SEDALIA – The Missouri State Fair has announced the final concert of the 2024 State Fair concert series. Country music legend Alabama will perform on Saturday, Aug. 17 as part of the State Fair Grandstand, presented by CFM Insurance, concert series at the 2024 Missouri State Fair. An opener for the show will be announced at […]
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SPRINGFIELD – After an extensive Illinois State Police (ISP) investigation into a bomb threat at two state facilities in Springfield, Illinois last month, 23-year-old Gabrielle Williams was taken into custody Thursday, May 9, 2024. On April 22, 2024, the Illinois Department of Human services received a call from an individual saying a bomb had
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JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control announces the arrest of Thomas E. “Tedo” Gamble, 21, formerly of Potosi, Missouri, in connection to the 2021 disappearance of John Paul Parton, of High Ridge, Missouri. Parton was reported missing to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on May 28,
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CHESTER – On Friday May 10 at 830 a.m. Art Zemon, a bicyclist from St. Charles, Missouri, stopped to the Popeye Statue located at the Chester Grade School. Zemon is making a bike trip from St. Charles to Atlanta, Georgia, and happened to see the statue as he was traveling through Chester via
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By Mo State Senator Holly Thompson Rehder Hi y’all! What a week it has been in Jefferson City! There were certainly some highs and lows, but in the end several bills were passed in the Senate and the fiscal year 2025 state operating budget was sent back to the Missouri House of Representatives with the
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CHESTER, Ill. – The tentative agenda has been released for the regular meeting of the Chester School District Board of Education will be held May 15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chester High School High School Family and Consumer Science Classroom (217B) located at 1901 Swanwick Street, Chester, Ill. AGENDA Call to
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CHESTER – As part of the 2023-24 “COPS” program at Chester Grade School, Program Coordinator, Bobby Helmers, Chester Police Chief, visited the school Friday May 10 with a member of the Chester Fire Department and a Chester police officer. Jim Beers Photo They brought with them a fire truck and a police
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PERRYVILLE – Perryville High School’s graduating Class of 2024 has chosen teacher Kersten Fulmer to deliver the commencement address as they bid farewell to PHS on May 17. Commencement ceremonies begin at 7 p.m. at Perry Park Center. Fulmer is a special education teacher at PHS. She joined the staff of Perry County School
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JEFFERSON CITY – From May 18 – 25, Governor Mike Parson and First Lady Teresa Parson will travel to Italy for an international Trade Mission. Italy is a top source of foreign direct investment and a key trade partner for Missouri, with more than $169 million in exports in 2023. Consistent with Governor Parson’s infrastructure and economic
NASHVILLE, Tenn.– Kaitlyn Chung of Sparta has been named among the students who qualified for the Belmont University’s spring 2024 Dean’s List. Approximately 44 percent of the University’s 7,338 undergraduate students qualified for the spring 2024 Dean’s List. “Earning a place on the Dean’s List is a testament to the unwavering diligence, tenacity
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