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EPA announces Missouri selectees to receive Nearly $700K in grants to help businesses prevent pollution

LENEXA, KAN. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University have been selected to collectively receive nearly $700,000 in grants to provide technical assistance to businesses to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices in local communities. Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri […]

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DMU joins effort to investigate drug shortages in the U.S. and Canada

WEST DES MOINES, IA –  Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Toronto and the University of California – San Diego, has shared new findings from a multinational study on drug shortages in the U.S. and Canada. Published in the Journal of the American Medical

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American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 133, Perryville Children and Youth Committee donate patriotic books and ‘I Pledge Allegiance’ bookmarks to local schools

PERRYVILLE – The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 133, Children and Youth Co-chairs, Nancy Wilfong and Anna Reece, along with ALA President, Carol Taylor have been visiting local elementary schools in Perry County to donate Patriotic Books and “I Pledge Allegiance” bookmarks to the school libraries to have as resources for the students. Some funds were

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48 hours of wildfire response

ROLLA, Mo., —It has been a busy couple days for firefighting resources across Missouri, especially on Mark Twain National Forest. Engines, firefighters, dozer operators, and many more USDA Forest Service resources from the Forest have dropped other projects to respond to wildfires that have popped up in areas across the Forest’s 1.5 million acres. In fact,

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SIU farms coral to help imperiled ecosystems survive, explore aquaculture

by Tim Crosby CARBONDALE, Ill. – Much of the Earth’s freshwater eventually joins with massive, salty oceans where it can deeply impact life in those marine systems. Amid farm fields hundreds of miles away, researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are growing coral, a beautiful and sensitive lifeform sitting in the nexus of these systems

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Recovery plan available for four imperiled freshwater mussels

BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota  – They have quirky names and are often mistaken for stones, but freshwater mussels are very much alive and perform critical ecological functions in rivers and streams. We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have published a recovery plan to save four imperiled mussels protected under the Endangered Species Act: the rayed

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MSHP report

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released its latest report of arrests. Arrested was: 52-year-old Thomas E. Shearin of Ste. Genevieve at 8:35 a.m. Thursday in Ste. Genevieve County on a warrant out of Richmond Heights for improper lane use. He was being held in the Jefferson County pending the post of

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Lucy Sears wins Voice of Democracy oral essay contest

STE. GENEVIEVE – A senior at Ste. Genevieve High School has won first place in the VFW Post 2210 and its Auxiliary Voice of Democracy Oral Essay contest. Lucy Sears with Lois Flieg, VFW Auxiliary Youth Activities and Scholarship Chairperson. Lucy Sears essay responded to the contest theme: “Is America Today Our Forefathers’ Vision?” Sears

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