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Stories by Maria Andres include:

• 4/29/1999: Newspaper Story - While not apologizing for the commutation decision, the governor expressed his disappointment with how the decision had been communicated to relatives of Darrell Mease's victims. "That was due to human error and completely unintentional," Carnahan said.
• 4/27/1999: Newspaper Story - The campaign to toughen drunken driving laws scored a major legislative victory in Missouri's Senate.
• 4/22/1999: Newspaper Story - A new house bill that supports 0.08 BAC level was approved by the full house. The sponsor, however, is concern about the little chance of the plan to be approved now by the Senate.
• 4/20/1999: Newspaper Story - Nearly 300 students joined on Missouri's statehouse to rally legislators to lower the blood alcohol content from 0.1 percent to 0.08 percent.
• 4/ 8/1999: Newspaper Story - Although the bill that tries to lower the Blood Alcohol Content to 0.08 percent was killed by a senate committee, MADD will gather a students meeting in the capitol to fight for the 0.08 initiative.
• 4/ 6/1999: Newspaper Story - Senator Caskey has killed the proposal to lower the current blood alcohol content from 0.1 percent to 0.8 percent.
• 3/ 2/1999: Newspaper Story - Transportation commission has approved one bill to make the driver license's photo a confidential information. Nobody would have access to it except the news media organization, that are allowed to get it and publish it. Under the current law, the photos are public records.
• 2/25/1999: Newspaper Story - If the bill becomes a law, drivers under 18 only could get an "intermediate" driving license, with some restrictions. For example, they would not be allowed to drive between 1 and 5 a.m.
• 2/ 9/1999: Newspaper Story - If a St. Louis lawmaker is successful, drivers with 10 or more parking tickets in the same city would have their driver's license revoked until they pay all their fines.