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Groups urge those in charge of voting-district maps to put Missouri voters over partisan interests in redistricting

Views: 0Redistricting reformers urged the people charged with drawing new voting-district maps in Missouri to commit to putting the voters over partisan interests. Governor Mike Parson has appointed a bipartisan group of commissioners to draw state legislative maps. The Legislature draws congressional maps. Caroline Fan, founder and president of the Missouri Asian American Youth Foundation said […]

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Missouri Attorney General obtains $26,000 in restitution for victims of Buchanan County contractor

Views: 0Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced that Kansas-City-area contractor Brian S. Pummell will pay back over $26,000 in restitution to Missourians who paid Pummell for work he never performed. “Protecting consumers is an important duty of the Attorney General’s Office, and the dedicated investigators, hotline operators, and attorneys in the Consumer Protection Section of […]

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News from the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court for Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Views: 0Preliminary hearings were waived by four defendants when they appeared Tuesday in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court. Chillicothe resident Tesse Janell Carman faces two felony drug possession counts and three misdemeanor counts stemming from a June 25 arrest. Tristan Lee Vencill of Trenton is charged with delivering a controlled substance from […]

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Cameron Police Department arrest suspect wanted in Iowa

Views: 0The Cameron Police Department took someone into custody on July 6th who was wanted on several warrants from Iowa. Cameron Police Chief Rick Bashor reports the Cameron Detectives Division was contacted by law enforcement officers from Ames, Iowa in reference to a subject wanted on warrants from that jurisdiction. One of the charges was […]

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Woman alleges in lawsuit that former Harrison County sheriff stole drugs, sexually assaulted plaintiff

Views: 1The Associated Press reports a woman has alleged in a civil rights lawsuit that former Harrison County Sheriff Joshua Eckerson gave her drugs and sexually assaulted her. Eckerson killed himself last year after a special prosecutor charged him with misdemeanor counts of misuse of official information by a public servant, trespassing, and domestic assault. […]