Jay Nixon

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Demetrius White recently lost his job as a $10-an-hour forklift driver loading pallets of shampoo, he applied for unemployment…

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the Black culture center at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in 2010 in a…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eighteen Black women who were told decades ago that their babies had died soon after birth at a St. Louis hospital…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s lieutenant governor is accusing Justice Department officials of “fanning the flames of racial division,” as the federal agency is…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government’s withering report on the Ferguson Police Department issued a stern mandate to city leaders: Reform your law-enforcement practices…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state senator who sponsored Missouri’s new public safety director when he was appointed amid the fallout from the Ferguson…

*(Via Yahoo News) – Nearly a week after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency ahead of a decision in the contentious Ferguson police shooting, reports surfaced Saturday that an announcement may not be imminent. Local media, quoting unidentified sources, reported that the panel won’t rule before the end of the weekend. According […]

WELDON SPRING, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that law enforcement officials have been working around the clock to make sure residents…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Wednesday appointed a new state public safety director, giving his administration its only Black Cabinet member…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Cornealious Anderson was sentenced to 13 years behind bars and told to…