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Truman State University announces academic honor rolls

KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Truman State University has released its academic honor rolls for the spring 2026 semester.    Students who received a grade point average of 3.5 or better during the spring semester can now find their honor roll information posted online.   The President’s List, for students with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, […]

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SIU CESL students connect with community through volunteerism

by Pete Rosenbery CARBONDALE, Ill. — Eighteen international students with Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Center for English as a Second Language engaged in an immersive language-and-culture experience combining volunteerism and community involvement with 12 area organizations.   During their three-week experiential learning course through SIU Carbondale’s Center for English as a Second Language program, 18

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Ranken Technical College invites high schoolers to ‘Restore a rusted tractor’ in new summer camp offering

PERRYVILLE, Mo. — In 1934, a John Deere tractor was put to work on the Eckenfels Farm in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. It stayed on that land for generations, a piece of working family history — until Ranken Technical College instructor Brien Dover purchased it in recent years. This July, that very same John Deere becomes a

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DHSS recognizes World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

JEFFERSON CITY – June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), an event that seeks to unite communities worldwide to raise awareness of elder abuse. In Missouri, the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) receives and investigates reports of abuse, neglect, bullying and exploitation of some of the state’s most vulnerable individuals –

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Yucca: Overlooked star of early summer

COLUMBIA, Mo.—Those towering flower stalks covered with white, bell-shaped blossoms that appear in early June belong to yucca, a plant with a somewhat unfortunate name.     Photo by H. Zell. Shared under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0).   Yuccas are resilient and striking additions to water-wise landscapes, said University of Missouri Extension

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Union leaders convicted of racketeering, fraud, and embezzlement of union dues

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday a federal jury convicted a North Carolina couple, a Missouri man, and an Ohio man in relation to a scheme involving theft of union-member dues through the award of no-show jobs, lavish travels and dinners charged to the union, unearned vacation payouts, and an unauthorized $7 million loan made to

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‘The REA is Coming’, how the Rural Electrification Act changed rural America.

STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Museum Learning Center will welcome Jim McCarty to its speaker series this Wednesday at 6:30 at the Orris Theater in Ste. Genevieve. The topic will be how the Rural Electrification Act Changed Rural America.   The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 was a landmark New Deal law that provided

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