STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve Area Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday that is February 3rd membership meeting has been postponed to March 3. The meeting will be held at noon.
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STE. GENEVIEVE — The Ste. Genevieve Board of Aldermen met last night and approved the purchase of a surveillance camera system for the police department, the hiring a firm to conduct a 15-year street preventive maintenance program, an agreement for 911 dispatching services and a street closure for a bicycle race. The action came
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On January 24, 2022, Congressman Jason Smith joined House Veterans Affairs Committee Ranking Member Mike Bost (IL-12) and 111 of his House Republican colleagues in writing the Director of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) demanding the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis fully reopen their offices. The NPRC
STE. GENEVIEVE — After weeks of work to build the most efficient model bridges, Ste. Genevieve High School SkillsUSA students put their bridges to the test on Dec. 9, 2021, at the MoDOT’s 18th Annual Bridge Building Competition. The SGHS team earned fourth place out of 26 schools, and junior Braden Huck’s bridge earned eighth
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JEFFERSON CITY — One of the most important tasks before the General Assembly this session is to draw our state’s new congressional districts to correspond with the data from the 2020 Census. Congressional districts contain approximately 700,000 people, must adhere to the Voting Rights Act and are intended to be as contiguous and compact as
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CHESTER — Randolph County Coroner Carlos J. Barbour has announced his office and the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of 36-year-old Joseph A. Specogni of Sparta. Barbour says Specogni was pronounced at his residence at 7:01 p.m. Tuesday, January 25. The cause of death is pending further investigation, however, no foul play
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PERRYVILLE — A Perry County Sheriff’s Deputy was hurt late Wednesday night while attempting to deploy a spike strip on I-55 to halt a fleeing suspect. Perry County Sheriff Gary Schaaf says the deputy suffered a hand injury when the cord attached to the spike strip became wrapped around his hand as a passing
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JEFFERSON CITY –Corn farmers, industry representatives, and guests from across the state gathered in Jefferson City, Mo., Wednesday for the Missouri Corn Growers Association (MCGA) annual meeting and legislative day. The morning kicked off at the Capitol Plaza Hotel with MCGA’s annual meeting, where Gov. Mike Parson provided the keynote address. Members also reviewed
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-MO) and Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA) released the following statement after they introduced the Put Trafficking Victims First Act, legislation that encourages state and federal agencies, law enforcement, and prosecutors across the country to implement victim-centered approaches to investigating and preventing human trafficking. “Human trafficking affects communities across
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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Police (ISP) has unveiled an interactive Statewide Expressway Shooting (SES) dashboard which contains current and historical data regarding reported expressway shooting incidents on all expressways in Illinois. The ISP created this tool to provide not only data but also as context to expressway shootings reported in Illinois. One of the
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