KBIA Newscast

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Presidential hopeful Ron Paul will make a visit to MU.
• A Nuclear Regulatory Commission public meeting was sparsely attended in Fulton.
• MU Law School moves up in rankings.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• MU's law school rises in U.S. News and World Report's latest rankings.
• The Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a pair of hearings on the Callaway plant's renewal.
• Lawsuits could force the EPA to set limits on "dead zone" pollution.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including: 

• MU’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute will cease to exist. The nuclear engineering department has been split in two, with the transition expected to be finalized by July 1. KBIA’s Nick Gass gauged the reaction among student and faculty researchers.

• Three Missouri communities will share more than $62,000 in federal grants for historic preservation projects.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Governor Nixon asking for funding for the blind.
• MU dissolves Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute.
• FEMA turns down Missouri's request for disaster aid.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Gov. Nixon's request for FEMA aid denied.
• Schweich blasts state and local governments for not adhering to Sunshine Laws.
• A MU backup quarterback is arrested in Columbia.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Some Joplin residents are filing complaints about changes in mail delivery.
• The University of Missouri wants the school to speed up its move to a smoke-free campus.
• The St. Louis Zoo Association plans to purchase the site of the former Forest Park Hospital.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

• Rick Santorum, victorious in Kansas, makes a stop in Missouri.
• MU researchers develop new form of electric car battery.
• Scientists worry about corn protection after learning a pesticide is failing to fend off the corn rootworm.

This is regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• A look back as state legislators take their spring break
• Governor Nixon sends off a troop from the Missouri National Guard
• Branson city officials assess the damage after February's tornado
• Columbia officials revise their Enhanced Enterprise Zone plans
• Columbia residents to vote on funding for Columbia Public Schools
  

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• House budget would cut services to the blind, restore higher education dollars
• City takes aim at energy efficiency in rental units
• Opponents of blight designation voice concerns

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• A Missouri Senate bill supports a change to adoptions in the state's foster care process.
• Missouri's state auditor weighs a senatorial run.
• The state Senate endorses legislation that would restrict public contracts with Iran.
• Women earn only 74 cents to the dollar compared to men in Missouri.
• Missouri lawmakers send Gov. Jay Nixon a workers' compensation bill.