Regional News

PARK HILLS – The Mineral Area College Board of Trustees will meet Thursday in the VanHerck Board Room.   The tentative agenda for the meeting:   MAC AGENDA

ST. LOUIS – To start a year of exciting and unprecedented horizons following the passage of Amendment 3, which enshrined abortion access and the broad right to reproductive freedom in Missouri’s Constitution, Abortion Action Missouri introduces new board leadership: Karissa Anderson-Whitted as AAM Board President and Hon. Alisha Sonnier as AAM Board Vice President. Karissa

KANSAS CITY – Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.2 percent in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.   The December advance was led by a 0.1-percent rise in the all items less food and energy index, with owners’ equivalent

ST. LOUIS – The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control announces the arrest of 31-year-old Michael A. Driemeier of Bismarck, MO.   Driemeier was arrested on January 9, 2025, for two counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of promoting child pornography, and one count of failing to register as

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man on Monday admitted staging a series of vehicle accidents and injuries to defraud insurance companies. Adrian Peebles, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud. Peebles admitted that from September of 2021 to January of 2023, he staged auto accidents,

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – A man from St. Louis County on Tuesday admitted using movie prop money to defraud at least 13 online sellers of vehicles and other property, costing them $229,200. Aaron Montgomery, 41, of Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri, pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud and four

CAPE GIRARDEAU – The 19th Annual Cape Girardeau Polar Plunge will take place on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. Brave men and women from around the area will don costumes and swimwear and take “polar” dips into the lake at Cape County Park North. Their Reason for Freezin’ is the athletes of Special Olympics Missouri (SOMO)! All

CAPE GIRARDEAU – The United Way of Southeast Missouri (UWSEMO) has created a Winter Recovery Fund in response to the widespread power outages that are the result of recent ice and snowstorms.   UWSEMO has created similar funds following the Perryville tornado in 2017 and the more recent Bollinger County tornado and flood in 2023,

PARK HILLS, MO  – Mineral Area College (MAC) has announce it has been designated an FOA Approved School by The Fiber Optic Association (FOA), a leading nonprofit organization setting industry standards for fiber optics training and certification. This designation positions MAC as one of only five FOA-approved schools in the state of Missouri, offering students exceptional educational

BISMARCK, Mo. — IKO, a global leader in the manufacturing and supply of residential shingles, commercial roofing, and waterproofing products, announced that it will open a new granule facility for its subsidiary Bismarck Granules in Bismarck, investing $120 million and creating more than 50 new jobs.   “We’re proud to see another leading manufacturer like IKO