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Local News Waynesville man sentenced in auto scam case A Waynesville man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a scam at a Jefferson City auto dealership in October 2020. Jun. 29 2021 @ 11:05pm Larry Stewart A Waynesville man has been sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a scam at a Jefferson City auto dealership in October 2020. Larry Stewart, 41, pleaded guilty during a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem to felony charges of passing a...

Local News Prison time ordered in Best Buy burglary case One of four men from Texas charged in connection with an August 2019 burglary at Best Buy in Jefferson City, has been sentenced to prison. by News Tribune Jun. 29 2021 @ 11:05pm One of four men from Texas charged in connection with an August 2019 burglary at Best Buy in Jefferson City, has been sentenced to prison. Micah Lazaro, 30, pleaded guilty during a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem to felony charges of second-d...

Springfield News-Leader An attorney representing three women suing the state to receive Medicaid benefits, Chuck Hatfield, wrote on Twitter Friday that the Missouri Supreme Court had scheduled arguments for the case on July 13 at 11 a.m. The hearing will come weeks after a circuit court judge ruled that the state was not required to expand Medicaid under a voter-approved constitutional amendment enacted last year. Hatfield and Lowell Pearson, another attorney representing the women, said afte...

Missouri records highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in US US health experts warn that the Delta variant of the coronavirus is driving up new infections and deaths nationwide, particularly in states with below-average vaccination rates. The increased COVID-19 rate is attributed to the Delta variant initially discovered in India, also known by the alpha-numerical designation B.1.617.2. President Joe Biden’s original target of 70 percent vaccination of US adults by July 4 will not be met, a...

Judge blocks Medicaid expansion in Missouri CNN 4 hrs ago By Tami Luhby, CNN © Jeff Roberson/AP FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021 file photo, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address in Jefferson City, Mo. Gov. Parson is calling lawmakers back for a special session to work out a deal on a critical piece of Medicaid funding. Parson announced Tuesday, June 22, 2021 that he is calling a special session beginning noon Wednesday so lawmakers can pass a tax on...

ADVERTISEMENT Today: A CDC advisory panel met to examine heart inflammation and the vaccines, a judge gave a setback to Missouri Medicaid expansion, and Biogen opened the door to adjusting the price of its controversial Alzheimer’s drug.  Let’s start with the CDC: CDC panel finds likely link between rare mild heart inflammation in adolescents and COVID-19 vaccine A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) safety panel said there is a "likely association" of mild heart inflammation ...

Courts have no power to force spending on voter-approved health coverage, filing states

“Because the General Assembly did not do so,” Sauer wrote, “defendants lack authority to implement Medicaid expansion and they lack appropriations authority to disburse taxpayer funds for that purpose.” Sauer also wrote that the availability of “additional federal funds to offset some of the costs of Medicaid expansion … does not make up for the lack of appropriations authority under state law to expend any funds, whether state or federal, for the purpose of implementing Medicaid e...

Not only are lawmakers not obligated to fund Medicaid expansion under Amendment 2, but doing so would violate the Missouri Constitution, state attorneys argued in their response to a lawsuit challenging the Legislature’s decision not to fund expansion.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office responded to a May 20 lawsuit seeking for Medicaid rolls to be opened to 275,000 working-age adults, following a voter-approved constitutional amendment. Missouri lawmakers were not obligated to fund Medicaid expansion, and the courts cannot force the state to pay the medical bills of people who would be eligible under an initiative that amended the state constitution, the state attorney general’s office argued i...