[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Eric Greitens’ ex-wife is accusing the former Missouri Governor — who is now a leading Republican candidate for the US Senate — of being physically violent toward their two young children, ages 7 and 5. In an affidavit filed Monday in an ongoing child custody dispute, Sheena Greitens, a professor at […]
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Missouri governor rebuffed: Journalist won’t be prosecuted for viewing HTML
Enlarge / Gov. Mike Parson at a press conference on May 29, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) A Cole County prosecutor has rebuffed Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s request to file criminal charges against a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who identified a major security flaw in a government website […]
Teacher Who Had Sex With Student Gets Charges Dropped — By MARRYING Him!
A former teacher at a small-town high school in Missouri appears to be off the hook, at least legally speaking, after MARRYING the former student she was accused of having sex with while on the job! Back in February 2019, Baylee A. Turner , who was 23 years old at the time, was arrested and […]
Missouri tells health depts to “stop enforcing and publicizing” COVID measures
Enlarge / Eric Schmitt, Missouri Attorney General. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise sharply in Missouri, local health departments are abandoning efforts to stop the spread of the pandemic disease, saying their hands have been tied by the state’s attorney general and a recent court ruling. One local agency, the […]
Emails show what happened before Missouri gov. falsely called journalist a “hacker”
Enlarge / Missouri Gov. Mike Parson speaks during a press conference on May 29, 2019 in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) Missouri state government officials planned to publicly thank a journalist who discovered a security flaw until a drastic change in strategy resulted in the governor labeling the journalist a […]
Show Me State governor hid data showing that masks work
Enlarge / Gov. Mike Parson at a press conference on May 29, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) As the delta wave rose in Missouri last summer, much of the state remained unmasked. Four jurisdictions, though, restored their mask mandates, creating a natural experiment that was studied by the […]
Viewing website HTML code is not illegal or “hacking, ” prof. tells Missouri gov.
Enlarge / Cybersecurity professor Shaji Khan of University of Missouri–St. Louis. (credit: University of Missouri–St. Louis ) The cybersecurity professor who helped uncover the Missouri government’s failure to protect teachers’ Social Security numbers has demanded that the state cease its investigation into him and stop making “baseless accusations” that he committed a crime. As we […]
Missouri gov. calls journalist who found security flaw a “hacker,” threatens to sue
Enlarge / Gov. Mike Parson at a press conference on May 29, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson today threatened to prosecute and seek civil damages from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist who identified a security flaw that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers […]
Missouri AG wages war on masks as state blazes with delta cases
Enlarge / Eric Schmitt, Missouri Attorney General. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Missouri has been one of the hardest-hit states so far in these early days of a delta-fueled COVID-19 surge. Cases increased nearly 500 percent since the start of July, while vaccinations stalled. Right now, with just 41 percent of the state fully vaccinated, 112 of […]
Hospital CEO tells vaccine disparagers to “shut up” as delta slams Missouri
Enlarge / The COVID-19 testing site at the Walmart Supercenter in Joplin, Missouri, on July 2, 2020. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) As the delta variant spreads rapidly in Missouri and cases of COVID-19 surge, some hospitals in the state are already strained. And projections suggest things will only get worse in the coming […]