The superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces it will offer its first 15-week accelerated academy to law enforcement professionals interested in becoming a trooper. This accelerated training is the Patrol’s newest approach to hire the most qualified applicants for the position of trooper. To be eligible, candidates must possess an active Missouri Class […]
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Putnam County Health Department reports 19 active cases of COVID-19; one UK Variant, no cases of Delta variant, 10 breakthrough cases
The Putnam County Health Department August 11th reported 19 active COVID-19 cases out of the 566 total. There were 38 hospitalizations and 13 deaths. There had been 26 positive test results so far for August. That is more than the months of June and July combined for Putnam County. The health department urges residents to […]
Grundy County reports a COVID-related death and 17 new cases of COVID-19; Daviess County reports 19 new cases, Livingston County 13
The Grundy County Health Department announces an additional COVID-19-related death, bringing the total to 42. Seventeen new cases have been reported since August 9th, making that total 1,413. Sixty-one cases are active, which the health department reports is the highest number of active cases since January 19th. The active cases include 24 Grundy County residents […]
Jamesport City Council sets tax rate; accepts salary ordinance
The Jamesport City Council set the tax rate prior to the regular meeting on Monday, August 9, 2021. The rate was set at $.927 per $100 of assessed valuation, which breaks down to $.7495 for the general fund and $.1775 for the park fund. During the regular meeting, the council accepted a salary ordinance. City […]
Trenton Board of Education discusses COVID-19 protocols during lengthy meeting
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education on August 10th discussed COVID-19-related matters for the upcoming school year. Superintendent Mike Stegman began by going over a list of protocols. They included staff and students attending school in person and using social distancing. Masks will be optional for staff and students inside district facilities. It is “highly […]
New cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Sullivan, Linn and Livingston counties
The Sullivan County Health Department August 10 confirmed eight additional COVID-19 cases, bringing the total to 1,054. Fifty cases were active, and seventeen COVID-19-related deaths had been reported. The health department noted 2,249 Sullivan County residents had initiated a vaccine series as of August 9, and 1,900 residents had completed a vaccine series. The percentage […]
Senator Hawley announces 15 amendments to budget, calls to pass parent tax credit, hire 100,000 new police, and reopen schools
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he will introduce 15 amendments to the Democrats’ newly-proposed $3.5 trillion budget resolution for Fiscal Year 2022. Senator Hawley’s amendments would allow for the hiring of 100,000 new police officers, restrict federal funding for K-12 schools that refuse to fully reopen, fight back against critical race theory, and protect the […]
Missouri seeks to boost prizes in local vaccine incentive program
(Missouri Independent) – Prizes awarded through a vaccine incentive program offered by local public health departments in Missouri may get boosted to $100-per-person under a new federal allowance. After previously rejecting Missouri’s proposal to exceed a $25 limit on prizes paid for with federal funding to incentivize immunizations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently […]
Less than half of Missouri nursing home staff vaccinated, reviving fear of lockdowns
(Missouri Independent) – Many of the staff and residents in Shunda Whitfield’s St. Louis County nursing home were sick before they even realized what was going on. It was April 2020, and masks weren’t yet standard practice. Little was known about COVID before it swept through nursing homes, and as a certified nursing assistant, Whitfield […]
Hawley introduces “Global Force Management Oversight Act” to prioritize China threat
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Global Force Management Oversight Act. This legislation will ensure Congress has the information it needs to help the Department of Defense (DoD) balance between combatant commanders’ seemingly unlimited requests for forces and the need to stay focused on China and the Indo-Pacific. “The Department of Defense says it’s prioritizing the […]
Hawley calls on USDA to hold meatpackers accountable for anti-competitive conduct
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) urged U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to leverage the full scope of his statutory authority to hold meatpackers accountable for anticompetitive behavior, including threatening to revoke inspection services for these companies, which would have a major impact on their bottom-line. “After years of consolidation in the beef, pork, and chicken […]
Missouri receives $1.3 billion payment of American Rescue Plan funds
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced the State of Missouri has received $1,342,648,065.40 in funds allocated to the State by the American Rescue Plan. Missouri’s full allocation is $2,685,296,130.80. Under the American Rescue Plan, all Missouri counties, regardless of population and metropolitan cities with a population of over 50,000, are eligible to receive their allocated […]
Daviess County Health Department reports 25 new cases of COVID-19; Sullivan County 9 new cases
Twenty-five COVID-19 cases have been added in Daviess County since July 28th. The health department reports 805 total cases, and 25 are active. Of the active cases, 13 involve residents at least 60 years old, six involve those 40 to 59, five involve those 20 to 39, and one involves a resident 19 or younger. […]
Cease and desist ordered after ponzi-style scheme defrauds Missourians
Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s Securities Division issued a final cease and desist order against Monarch Capital Investment Fund, LLC, and top executive Timothy Patrick Peabody after several investors in Missouri were defrauded. Missouri Commissioner of Securities David Minnick found that between April 2015 and October 2016, Peabody, “engaged in fraudulent or deceitful acts and […]
John Stamos to perform with The Beach Boys at Missouri State Fair
John Stamos will be performing with The Beach Boys during our show at the Missouri State Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 18. Stamos is a two-time Emmy Award-nominated television, film, and theater actor and producer with a career spanning many decades. A gifted drummer, singer, and musician, Stamos has toured, recorded, and collaborated with The Beach […]
Missouri AG files suit against Kansas City over mask mandate; obtains restraining order, halts St. Louis County mandate
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today filed a lawsuit to halt the recently imposed mask mandate in Kansas City. The suit, which was filed this afternoon in Jackson County, argues that the mask mandate imposed is unreasonable, unconstitutional, and arbitrary, and capricious. The suit names Mayor Quinton Lucas, the Kansas City, Missouri Health Department, and […]
Area counties in north Missouri report 28 cases of COVID-19
The Sullivan County Health Department confirms two more COVID-19 cases, which brings the total to 1,003. Forty-nine cases are active. There have been 17 COVID-19-related deaths reported for Sullivan County. Thirty point seven percent of county residents have completed vaccination. The Livingston County Health Center reported August 3 two additional COVID-19-related deaths. One of the deaths […]
Powersville man charged with Burglary and child neglect after breaking into home in Unionville
A Powersville man faces felony charges of abuse or neglect of a child and first-degree burglary after he allegedly entered a Unionville residence uninvited to take his two minor children in May. Forty-year-old Anthony Brandon Pearson has also been charged with two misdemeanor counts of violation of an order of protection for an adult and […]
Advocates say Missouri’s eviction crisis could be a ‘humanitarian tragedy’
(Missouri Independent) – Melissa Pashia is hoping for any kind of good news today. The federal eviction moratorium ended Saturday, and she’s got her fingers crossed one of her clients will finally get approved for the rental assistance that they applied for in April through the State Assistance for Housing Relief Program (SAFHR). The aid approval […]