Missouri's House speaker is recommending mandatory sexual-harassment training each year for members and staff in response to allegations that lawmakers harassed and exchanged sexual texts with interns.
The top-ranking official in the Missouri House says he plans to appoint a bipartisan committee to look into the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the governor's response to it.
All members of the Missouri House of Representatives from Northeast Missouri voted to put a sales tax increase for transportation before voters in November.