JEFFERSON CITY — My colleague Kim McGuire has posted on her blog more news of a staff shakeup at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that might be related to the E. coli controversy at Lake of the Ozarks.

The news was…

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 — 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…

UPDATE: Sen. Brad Lager, R-Savannah, said Nixon’s announcement today will not slow his committee’s investigation: “There’s a whole bunch of questions that still need to be answered,” he said. Check the Mother Ship tomorrow for a complete story.

JEFFERSON CITY…

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…

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…

UPDATE: DNR spokesman Travis Ford said the department has received the Senate committee’s letter seeking 134 specific e-mails and that he expects a resolution to the conflict over the e-mails by the end of today. The letter from the Senate committee…

Sen. Kurt Schaefer

JEFFERSON CITY — Department of Natural Resources Director Mark Templeton might not be the only appointee of Gov. Jay Nixon to be worried about his job over damaging revelations that elevated E. coli levels in Lake of the Ozarks were…

JEFFERSON CITY — At a stop in Kansas City today, Gov. Jay Nixon was peppered with questions from reporters about what his office knew about the E. coli report at Lake of the Ozarks and when they knew it. (The subject…

JEFFERSON CITY — Contradicting previous accounts coming from the governor’s office, the Kansas City Star and Springfield News-Leader are reporting that Gov. Jay Nixon’s office knew of elevated levels of E. coli bacteria in the Lake of the Ozarks as early as May…