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Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s report

STE. GENEVIEVE — The Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff’s Office has released its report of arrests and reported incidents for the week ending Friday, January 7, 2022.   Arrested Persons: 3 (The individuals listed below have been formally charged all other individuals cannot be listed at this time) Alarm Activation: 2 Animal Control: 5 Assault: Assist […]

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Two River Region residents are named to SNHU President’s List

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Two Southern New Hampshire University students from the River Region have been named to the Fall 2021 President’s List. Tiffany Kasten of Perryville, Mo. and Lecia Ross of Coulterville, Ill. are both full-time undergraduate students who earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.7 or above  to be named to the President’s

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Attorney General Schmitt recaps successful 2021

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has released his “AGO in Review,” a recap of the work that the Attorney General’s Office completed throughout 2021. “In 2021, the Attorney General’s Office worked tirelessly to push back on extraordinary government overreach, fight violent crime, work to clear the backlog of untested sexual assault kits, and

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Blunt raises concerns over administration’s failure to utilize billions of taxpayer dollars to keep schools open

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, and Richard Burr (N.C.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, sent a letter calling on U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to provide

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Blunt: Democrats using fake hysteria to break the Senate, federalize elections

WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, continued pushing back on Democrats’ election takeover. Blunt highlighted how Democrats have, from one election cycle to the next, reinvented their justification for federalizing elections, this time relying

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Chester Chamber of Commerce cancels board meeting due to COVID

CHESTER — The Chester Chamber of Commerce has announced the board meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 18th has been cancelled due to the increase in COVID related illnesses in the area. The next event on the schedule is February 15th for the lunch/meeting program.  Jeremy Walker is slated to speak at that event.  “We will

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FEMA approves disaster declaration for Missouri

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, the Federal Disaster Declaration requested by Governor Mike Parson, Congressman Smith and Missouri’s U.S. Congressional delegation was approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for local Missouri communities heavily impacted by the severe storms and deadly tornadoes that swept across the state on the evening of December

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