A KMOV News 4 Investigation reveals Missouri residents receiving food stamps and welfare payments are spending them in places like Hawaii, California, and Florida.
News 4 requested public information regarding these expenses through the Missouri Department of Social Services. The agency provided a state by state break down of where Missouri benefits are being spent, click here to see the list.
In January Missouri EBT cards were used to withdraw $362,682 in cash outside the state. During that same time period Missouri EBT cards purchased $3,521,974 worth of food outside Missouri. Those card users racked up $752 worth of ATM fees, they were also paid by taxpayers.
Many of the EBT purchases were in border states, but a large chunk of change was spent in hard to reach places like California, Alaska, and Hawaii.
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HB 1938 reads in part:
(b) An airport operator may not allow body imaging scanning equipment to be installed or operated in any airport in this state.
(c) An airport operator commits an offense if the operator fails to comply with Subsection (b).
(d) An airport operator who commits an offense under Subsection (c) is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each day of the violation.
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Sarah Carter (right) died after suffering from food poisoning in Thailand
Sarah Carter (right) died after suffering from food poisoning in Thailand
Auckland-born Miss Carter died in mysterious circumstances on February 6, and police now say an elderly British couple and a female Thai tour guide died after staying in the Downtown Inn last month.
Miss Carter, 23, died in a Thai hospital and her friends Amanda Eliason, 24, and Emma Langlands, 23, were violently ill.
Initial reports said they were hit by food poisoning but tests had proved inconclusive, said Thai police.
The tour guide died the day before Ms Carter fell ill and the two British tourists [died] several days later.
Police said there was nothing to indicate the deaths were linked.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to Yemen's streets on Tuesday, dedicating a new "Day of Rage" to the people killed in protests in recent months and calling for an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule.
Huge crowds poured onto the streets of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday in what the opposition hailed as the biggest protest yet against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule.
The veteran leader, whose supporters staged a large counter-demonstration, dismissed the opposition rally as a copycat action mimicking protests in other Arab countries that he charged had been fanned by Israel and the United States.
He then sacked the governors of five provinces where anti-regime protests have been raging, mostly in the regions that made former South Yemen.
An official announcement said Saleh has removed the governors of Aden, Lahij and Abyan in the south, as well as Hadramut in the southeast and Hudayda in the west.
Saleh's opponents massed from early morning in streets leading to a square near Sanaa University, where students and pro-democracy demonstrators have been camped for more than a week.
"The people want Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave," the protesters chanted. "The people want to overthrow the regime."
Huge crowds poured onto the streets of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday in what the opposition hailed as the biggest protest yet against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule.
The veteran leader, whose supporters staged a large counter-demonstration, dismissed the opposition rally as a copycat action mimicking protests in other Arab countries that he charged had been fanned by Israel and the United States.
He then sacked the governors of five provinces where anti-regime protests have been raging, mostly in the regions that made former South Yemen.
An official announcement said Saleh has removed the governors of Aden, Lahij and Abyan in the south, as well as Hadramut in the southeast and Hudayda in the west.
Saleh's opponents massed from early morning in streets leading to a square near Sanaa University, where students and pro-democracy demonstrators have been camped for more than a week.
"The people want Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave," the protesters chanted. "The people want to overthrow the regime."
Hi-techface recognition gates at a busy airport were suspended after they allowed a man back into the country on his wife's passport.
It is understood an immigration officer double-checking the data on a computer picked up the blunder and the man was stopped before he left Manchester Airport's Terminal One.
The couple are thought to have swapped passports accidentally. The woman could not pass through the gates, which match a face to a digital photo stored on 'chipped' passports.
It is understood an immigration officer double-checking the data on a computer picked up the blunder and the man was stopped before he left Manchester Airport's Terminal One.
The couple are thought to have swapped passports accidentally. The woman could not pass through the gates, which match a face to a digital photo stored on 'chipped' passports.
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Blunder: High-tech face recognition gates at Manchester Airport were suspended after they allowed a man back into the country on his wife's passport
Blunder: High-tech face recognition gates at Manchester Airport were suspended after they allowed a man back into the country on his wife's passport
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TCHC CEO Keiko Nakamura is not assenting to Mayor Rob Ford's demands that she resign. Chair David Mitchell, right, tendered his resignation with six other citizen board members on Thursday.
TCHC CEO Keiko Nakamura is not assenting to Mayor Rob Ford's demands that she resign. Chair David Mitchell, right, tendered his resignation with six other citizen board members on Thursday.
Seven of the nine citizen board members of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation have tendered their resignations in the wake of a scathing report that uncovered questionable spending and millions in improperly tendered contracts.
The seven, including TCHC Chair David Mitchell, said they were stepping down at a public meeting Thursday morning.
"The appointees take full responsibility for the finding in the ... report," Mitchell said, adding the members felt they couldn't work with Mayor Rob Ford, who has demanded their resignations.
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Indian Muslims wearing niqab (face veils).
Indian Muslims wearing niqab (face veils).
France will start enforcing a ban next month on full Islamic face veils, officials said on Thursday, meaning any veiled woman can be summoned to a police station and asked to remove her face-covering or pay a fine.
Officials say the law is mainly symbolic and police will not call in every veiled woman they see to avoid stigmatising Muslims.
But a Paris imam said forcing veiled women to present themselves at a police station would be just as uncomfortable.
When France passed the ban on full face veils last year, Muslim leaders voiced concern it could lead to veiled women being unfairly treated by police or singled out for harassment.
Police say a 2-year-old boy was found wandering on the streets of Charleroi.
The toddler had no shoes or jacket when a passer-by noticed him walking into the street as a car approached.
Investigators say they went door-to-door and found the people who were supposed to be watching the child.
The boy's mother told police she'd left the boy and a 4-month-old girl in the care of two others while she attended parenting classes. She is not charged but police say endangerment charges are pending against her boyfriend's father and sister.
The toddler had no shoes or jacket when a passer-by noticed him walking into the street as a car approached.
Investigators say they went door-to-door and found the people who were supposed to be watching the child.
The boy's mother told police she'd left the boy and a 4-month-old girl in the care of two others while she attended parenting classes. She is not charged but police say endangerment charges are pending against her boyfriend's father and sister.
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The Rev. Edward Fairley, right, is accused of stabbing The Rev. Simone Shields
The Rev. Edward Fairley, right, is accused of stabbing The Rev. Simone Shields
They worked at the same church at some point and, according to police, were in a relationship.
It took a brutal turn Tuesday morning when, authorities and a witness say, the Rev. Edward Fairley stormed into an Eastside home and, without a word, stabbed the Rev. Simone Shields several times in the face and torso, leaving her to lie in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.
Shields, 52, was eventually rescued by police and taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. She remains in critical but stable condition, police said.
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Prosecutors said Locker had been looking for someone to kill him
Prosecutors said Locker had been looking for someone to kill him
Kenneth Minor testified that he held the knife against the steering wheel while author and business coach Jeffrey Locker plunged his body on to it.
Locker was deep in debt and hoped to stage his own murder so his family could collect $18m (£11m) insurance.
"This was murder for money, not a mercy killing," prosecutor Cyrus Vance said.
Minor faces life in prison after a jury found him guilty on Thursday of second-degree murder.
On 16 July 2009, Locker, 52, was found stabbed to death in his car in the East Harlem neighbourhood of New York City's Manhattan borough, his hands tied behind his back.
Minor was arrested five days later. Surveillance video showed him entering Locker's car the night of the killing and using the dead man's bank card later.
