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KANSAS CITY, Mo.— This Thanksgiving holiday, local law enforcement is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Region 7 on a high-visibility Click It or Ticket seat belt awareness campaign. Over the entire Thanksgiving holiday weekend (Wednesday, November 22, through the early morning hours on Monday, November 27), your law […]

By Jackie Dover There are many misconceptions about Hospice; what it does and whom it is for. Some people see hospice as what someone does when they have given up on life or what you do at the last minute as someone is dying. Hospice care is an underutilized program that is paid for by

MILWAUKEE – The USDA Forest Service Eastern Region is requesting applications for the 2024 Cohesive Fire Strategy grant program. These competitive grants support local wildfire management initiatives on non-federal land in the 20 Northeast and Midwest states. Over the past six years, the region has distributed nearly $26 million through this grant program. The funding

WASHINGTON – SBA Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden’s Cabinet for America’s 33 million small businesses, is encouraging the nation to shop, dine, and entertain at local small businesses on November 25 in celebration of Small Business Saturday® and throughout the holiday season. Small Business Saturday

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing that HSN Inc., of St. Petersburg, Florida, has agreed to pay a $16 million civil penalty. The settlement settlement agreement, which has been provisionally accepted by CPSC, resolves CPSC’s charges that HSN knowingly failed to immediately report to CPSC, as required by law, that its Joy

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine – What has become known as the country’s longest veterans’ parade – Wreaths Across America’s annual “Escort to Arlington” – kicks off on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. The official route, which can be viewed here, will travel down the East Coast, stopping at schools, memorials, and other locations along the way to spread the year-long mission

DALLAS, Tex.– $2.99 gasoline is making a comeback at tens of thousands of stations across the U.S., a huge treat for drivers this Halloween. The national average has plunged 38 cents over the last month, according to GasBuddy, the leading fuel savings platform saving North American drivers the most money on fuel. At $3.44 per gallon,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate has approved an amendment patterned after legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12) to protect veterans’ Second Amendment rights. Bost, the chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, introduced legislation earlier this year that would end the Department of Veterans Affairs’ practice of automatically submitting veterans’ names for background

CLEARWATER, Fla. — As the US Department of Labor’s National Disability Employment Awareness month comes to a close, large disparities still divide the workforce, excluding one of the greatest assets to American businesses, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).   According to recent statistics published by the US Department of Labor’s Office of Disability

LENEXA, Kan. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it has $3.5 million to fund six projects across Missouri that advance environmental justice as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The organizations, which EPA has selected through its Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement and Environmental Justice Government-to-Government programs, will use the