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Bring in the New Year Safely!

JEFFERSON CITY — Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, encourages everyone to make good decisions regarding their New Year’s celebration. No one wants to start 2023 with a traffic crash or DWI arrest. During the 2022 New Year’s period, one person was killed and 331 injured in 1,045 traffic crashes

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Coulterville man will become Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper Dec. 22

JEFFERSON CITY — A Coulterville, Ill. man is one of 19 new troopers to graduate from the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy.   Jordan A. Koester’s initial assignment will be to Troop F, Zone 15, Callaway County, Mo.   He is scheduled to graduate from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy on Thursday, December

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Final NFIB Optimism Index of the Year: Slight Improvement, but inflation remains a challenge

JEFFERSON CITY – Inflation remains the top business problem for small business owners, with 32 percent of owners reporting it as their single most important problem in operating their business, five points lower than July’s highest reading since the fourth quarter of 1979. The Small Business Optimism Index rose 0.6 points in November to 91.9.

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GasBuddy study reveals U.S. Cities with the ‘Scroogiest’ holiday drivers

BOSTON, Mass. — The holiday season is known for being merry and bright, but hectic schedules, last-minute shopping and travel both near and far can translate to the roads in the form of aggressive driving. A new survey from GasBuddy, a PDI company and the leading fuel savings platform providing the most ways and places

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Lauryn Robnett and Judson Mayfield Named Missouri Farm Bureau Ambassadors

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A panel of judges selected Lauryn Robnett, of Laddonia, and Judson Mayfield, of Marble Hill, as 2023 Missouri Farm Bureau (MOFB) Ambassadors during the organization’s 108th annual meeting on December 4 at the Lake of the Ozarks.   The MOFB Ambassador Program selects a male and female student 17-to-22 years of

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Missouri man pleads guilty to federal hate crime and arson charges for burning down Islamic Center

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that a Missouri man pled guilty to hate crime and arson violations for burning down the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center (the Center) in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.   According to court documents, on April 24, 2020, which was the first morning of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at

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Ste. Genevieve COVID-19 level rises to high community level, Perry County is low

JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reports 7,144  new cases of COVID-19 in Missouri as of Tuesday. That’s 42 more, or a 0.6 percent increase from the previous week’s 7,102 new cases of COVID 19.   Locally:   There were 11 new cases of COVID-19 in Ste. Genevieve County compared

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