The state of Missouri hasn’t made a decision about whether it should prohibit medical marijuana users from certain state jobs.
Missouri voters OK’d medical marijuana, but no decision on whether poor can use without losing benefits https://t.co/hxFX06I7JU pic.twitter.com/LbdO9NUC8M
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) November 29, 2018
Under the TANF program, which provides cash benefits to an average of about 25,000 recipients each month, the state requires officials to ask applicants about illegal drug use.
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Recipients may be then required to take a drug test. If they do not show up for the appointment or do not complete the drug test, they will not receive benefits for themselves for three years.
A new way to traffic drugs?
Woman looked pregnant, actually carried 4 pounds of heroin at KC bus station: charges https://t.co/5d9A8WXFPW
— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) November 29, 2018
Officers discovered the bundles she was carrying in front of her abdomen, along with some pillow stuffing, according to the allegations.
Murillo told the officers that she had agreed to carry the bundles from Denver to New York for a man named “Freddy” she had met in Mexico. Freddy had packed the drugs to make it look like she was pregnant, she said.
Sporting Kansas City won the MLS championship in 2013. Will it do it again this year?
.@SportingKC is just one game away from the MLS Cup https://t.co/URvxviBO4X #claimthecup #forgloryforcity pic.twitter.com/nMlK1n9IUt
— KCUR (@kcur) November 29, 2018
The conference finals are a two-game series, and the team that scores the most points over those two moves on to the MLS Cup. Neither Sporting nor the Timbers scored in Sunday’s game. The winner of match will take on either the New York Red Bulls or Atlanta United; that game is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Its amped-up practices during the summer proved to be the key to Sporting’s run through the MLS playoffs, which continues against the Portland Timbers at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Children’s Mercy Park.
Brief is a roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.