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- A customer makes a sports bet at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City N.J. on March 17, 2022 just before the March Madness NCAA college basketball tournament began. As March Madness gets underway, more people than ever now can legally bet on sports. A total of 38 states and the District of Columbia now allow some form of sports betting. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)
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It's March Madness and more people than ever can legally bet on basketball games
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Sat,03/16/24-11:23PM , 747 Reads
People in North Carolina may have a little more riding on this year's NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, as they will be able to legally bet on the games through their smartphone apps
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- Missouri state Sen. Bill Eigel, a Republican member of the state Freedom Caucus, waives a paper containing criticisms of the Freedom Caucus that had been prepared by Republican Senate leaders for a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Republican leaders had left the paper on a lectern which the Freedom Caucus then used for its own press conference. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)
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Some Republican leaders are pushing back against the conservative Freedom Caucus in statehouses
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,01/30/24-11:26PM , 530 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — On the first day of Missouri's new legislative session, Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden tried to cajole colleagues into congeniality with a rhetorical question: “Will we focus on principled progress or political pandemonium?”
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- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a news conference on the Minnesota economic and budget forecast in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Almost every U.S. state has cut taxes in some way in the past three years. But that trend may be slowing as many states head into their 2024 legislative sessions with lagging tax revenues. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, FILE)
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State tax cutting trend faces headwinds from declining revenues and tighter budgets
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Tue,01/02/24-11:08PM , 462 Reads
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Income, sales, property and gas taxes: Almost every U.S.
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- Pastor Kenny Batson stands near a sign displaying the worship service times of Grace Fellowship Church on Nov. 16, 2023, in El Dorado Springs, Mo. Batson was convicted of a series of crimes in the 1990s but became a Christian pastor after being released from prison. He was pardoned by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson. (AP Photo/David A.Lieb)
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Missouri governor granting pardons at pace not seen since WWII era
By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press
Thu,11/23/23-11:00PM , 593 Reads
Distraught by a romantic breakup, 16-year-old Kenny Batson vented his hurt by stomping out the windshields of cars on a for-sale lot. He landed in juvenile detention, but that was only the beginning of his trouble.
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