JEFFERSON CITY - Grass Roots Organizing launched a campaign that would restore Medicaid benefits to thousands of Missourians.

The inititaive would also prevent the state from ending Medicaid coverage in 2008.

JEFFERSON CITY - One recent Missouri veteren was told a Military ID is not sufficient proof to obtain a driver's liscense.

The military performs background checks before it issues Military ID cards.

JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri has secured its largest-ever Medicaid fraud settlement with a company that illegally marketed the AIDS drug Serostim.

JEFFERSON CITY - The four hundred thousand dollar grant funds four workforce counselors based out of St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Cape Girardeau to advise hurricane evacuees. There are approximately fifteen thousand evacuees across the state.

JEFFERSON CITY - Following the success of the Fort Zumwalt School District's new drug testing policy, other districts across the state are looking to add programs of their own.

The recently added program is a voluntary one that tests for both recreational drugs and steroids.

JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Transportation want to use the cell phone signals of commuters to track traffic.

The project would start Jan. 1.

JEFFERSON CITY - Senate Juriciary Committee Chair Matt Bartle isn't push for or against cigarette tax increase.

Bartle predicts Missourians will vote against the tax increase.

JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Deparatment of Transportation is finalizing a contract that will allow them to track traffic throughout the state.

The department will be able to gather average car speeds, traffic delays and travel time estimates throught cell phone signals.

JEFFERSON CITY - Tests over the past three years have revealed no cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in Missouri.

However, six neighboring states have documented cases of the disease in their deer population.

JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's legislature will find itself left out in the cold if the state's health care industry succeeds with two ballot issues to amend Missouri's constitution.

JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's Agriculture Department is leaving avian flu testing in the hands of the state's chicken farmers.

It says it's comfortable companies will report cases of bird flu.

JEFFERSON CITY - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state must assist a pregnant inmate in getting an abortion.

The ruling struck down a Department of Corrections policy forbidding the transportation or security for any inmate seeking an abortion.