Tagged: missouri

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• A Cole County judge rules Missouri science investment bill unconstitutional
• A potentially threatening letter is sent to some state lawmakers
• Plans for a new football tailgate zone in Columbia have some business crying foul

Sparked by past events around the nation, one Missouri senator is trying to make disrupting a house of worship punishable by up to 15 days in jail and a three hundred dollar fine for first time offenders.

The Missouri House has given first-round approval to legislation that would require driver’s license exams be given only in English.

University of Missouri curators have voted to increase tuition by 3 percent for Missouri residents starting this summer. Out of state students will see a tuition increase of 7.5 percent.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• The UM Curators approve tuition increases.
• Missouri legislators push law making English the only language on driver's license tests.
• A law in the general assembly punishing unruly behavior at religious centers.

Visitors were quarantined briefly after two of the Kansas City Zoo's five gorillas got out of their habitat and roamed into a non-public feeding area.

New research shows that differences in the brain development of autistic children are already visible in infants as young as six months old.