State Treasurer Vivek Malek announced sharp growth in MO ABLE, a program his office administers. MO ABLE was established as a tool to allow eligible Missourians with disabilities to invest and grow their money in a manner that doesn’t threaten their income eligibility for other public benefits. Background: In 2015, then State Sen. Eric Schmitt […]
(Missouri Independent) – Missouri’s proposed social-emotional-learning standards are being refined to focus on student behavior after the State Board of Education reviewed over 1,800 public comments on the program. Some board members referred to the current draft as a “beginning,” and the board decided not to vote on passing the standards during its meeting Tuesday. The public was invited […]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey obtained a conviction for Statutory Rape in the First Degree against Brett Pendleton of Franklin County in connection to the sexual abuse of his eight-year-old daughter in 2018. Additionally, the defendant was convicted of five counts of Statutory Sodomy in the First Degree, an Attempt to Commit Statutory Sodomy in the First […]
A bookkeeper from Shrewsbury, Missouri who embezzled $849,000 from a client and blamed one of her employees was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey also ordered Cora G. Willard, 47, to repay the money. She repaid $100,000 Wednesday. Willard ran a bookkeeping, payroll, and […]
U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Wednesday sentenced a man who recorded his rape of a young girl and an infant to 80 years in prison. Mark Anthony Davis, 36, of Clark County, Missouri, pleaded guilty in May to two counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. […]
A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to commit a series of armed robberies of local businesses in the summer of 2018, as well as an armed robbery in which a convenience store employee was beaten and fatally shot. Louis Candler, 27, was sentenced by U.S. […]
A Bakersfield, California, man was indicted by a federal grand jury for smuggling more than six kilograms of fentanyl through Kansas City aboard a train en route to St. Louis, Mo. Cesar Angulo Ramos, 18, was charged with possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in […]
A Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury after law enforcement officers found 29 firearms in his residence, along with significant amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Charles J. Dunne, 60, was charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo. The indictment replaces a federal […]
A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and for illegally possessing a firearm. Ryan Edwad Knudsen, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes to 10 years in federal prison without parole. On June 20, 2023, Knudsen pleaded guilty to one count […]
Missouri nonfarm payroll employment increased by 5,200 jobs in September 2023, and the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point. Private industry employment increased by 4,700 jobs and government employment increased by 500 jobs. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.9 percent in September 2023, up from 2.8 percent in […]
Local, state, and nonprofit agencies and organizations in Missouri seeking reimbursement for expenses due to the severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding from July 29 to Aug. 14, 2023, have until 11:59 p.m. Oct. 21, 2023, to submit their requests to the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). Public Assistance federal funding is available […]
SPX Cooling Tech, a full-service cooling tower, and air-cooled heat exchanger manufacturer, announced today that it plans to open a manufacturing facility in Springfield, creating more than 60 new jobs as part of a capital plan focused on the incremental capacity of SPX Cooling Tech products manufactured in the U.S. “Missouri continues to stand out […]
Two people lost their lives in a multi-vehicle accident on Highway 65 near Arbor Road in Saline County, as confirmed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The accident, which occurred on October 17, 2023, at around 4:35 p.m., involved a 2018 Kubota tractor, a 2005 Kawasaki motorcycle, and a 2003 Chevrolet Impala. According to the […]
(Missouri Independent) – Missouri Commissioner of Education Margie Vandeven announced on Tuesday that she plans to resign at the end of June. After making her announcement during the State Board of Education meeting, Vandeven told reporters it was “the right time to move on personally and professionally to a new opportunity [she] hasn’t discovered yet.” […]
A new report issued by State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick reveals how a husband and wife duo violated the Missouri Constitution and mismanaged the Dunklin County Sewer District for years, resulting in at least $62,579 in missing or misappropriated funds, additional missing money estimated to be at least $98,096, and the district being placed in receivership. […]
On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, a collision occurred involving a 2013 Peterbilt and a 2012 Buick Enclave on Highway 136, approximately four miles west of Wayland, Missouri, as confirmed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The accident, which took place at around 12:35 p.m., involved the Buick Enclave, driven by Tressa M. Boyd, 36, of […]
An accident left a man with moderate injuries on the morning of October 17, 2023, as reported by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. At approximately 11:30 a.m., Paul W. Mott, 33, of St. Joseph, was driving a 2022 Nissan Sentra southbound on Interstate 29 near mile marker 47.6. According to the accident report, Mott’s car […]
U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Tuesday sentenced a man who provided the fentanyl that killed a Florissant, Missouri woman in 2020 to 13 ½ years in prison. Jerome Middleton, 46, of Calverton Park, pleaded guilty in June to a felony charge of knowingly distributing fentanyl, resulting in death. He admitted supplying the fentanyl […]
The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Joseph A. Morgan, 48, of Fredericktown, Missouri, has been sentenced to serve 87 months in federal prison for the offense of Possession of Child Pornography. Morgan appeared for his sentencing hearing Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Sarah A. Pitlyk at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. According […]
A Springfield, Mo., man who possessed thousands of videos and photos of child pornography was sentenced in federal court for trading those images of child sexual abuse over the internet. Craig Allen Rhoden, 55, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips to 15 years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered […]
