(Reporting with Joe Mahr.)

The governor has called a DWI summit

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has summoned police, judges, prosecutors and anti-DWI advocates to Jefferson City on Wednesday to discuss ways to better enforce the state’s drunken driving laws.

Nixon spokesman Scott Holste said…

JEFFERSON CITY — An employee of the Department of Natural Resources who was responsible for closing public beaches in Missouri when bacteria tests were high has been fired for his role in the E. coli controversy at Lake of the…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Democratic Party is questioning whether Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder inappropriately used state resources for a video Kinder posted on his campaign website.

In the video, posted on the Political Fix yesterday, Kinder criticizes Gov. Jay Nixon for…

JEFFERSON CITY — Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder suggests in a YouTube video he’s sent to supporters that if the national health care proposal being debated by Congress is approved, it would lead to closing prisons and…

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon said on Friday that if the weather were warmer, he would take a swim in the Lake of the Ozarks, since the public beach was once again re-opened.

Oops. The governor…

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is cutting jobs in the state parks division today as a result of continued economic problems, according to a memo obtained by the Post-Dispatch.

The memo from deputy DNR director Bill Bryan says…

Templeton

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon is extending the suspension without pay of his director of Department of Natural Resources until the deputy director of the department completes his investigation into E. coli tests at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Two weeks…

Biden

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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden will be in St. Louis on Thursday to promote the success of the economic stimulus package and to help Secretary of State Robin Carnahan raise money for her Senate campaign.

The vice president will appear with Gov. Jay Nixon at…

JEFFERSON CITY — There will be no Halloween celebration at the Governor’s Mansion this year, ending several years of capital city tradition, but fear not young trick-or-treaters. You can still dress up and get a tour of the mansion, and…

JEFFERSON CITY — The suspended director of Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources told Senate investigators last week that he wasn’t concerned about delayed reporting of E. coli levels in the Lake of the Ozarks because the bacteria die off in…