, Seth and Melinda Moser ...
She pleads guilty to money laundering and conspiring to deal more than a million and a half dollars worth of prescription dru...
Drought usually leads to fewer crops, which usually leads to higher food prices. Ed Browning of the Jasper County Extension O...
Joplin Police have a man in custody in connection with a shooting Sunday afternoon. Police tell News Talk KZRG they were call...
Joplin Police are currently seeking a missing child. Jack Woolever, age 10, has been missing from the 800 block of South Serg...
Missouri Governor Nixon has vetoed legislation that would have allowed employers to decline to provide coverage for abortion,...
Executions will continue in Oklahoma. Attorney General Scott Pruitt tells News Talk KZRG the Sooner state has secured 20 new ...
Jasper County Sheriff Archie Dunn says he's getting special treatment..but not in a good way. Dunn tells News Talk KZRG t...
Webb City officials are trying to get part of the town placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Parts of Webb City...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill continues to stick up for President Obama's health care law. During an appearance in Jo...
The company that owns May's Drug and Drug Warehouse is being purchased by Walgreen's. USA Drug, which has 144 stores ...
A mosque in Joplin was saved from destruction after a passerby noticed it was on fire early Wednesday morning. The Jasper Cou...
One of the talking points in this election year is that the US Senate hasn't passed a budget in over three years, yet Mis...
Two people are facing drug charges after they were arrested Tuesday afternoon in Pittsburg. The Southeast Kansas Drug Enforce...
Two men from Carl Junction are in custody after meth was found during a search at their home. The Jasper County Drug Task For...
This is the time for small businesses in Missouri to create jobs and grow. That was Governor Jay Nixon's message Wednesda...
Missouri Congressman Todd Akin says Monday's US Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law is "a mixed ba...
Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law gives Kansas legislators a g...
Police say she was passing around funny money in Grove. 42-year-old Marilee Henderson of Noel is in custody in the McDonald C...
Missouri's public colleges and universities will be taking a state budget cut for the third straight year. Governor Jay N...
A dental college in Kansas? That's the suggestion from a task force appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The task fo...
Joplin police are investigating a possible child abuse case that has an 18-month-old child hospitalized. Corporal Chuck Niess...
A pastor from Duenweg has been sentenced to three years and ten months in federal prison for having child pornography. 53-yea...
Joplin Police have arrested a suspect for Monday's robbery of the UMB Bank at 21st and Maiden Lane. 35-year-old Wesley Os...
A Missouri sheriff says his department responded to its first "domestic texting'' call after two people carried ...
There's going to be something unusual this morning at 7th and Main in Joplin. An animal rights group called Mercy For Ani...
The Kansas attorney general's office paid outside lawyers more than $644,000 to defend anti-abortion laws enacted las...
Kansas officials will hold two public hearings this month on the governor's plan to overhaul the state's $2.9 bil...
A rally at the Missouri Capitol has drawn about 200 people opposing a federal mandate requiring employers to provide health i...
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich is beginning a review of the state Senate. The last audit of the Legislature was completed in 2...
An incorrect name on a press release has upset a Joplin family. Lisa Dentis tells News Talk KZRG a press release sent out by ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt says he's appealing a judge's ruling that struck down a state law restricting ...
A press release issued by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office about the child sex predator program's compliance check ...
Three people were arrested in a prostitution sting set up by the Joplin Police Department late last week. Arrested Thursday w...
Women who have been abused, sexually assaulted or involved in prostitution are invited to attend a support group meeting toni...
Governor Mary Fallin says her plan to cut and eventually eliminate Oklahoma's personal income tax was doomed by intense l...
Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal is retiring from office.The Hutchinson Republican announced his retirement Friday as leg...
Governor Mary Fallin has signed into law a $6.8 billion budget bill to fund Oklahoma state government for the fiscal year...
Joplin residents on public assistance or low incomes can get their dogs and cats spayed, neutered and vaccinated for low cost...
A contractor who was hired to demolish three tornado-damaged schools in Joplin is now accusing the school district of racial ...
Joplin Police are investigating the death of a three month old child. They were called to the Northpark Apartments on Newman ...
The anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug for executions in Missouri. That...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is acknowledging a deal to cut the state's income tax won't be reached before lawmakers...
A former employee of a YMCA camp in Lawrence County has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children. 29-year-old Matthe...
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin yesterday signed legislation that bans registered sex offenders from living with minor children...
Governor Mary Fallin and leaders of the Oklahoma Legislature are nearing an agreement on a $6.6 billion for state spendin...
A Carl Junction man has admitted to authorities that not only does he download child pornography, but he's also been sexu...
The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas will receive 4-point-7 million dollars from the Department of Health and Huma...
