EDGERTON- A teenager was injured in an accident just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday in Platte County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Kia Rio driven by Joshua A. Davis, 18, Liberty, was westbound on Buena Vista Road just south of Edgerton.
The driver lost control on the gravel road. The vehicle went off the south side of the road and overturned.
Davis was transported to Heartland Regional Medical Center.
The MSHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.
JEFFERSON CITY- Gov. Jay Nixon announced today his appointment of Nia Ray as the new Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue effective December 1. Ray, Jefferson City, currently serves as Director of the Division of Employment Security. This appointment will be subject to confirmation by the Missouri Senate.
“Nia’s executive leadership experience and many years in the public sector will serve her and the people of Missouri well in this new role,” Gov. Nixon said. “I appreciate Nia again stepping forward to lead an agency that Missouri families, businesses and communities rely on to operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.”
Ray previously served as assistant legal counsel in the office of the governor and the Office of Administration before entering private legal practice in 2005. In 2009, Ray was appointed as executive director of Missouri’s Workforce Investment Board within the Department of Economic Development. In 2012, Ray was named director of Missouri Economic Research and Information Center. Last year, Governor Nixon named Ray Director of the Division of Employment Security within the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and was confirmed by the Missouri Senate. Ray graduated Cum Laude from Spelman College in Atlanta, and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois.
Acting director John Mollenkamp will resume his previous role as deputy director. Mollenkamp was named acting director while a search for a permanent director was underway. Mollenkamp, a native of Rolla, has served as Deputy Director of Revenue since 2011.
“I want to thank John for helping to lead this department over the past 18 months, and for his continued service on behalf of the people of Missouri,” Gov. Nixon said.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group leading efforts to protest the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown is asking for advance notice before Missouri prosecutors announce whether the officer will be charged, saying it will help avoid widespread violence.
Members of the Don’t Shoot Coalition said Wednesday they’re preparing for when a grand jury decides whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. A decision could come later this month.
Wilson fatally shot Brown, who was unarmed, in the St. Louis suburb Aug. 9. The shooting has sparked ongoing protests, including some that turned violent.
Hundreds of protesters have been arrested.
Activists have criticized law enforcement’s use of tear gas and armored vehicles during protests. They asked Wednesday that such tactics not be used, saying they want to “de-escalate violence without de-escalating action.”
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The quest for a drug to treat Ebola is speeding up. Federal officials have settled on a plan to test multiple experimental drugs at once, in an umbrella study using a single comparison group. They say this will give more Ebola patients a chance to try a treatment and provide quicker answers on which ones work.
Federal Food and Drug Administration officials described the plan Wednesday at a conference of several thousand tropical disease experts in New Orleans.
There is no treatment for Ebola, but several experimental ones have been tried on a few patients, and scientists are eyeing some others that were developed for different conditions and also might fight Ebola.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Republicans stuck together enough around their opposition to Democratic President Barack Obama to rescue U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and Gov. Sam Brownback in tough re-election races.
They also engineered another midterm sweep of all statewide and congressional races.
Democrats remained stunned Wednesday over how a fall campaign season that began with so much hope ended so badly.
Roberts, Brownback, conservative Secretary of State Kris Kobach and the entire U.S. House delegation will stay in office. Republicans even padded their supermajorities in the Legislature.
It was the same result as in 2010.
Exit polling from Tuesday’s election conducted for The Associated Press and television networks showed four out of five Republicans stuck with Roberts over independent candidate Greg Orman and with Brownback over Democrat Paul Davis.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Opponents have turned in petitions seeking a public vote on a new Springfield policy that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s non-discrimination ordinance.
City officials announced Wednesday that opponents turned in petitions with more than 2,300 signatures. The City Clerk will verify if the signatures contain the required 1,144 certified signatures, which is 10 percent of the votes cast in the most recent municipal election.
The City Council voted in October to amend the city’s ordinance to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the ordinance.
The clerk’s office has 20 days to certify the signatures. After that, the council must either repeal the ordinance or send it to voters, likely in April 2015.
DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Chiefs have signed fullback Anthony Sherman, who has helped pave the way for one of the NFL’s top rushing offenses, to a three-year contract extension.
A person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Monday that Sherman can earn up to $7 million over the life of the contract. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Chiefs did not reveal the terms of the contract.
Sherman has started 21 of the 51 games he’s played in over the past four seasons. The past two have been spent in Kansas City, where has been the lead blocker for Jamaal Charles.
Sherman has also proven valuable as a short-yardage receiver out of the backfield, catching 36 passes for 315 yards and two touchdowns in his career.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Secretary of State Jason Kander says about 35.23 percent of eligible Missouri voters participated in this year’s elections.
That’s slightly lower than the 40 percent Kander’s office predicted before Tuesday’s election.
Kander’s office announced Wednesday that unofficial results showed slightly more than 1.4 million of Missouri’s 4 million registered voters went to the polls.
The three counties with the highest turnout were Knox County, with 52.11 percent; Schuyler, 50.82 percent; and Worth, 50.30 percent.
In Buchanan County voter turnout was 39.45 percent, only slightly lower then the anticipated 40 percent margin.
Kander says the proposed constitutional amendment concerning teacher tenure and evaluations drew the most voter participation. Voters rejected the
amendment.
State law requires results to be certified by Dec. 9.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Anheuser-Busch executive and a prominent lawyer have been tapped by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to consider options that will ensure the future of pro football in St. Louis.
Nixon on Wednesday announced the appointment of former A-B president David Peacock and attorney Robert Blitz. They will analyze the stadium issue that is threatening to send the St. Louis Rams packing and present options within 60 days.
Peacock worked with the NFL on advertising and marketing while with A-B and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame advisory board member. Blitz was on the legal team that helped bring the Rams from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995.
The Rams say the taxpayer-funded Edward Jones Dome needs hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in Congress are adjusting to a new political dynamic today after voters used the midterm elections to sharpen the dividing lines in an already divided government.
The president has scheduled an afternoon news conference to offer his take on an Election Day thumping of Democrats that has given Republicans control of the Senate and new power to check his proposals.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also plans to speak. He’s positioned to become the new majority leader and confront the president over his signature health care law and other issues.
Obama placed a post-midnight call to McConnell, but the two didn’t connect because McConnell already had gone to bed.
The White House says Obama did speaking with congressional leaders from both parties before he went to bed. He’s been making more calls today.
