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2006 Crime Stories

• 10/23/2006: Radio Story - Governor Blunt unveils an addition Sex Offender Registry
• 10/23/2006: Newspaper Story - The governor unveiled an enhanced sex-offender registry that includes more physical descriptions and information on offenders in the state.
• 10/ 2/2006: Radio Story - The Colorado and Pennsylvania school shootings haven't led to security changes in Missouri schools. Fanna Haile-Selassie has more from the Capitol.
• 8/23/2006: Radio Story - Mental Health Commission releases 23 recommendations
• 5/11/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate and the House passed tougher sex offender legislation.
• 5/ 3/2006: Radio Story - Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill discovered the Department of Corrections, Probation and Parole are doing an inadequate job of supervising criminals.
• 5/ 3/2006: Newspaper Story - McCaskill points to lax standards of the Dept. of Corrections
• 4/25/2006: Radio Story - A bill won first round approval in the Senate Monday to penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants.
• 4/24/2006: Radio Story - Republican Senator Bill Alter is sponsoring a bill that would, among other things, train the Highway Patrol to enforce immigration laws.
• 4/18/2006: Newspaper Story - Missouri's House Budget Committee drops a proposal to use college loan sale profits to help finance a prison.
• 4/17/2006: Radio Story - The Kansas City Star reported the FBI is investigating political appointments made by the Governor.
• 4/13/2006: Radio Story - Attorney General Jay Nixon received an injunction Thursday that resolves lawsuit he filed against the mobile home company in 2004
• 4/ 6/2006: Newspaper Story - Proponents of the bill would protect people who use deadly force in self-defense from prosecution.
• 4/ 5/2006: Radio Story - The House gave first round approval to a bill that would give immunity to those who shoot a home invader.
• 4/ 4/2006: Radio Story - In a 132-23 vote Thursday, the Missouri House decided to send a bill to the Senate that allows Missourians to use force to protect themselves in the event of an intrusion on private property.
• 3/30/2006: Newspaper Story - National and local prosecuting attorneys say that broad minimum sentences can result in more offenders on the streets
• 3/ 7/2006: Newspaper Story - A bill that combines several sex offender laws passed through the Senate on Tuesday and will now proceed to the House.
• 3/ 7/2006: Radio Story - Senators in Missouri's General Assembly debated a long list of sex offense bills, including one to update and refine the Sex Offender Registry.
• 2/28/2006: Radio Story - Lawmakers want to change current language in state law, so every Missourian exonorated for crimes they did not commit are eligable for compensation.
• 2/28/2006: Radio Story - The bill also protects the person against lawsuits that could be brought by the criminal if they are harmed.
• 2/23/2006: Newspaper Story - Senate President Pro Tem Mike Gibbons, R-St. Louis County has sponsored a bill to compensate former inmates exonerated by DNA evidence.
• 2/22/2006: Radio Story - A proposed state law would make stealing your landline and cell phone records a crime.
• 2/21/2006: Newspaper Story - Sens. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, and Jason Crowell, R-Cape Girardeau, have filed similar bills that would protect reporters from having to disclose their sources in court.
• 2/ 6/2006: Radio Story - A Missouri lawmaker wants to make spyware illegal.
• 1/30/2006: Radio Story - Senator Matt Bartle calls for a rare round-table in hope to coordinate the legislature's efforts in protecting against and prosecuting sexual offenders.
• 1/25/2006: Radio Story - In his State of the Judiciary speech, Chief Justice Michael Wolff asked lawmakers to increase salaries for state judges.
• 1/24/2006: Newspaper Story - A leading conservative in Missouri's legislature warns lawmakers about going too far in throwing the book at sex offenders.
• 1/23/2006: Radio Story - The Children's Services Comission listened to child welfare agencies and researchers who all agreed meth has a devastating effect on a child's life.