Olivia Carter is the 2021 School Counselor of the Year, Missouri School Counselor of the Year, and the school counselor at Jefferson Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Carter, who has been a counselor for ten years, says she thinks she was chosen for the national award after helping her elementary school reduce in-school discipline […]
(Missouri Independent) – Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is calling for the Biden administration to intervene to block the state’s new emergency regulation that abortion advocates contend could cut off Medicaid funding for its clinics around the state. Without federal action, Planned Parenthood said it may need to turn to the courts. […]
Evergy on Monday issued a Request for Proposals for wind energy to supply the needs of its customers. The request solicits bids for Evergy’s purchase of wind resources of up to 1,000 megawatts (MW) that will be in service by 2026. Evergy reports projects that achieve commercial operation by mid-2024 and year-end 2025 will be […]
(Missouri Independent) – A six-week abortion ban in Texas enacted in September forced those seeking abortion services in the Lone Star State to look across state lines for care. But the timing couldn’t have been worse for Texans living near the state’s eastern border. The law took effect as neighboring Louisiana was reeling from the […]
International relief organization Samaritan’s Purse provides partners around the world with shoebox gifts through Operation Christmas Child. The boxes can be filled with items and are given to children in need in countries around the world. National Collection Week is November 15th through 22nd. There are multiple area drop-off locations with varied hours. They include […]
The Missouri Bicentennial Quilt will be displayed in Chillicothe today and Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at the Sliced Bread Innovation Center at 100 Elm Street at the southern edge of the downtown area. A quilt exhibit is to be open to the public today from Noon until 8 p.m. and Tuesday from 8 until 4 […]
A Marceline resident was hurt when the pickup truck he was driving overturned off a lettered road in Macon County. Thirty-eight-year-old Jason Farris was taken by private vehicle to Samaritan Hospital in Macon with minor injuries. The accident happened early Saturday four miles south of Bevier on Route C as the northbound pickup went off […]
Liberty North was the Grand Champion of the Cameron Marchfest on Saturday. The award is based on the highest number of combined points in the parade and field show judging. Liberty North was first in the class five parade division and second behind Liberty in the class five field show. Other first-place finishers in the […]
The Kirksville High School band was the Grand Champion on Saturday at the Missouri Day Marching Festival in Trenton. Kirksville won the Hannaford Sweepstakes Award. Kirksville was the top band in its class in each event it entered including field show, parade, indoor auxiliary, and indoor drumline. Kirksville also won all the caption awards in […]
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources awarded $339,559 in financial assistance through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Regionalization Incentive Grant program to the village of Ludlow. The funding will be used to construct a connection between Ludlow’s wastewater treatment system and the Southwest Livingston County R-1 School. This grant will fund 100% of the […]
A Carrollton woman sustained injuries when a vehicle overturned in northwest Carroll County the night on Friday, October 15. An air ambulance transported 31-year-old April Shackelford to the Liberty Hospital with moderate injuries. The vehicle traveled north on Route D before running off the road half of a mile south of County Road 130, striking […]
Andrew County Interstate 29 – Bridge replacement project northbound over Hopkins Creek (mile marker 58) through October * (Capital Paving & Construction, LLC) I-29 – Bridge painting project at the Nodaway River Bridge (mile marker 66.4) through mid-November I-229 – Permit work north of Route K, Oct. 16 – 22 One lane will remain open […]
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt joined a 19-state coalition urging Congress to reject burdensome legislation that would increase fees on energy producers and hit American consumers with even greater price hikes. The two bills in question are the Methane Emissions Reduction Act in the Senate and a provision of the Build Back Better Act in […]
(Missouri Independent) – Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is calling for the Biden administration to intervene to block the state’s new emergency regulation that abortion advocates contend could cut off Medicaid funding for its clinics around the state. Without federal action, Planned Parenthood said it may need to turn to the courts. […]
A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Howell, Greene, and Texas counties. Jose I. Gonzales, 39, of West Plains, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 10 years in federal prison without parole. On July 23, 2020, Gonzales pleaded guilty to […]
The Jamesport City Council on October 11 accepted an offer from Blue Cross and Blue Shield for employee health insurance. This was after a discussion on the lack of options available. City Clerk Shelley Page reports the insurance will cost $387.70 more in total per month than the previous plan for the two city employees. […]
A Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving and distributing hundreds of images and videos of child pornography. Chandler Durham, 31, of Springfield, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to one count of receiving and distributing child pornography. On Feb. 5, 2020, a detective with the Southwest Missouri Cyber […]
A Cameron girl received minor injuries in a rollover accident Monday morning five miles northwest of Cameron. The 16-year-old girl was taken by a private vehicle to the Cameron Regional Medical Center. The southbound sports utility vehicle traveled off the west side of Southeast Irwin Road and overturned into a creek. Vehicle damage was extensive […]
(Missouri Independent) – Former President Donald Trump ruminated on election fraud and Democratic wrongdoing during a rally on Saturday while teasing a potential 2024 run. Trump gave a warm greeting to Iowans and touted his win in Iowa in 2020 and his latest Des Moines Register/Iowa Poll numbers. “As disastrous as the Biden administration has been, no […]
One person was hurt when two vehicles attempted to turn at a Polo intersection. Seventy-seven-year-old Sherry Funk of Stanberry was taken to Cameron Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. She was a passenger in a sports utility vehicle driven by 78-year old Herman Funk of Stanberry who wasn’t hurt. The driver of the other vehicle, […]
