Views: 1A September sentencing date has been set for a man from mid-Missouri’s Tipton, who’s been convicted of child sex crimes. 42-year-old Shawn Martin of Tipton has been convicted of five child sex crimes, including statutory rape and sodomy. While Martin is from Tipton, east of Sedalia, prosecutors say the crimes happened more […]
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Missouri Attorney General asks U.S. Supreme Court to review state’s eight-week abortion ban
Views: 0Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a petition for writ of certiorari in Schmitt v. Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, asking the Supreme Court of the United States to review Missouri’s law prohibiting abortions of unborn children with Down syndrome. “My son Stephen has shown me the inherent […]
Missouri House passes Medicaid provider tax bill, preventing major budget cuts
Views: 0(Missouri Independent) – With fewer than 12 hours to spare before the start of a new fiscal year, the Missouri House on Wednesday approved a bill extending medical provider taxes essential to balancing the budget, forestalling more than $700 million in cuts planned by Gov. Mike Parson. Divisions over how and whether to add provisions sought […]
2020 “Focus on Missouri” Agriculture Photo Contest winners announced
Views: 0 A breathtaking photo featuring a glimpse into the life of a Missouri cattle rancher is the Best in Show for the 2021 Focus on Missouri Agriculture Photo Contest, hosted by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. The photograph, submitted by Holly Brown of Webb City, Mo., was chosen from nearly 900 photos submitted by […]
Missouri School Resource Officers Lifetime Service Award named after Livingston County deputy
Views: 1The Missouri School Resource Officers group has named its Lifetime Service Award after a Chillicothe R-9 School District school resource officer. Chillicothe High School reports the award was named after Livingston County Deputy Mike Lewis for his dedication of distinguished and honorable service as a school resource officer. This year’s Mike Lewis Lifetime Service […]
Groups connect Missouri youth in foster care with life and work skills
Views: 0Community partnerships in Missouri are working to help young people, either in or aging out of foster care, connect with the resources they need to start their independent lives, and the pandemic has brought added financial hardship for many. DeWayne Bright, Sr., youth advocate for the Local Investment Commission (LINC) in Kansas City, works […]
Wheels and Wine Car Show results announced
Views: 0Seventy-one vehicles registered for the Wheels and Wine Car Show at the Black Silo Winery of Trenton on June 27. Carl Jones’s 1973 Ford Bronco was named Best of Show and Charity’s Choice. One hundred percent of the entry fees, raffle proceeds, and money from Lance Otto’s pulled pork tent will benefit Life Options […]
‘A highway away’: Delta variant, low vaccine rates cause COVID spike across Missouri
Views: 0(Missouri Independent) – Kendra Findley had thought the Springfield area had seen the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic in December — a month when cases regularly surpassed 200 a day and that saw a record 98 residents die of the virus. Looking back, that was when the Alpha variant, first identified in the U.K., […]
Missouri Senate approves FRA, rejects push to ban Planned Parenthood from Medicaid
Views: 0(Missouri Independent) – A bipartisan coalition handed anti-abortion activists a rare defeat in the Missouri Senate Friday night, rejecting a push to ban Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider as it passed a bill to secure billions for the state’s Medicaid program. And only a restatement of the state’s already existing ban on using public funds […]
USDA, FCC, and NTIA announce interagency agreement to coordinate broadband funding deployment
Views: 0The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced an interagency agreement to share information about and coordinate the distribution of broadband deployment federal funds. In accordance with the Broadband Interagency Coordination Act, the respective Cabinet and agency leaders announced that their agencies […]
Biden-Harris administration extends moratorium of residential evictions in USDA multifamily housing communities
Views: 0The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended through July 31, 2021, the moratorium on evictions of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live in multifamily housing communities supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “The United States is recovering from a nationwide housing affordability crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Wheels and Wine Car Show moved to June 27
Views: 0The Wheels and Wine Car Show at the Black Silo Winery of Trenton has been moved to June 27th due to the weather forecast for June 26th. Vehicle registration will start Sunday morning at 8 o’clock. The entry fee is $20 per class. Gates will open to the public at 10 o’clock. Voting will […]
Woman from Arkansas life flighted to Kirksville after crashing ATV near Green City
Views: 0An Arkansas resident was injured Thursday evening when she jumped from an all-terrain vehicle before it struck a tree. The accident occurred on private property along Route AA, eight miles northeast of Green City. Fifty-nine-year-old Laurie Black of Scotland, Arkansas, was flown by medical helicopter to Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville with moderate […]
Missouri Senate set to debate dueling bills extending tax crucial to Medicaid funding
Views: 0After about three hours of testimony Thursday, the Missouri Senate Appropriations Committee approved two bills to extend medical provider taxes vital to funding the state’s share of Medicaid. The first bill brought up for a vote would extend the taxes for five years, limit the types of contraceptives available to women on Medicaid and block Planned Parenthood […]
Missouri children and families to benefit from Child Tax Credit expansion
Views: 0Missouri is ranked 30th among states for overall child wellbeing in a new report, and advocates for kids and families say the pandemic has underscored the need for strong supports. The Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Book shows 17% of Missouri children lived in poverty in 2019, though that number was down from 2010, […]
USDA invests more than $370,000 to improve community facilities and essential services in rural Missouri
Views: 0U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Missouri Acting State Director D Clark Thomas announced the agency is investing $371,400 to equip, rebuild, and modernize essential services in rural Missouri. The investments will benefit more than 20,000 rural Missourians. “Access to essential community facilities, services, and infrastructure is necessary for all Missourians,” Thomas said. “Today’s […]
Novinger History Day set for June 27
Views: 0History Day will be held in Novinger on June 27, 2021. Attendees can tour the Novinger Log Homestead, Coal Miners Museum, and Methodist Church from 2 to 4 o’clock. They can learn about life in the mid-to-late 1800s at the log homestead and watch demonstrations of skills such as quilting, chair caning, basket weaving, […]
Job Fair and Street Festival to be held at Silver Moon Plaza in Chillicothe
Views: 0Due to the weather, the venue has changed. The event will now be held at the Sliced Bread Innovation Center at 100 Elm Street. Everything else associated with the event remains the same. Three local organizations are bringing a new event to life in Chillicothe on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Grow ChilliMo was created […]
Some of Missouri’s largest CAFOs are seeking less stringent state regulation
Views: 1Eleven of Missouri’s largest concentrated animal feeding operations are working to reduce the state’s oversight of their hog facilities despite a record of manure spills and clean water violations. Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has 11 CAFOs seeking new state permits. The facilities, dotted across northern Missouri, combined are capable of raising […]