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Missouri’s state budget for next year has been signed into law, but Governor Jay Nixon also carved $15 million out of the spending plan that takes effect July 1. 

Governor Jay Nixon (D) has signed Missouri’s $24 billion budget into law, but he also sliced $15 million from next year’s spending plan.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• A one-year-old Columbia tech company is headed to Silicon Valley for a prestigious training program
• A clinic in California, MO gets a grant as part of the federal Affordable Care Act
• Governor Nixon vetoes a bill he considers unconstitutional

Missouri cellphone users can now register their numbers on the state’s no-call list under a bill signed by Governor Jay Nixon Thursday.

The law prohibits telemarketers from calling or texting those who sign up and gives the attorney general’s office the power to punish violators.  

Attorney General Chris Koster says the law expands Missouri’s no-call list enacted 12 years ago for land lines.   

“12 years ago the no-call list saved the dinner hour in this state," Koster said. "Today’s action extends that protection to a new technological era.”

Governor Jay Nixon signed a bill into law today that calls for more uniformity among higher education institutions in Missouri.