Regional News

WASHINGTON – At the weekly Republican leadership press conference Tuesday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) underscored the harmful impact the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate will have on U.S. employers, adding to the labor force and supply chain challenges that are already roiling the economy. Blunt has been vaccinated and  repeatedly  encouraged those who are eligible […]

CAPE GIRARDEAU — United Way of Southeast Missouri is asking the public to complete a brief survey that will help guide future initiatives and funding. The survey can be completed online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B7RS2F6 or by visiting the organization’s website: www.unitedwayofsemo.org. Printed copies of a condensed survey can be picked up in the United Way office

JEFFERSON CITY –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tuesday released delayed proposed biofuel blending volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The agency proposed biofuel blending requirements, allowing for 15 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol for 2022. The proposed volumes also include 12.5 billion gallons of conventional biofuels for 2020, typically comprised of corn-based ethanol.

JEFFERSON CITY – Governor Mike Parson has ordered U.S. and Missouri flags be flown at half-staff at all government buildings in Washington County, the Firefighter Memorial of Missouri in Kingdom City, and fire houses statewide today, Wednesday, December 8, 2021, from sunrise to sunset in honor of Belgrade Firefighter James Dale Jenkins.  “We are saddened to

JEFFERSON CITY – Following the Cole County Circuit Court’s decision in Robinson v. Missouri Dept. of Health and Senior Services, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this morning sent a letter to local public health agencies and school districts informing them of the decision and requiring them to stop enforcing any mask mandates, quarantine orders, or any

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s Securities Division and Republic, Missouri resident, Theodore Jay Eddings, recently entered into a consent order to settle allegations against Eddings by the Division involving investor fraud.  Between April 2017 and October 2018, Eddings raised at least $50,500 for two entities he claimed to own and operate. Eddings

JEFFERSON CITY — Have you and your family members finished their wish list for the holiday? Is safe, crash free travel on those lists? If not, please add it! Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers wish everyone a merry and safe Christmas. One way for it to be merry is for everyone to arrive at their

JEFFERSON CITY (Dec. 7, 2021) – NFIB State Director Brad Jones released the following statement today in response to the American Tort Reform Foundation’s annual list of “Judicial Hellholes,” which ranked the City of St. Louis No. 7. In its criticism of the St. Louis courts, the foundation cited some judges’ “history of ignoring both state law and U.S. Supreme Court