Politics

Missouri’s revenues rose more than expected during the month of May.

The state collected about $6.6 billion in revenue last month, compared to just under $6.4 billion in May of 2011.  Governor Jay Nixon’s Budget Director, Linda Luebbering, credits most of the improvement to higher collections of state income and sales taxes.

“That's the good news, things are picking up,"  Luebbering said.  "I think we do have to be cautious, still, because of what’s going on at the national and particularly the international picture, with European Union issues and everything that's going on globally that could have some bearing on the overall economy.”

U.S. Senate candidate John Brunner has launched the first critical TV ad in Missouri's Republican Senate primary.

Missouri's tax revenues are running a little ahead of projections heading into the final month of the state budget year.

The longest-serving member of the Missouri Supreme Court has announced his resignation. effective Aug. 1.

Proposed changes to a stormwater ordinance in Columbia are not happening, after years of discussion.  

Clay Waller was arraigned in court Monday on charges of killing his wife, Jacque Waller. 

An annual report released Friday by the attorney general found black drivers were 72 percent more likely than white motorists to be pulled over in 2011. Black drivers were stopped 2.5 times more often than Hispanic drivers.

The report compares racial characteristics of Missouri's driving-age population to the racial composition of drivers in the roughly 1.7 million traffic stops, 129,000 searches and 81,000 arrests.