JEFFERSON CITY – For more than two decades, the readers of Rural Missouri have been sharing their favorite places in the Show-Me State with the editors of the magazine. Thousands of entries in the annual Best of Rural Missouri Readers’ Choice Awards helped the staff highlight the best places to eat, shop, stay and relax. Winners in the 20th […]
Contest reveals Rural Missouri reader favorites
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JEFFERSON CITY – The following is a joint statement by Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, Missouri Pork Association, Missouri Soybean Association and Missouri Corn Growers Association: “We are grateful for today’s unanimous Missouri Supreme Court ruling affirming the constitutionality of SB 391 and HB 271. “This ruling ends decades of legal uncertainty
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JEFFERSON CITY — Legislation to ensure fair competition for female student athletes sponsored by State Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, R-Scott City, has received initial approval in Missouri’s upper legislative chamber. Senate Bill 39, which was perfected by the Missouri Senate following an overnight filibuster, would prohibit a transgender female student athlete born as a biological male
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JEFFERSON CITY – On March 16, 2023, members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested the following individuals after a special investigation by criminal investigators within its Division of Drug and Crime Control: Jeffery L. Burkett, 46, of Des Arc, Mo, has been charged with the following:• Participating knowingly in criminal street gang activities (Class
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ST. LOUIS – Wearing an approved motorcycle helmet has shown to be effective safety equipment to prevent brain injuries and deaths for riders. In 2019 when the Missouri all-rider motorcycle helmet law was in effect only 10 percent of motorcyclist fatalities were not wearing a helmet. This increased to 52 percent in 2021 and 53
March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In an effort to protect the people of the City of St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey yesterday filed his amended petition in quo warranto against Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner after additional evidence has come to light. Over the past three weeks, his office has interviewed multiple witnesses who had the courage
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has filed proposed rule amendments to adopt total phosphorus discharge reductions, allow for discharge of high-quality water into drinking water reservoirs to support water resource needs, and to align rules pertaining to losing streams. The public comment period is April 3, 2023, through May 15, 2023,
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KANSAS CITY, MO – Attorneys for the family of Tyrea M. Pryor, the 39-year-old black man shot and killed by Independence Police Department (IPD) officers Jamie Welsh and Hunter Soule in Jackson County, MO, are asking the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate why officers gunned down Pryor while he was trapped in a wrecked
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ST. LOUIS – Thank you Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve Military Personnel as well as Veterans for serving our country. Military personnel can experience a brain injury from combat connected events or civilian life activities such as a stroke, fall, car crash, or other incident. Combat connected activities, such as blast exposures may put them
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – In an effort to protect children and enforce the laws as written, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced today that his office is issuing an emergency regulation clarifying that, because gender transition interventions are experimental, they are covered by existing Missouri law governing unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable business practices, including in administering healthcare
