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1997 Crime Stories

• 12/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Legislative leaders react to the four-year sentence of the former House Speaker.
• 11/20/1997: Radio Story - Two months after Missouri tightened its rules on methadone, federal scientists suggest easing methadone prescription.
• 11/ 4/1997: Radio Story - State prisons take in more than three times as many criminals with non-violent convictions as those with violent convictions.
• 10/22/1997: Radio Story - The governor denies clemency for convicted killer Alan Bannister.
• 10/21/1997: Radio Story - TV Actor Ed Asner pleads for the life of convicted killer Alan Bannister.
• 10/ 7/1997: Radio Story - The governor plans anti-meth legislation by December.
• 10/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Heroin and methamphetamine abusers should suffer the same penalties according to a top Missouri prosecutor.
• 10/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - Governor, attorney general, and several other law enforcement heavies attend methamphetamine summit in capital.
• 10/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Feature on dedicated anti-death penalty protesters.
• 10/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Feature on inmates living in tents at Missouri prisons.
• 10/ 2/1997: Radio Story - Proposed methamphetamine regulations would make it harder to buy cold medicine.
• 9/ 2/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri would pay for James Earl Ray's liver transplant if he's released from Tennessee prison.
• 8/29/1997: Newspaper Story - Cole County's prosecutor uses the new witness immunity law just minutes after it took effect on midnight.
• 8/28/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor rejects the idea of an early release for inmates returned from Texas.
• 8/28/1997: Radio Story - The governor will not consider commuting sentences as a solution to overcrowding.
• 5/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The House votes to hold a statewide vote on the issue of concealed weapons.
• 5/12/1997: Radio Story - Senator Peter Kinder said his bill was not designed to allow all citizens to carry concealed weapons only reitired judges, police officers and state officials
• 5/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri lawmakers send the governor one of the biggest anti-crime measures in decades -- witness immunity.
• 5/ 7/1997: Newspaper Story - Chemical castration requirements for sex offenders is declared dead for the 1997 legislative session.
• 5/ 6/1997: Radio Story - House votes to subject repeat sex offenders to chemical castration drugs.
• 5/ 6/1997: Radio Story - Chemical castration is now part of a bill that would punish the spreading of AIDS
• 5/ 1/1997: Newspaper Story - About $14,600 in reimbursements were disbursed based on the questionable receipts.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Budget Committee approves two new prisons after lobbying by the governor.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers and education lobbyists reached a compromise. A bill that would build two new maximum security prisons and give money to University of Missouri systems for renovations passed in the House Budget committee.
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan and legislators split on whether to build one or two new prisons. The U.M. system wants some building money also.
• 4/17/1997: Radio Story - Fred Goldman joins Attorney General Jay Nixon in support of victims rights
• 4/15/1997: Newspaper Story - Packed-pistols supporter declares the concealed weapons issue finished for this year.
• 4/15/1997: Radio Story - Retired cops and judges could carry "packed pistols" under a measure approved by the Senate.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Crime victims met at the Capitol for the first act of the Crime Victim's Rights Week.
• 4/14/1997: Newspaper Story - Missouri's welfare agency says it is not sure it wants to test welfare recipients for drugs, as the Senate proposed in its version of welfare reform.
• 4/12/1997: Radio Story - The House approved an amendment that would provide more safe places for battered women in Missouri.
• 3/26/1997: If lawmakers have their way prostitutes will have to undergo HIV tests upon conviction
• 3/20/1997: Newspaper Story - AHouse Committee heard testimony on a bill that would require some sex offenders to be chemically castrated.
• 3/17/1997: Radio Story - The senate perfects a measure to allow parole and probation officers to carry a badge and to carry a weapon
• 3/17/1997: Radio Story - The Missouri House adopted a bill that creates tougher penalties for violating Missouri hunting statutes.
• 3/ 4/1997: Newspaper Story - The "Party Cove" at Lake of the Ozarks would face regulation if two representatives have their way.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Native Americans say they deserve the right to practice their religion in state prisons.
• 3/ 4/1997: A bill that will terminate parental rights of convicted rapists has pro-life implications.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - A bill, passed out of the House Civil Committee, will terminate parental rights of a convicted rapist.
• 3/ 4/1997: Radio Story - A proposed bill would ban the party cove for safety reasons.
• 3/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Legalization of industrial hemp production clears a House Committee.
• 3/ 3/1997: Radio Story - Although auto theft decreased slightly from last year, it's still costing the state big bucks.
• 2/28/1997: Radio Story - State Legislature proposed to implement a needle exchange program through the health department.
• 2/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Background feature on legislation to terminate parental rights of rapists.
• 2/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Anti-death penalty advocates hold mock execution in Capitol rotunda.
• 2/24/1997: Radio Story - The Senate approves allowing clean records for some convicted felons.
• 2/19/1997: It would be a crime to harass a fisherman under a bill approved by the House Parks Committee.
• 2/18/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislative committee hears testimoney on proposal to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
• 2/18/1997: Radio Story - Some state lawmakers want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
• 2/17/1997: Radio Story - AIDS victim urges tougher laws against spreading HIV.
• 2/17/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers urged to legalize and promote industrial hemp production.
• 2/10/1997: Newspaper Story - Lawmakers propose regulating bounty hunters.
• 2/ 6/1997: Newspaper Story - Hookers would be tested under a bill proposed to Missouri lawmakers.
• 2/ 6/1997: Radio Story - Needle Exchange program has been sent to the House floor by the Health Committee.
• 2/ 5/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker considers resigning after being arrested for drunken driving.
• 2/ 5/1997: Radio Story - A bill would make mandatory HIV testing for convicted prostitution.
• 2/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Lawmaker proposes task force to help children with parents in prison.
• 2/ 4/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers consider letting teens on court juries.
• 2/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - In his State of the State address, Gov. Carnahan emphasized crime, education and day care.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - New prisons tops governor's legislative agenda presented to lawmakers.
• 1/22/1997: Radio Story - Missouri's governor calls on legislators to build new prisons and boost education funding, but leaves HMO regulation off his agenda.