Tagged: missouri supreme court

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Bid protest halts construction at Birds Point Levee
• Truman State to consider adding sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
• The Missouri Supreme Court says two candidates for state Legislature can be on this year's ballot.
• Missouri Gaming Commission has a new chairman

Missouri’s Appellate Judicial Commission is accepting applications for a new judge to sit on the seven-member Missouri Supreme Court.

As the Missouri Supreme Court decides whether to set execution dates for six condemned killers, attorneys for death row inmates are citing concerns over the state's new one-drug lethal injection method as among the reasons why the executions should not proceed.

The longest-serving member of the Missouri Supreme Court has announced his resignation. effective Aug. 1.

The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down part of a state harassment law enacted after the suicide of a St. Charles County teenager who was teased over the Internet.

The high court on Tuesday invalidated a 2008 state law defining harassment to cover anyone who "knowingly makes repeated unwanted communication to another person."

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including :

• State Supreme Court urged to set dates for 19 death sentences
• End of session will lack drama, but not fireworks
• Columbia business owner sentenced for Iraq donations