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Missouri Congressman Mark Alford’s town hall tour touches down in Marshall
Western Missouri Congressman Mark Alford’s town hall tour continues across the Fourth Congressional District this week. During a stop in Marshall, he told Missourinet affiliate KMMO that most of his constituents want to feel secure. “They want border security, they want economic security, and they want security in their...
Yes, Nukes Travel on Missouri Highways and You Should Be Afraid
Ever learn something that you wish you didn't know? This is one of those things for me. I've discovered more facts than I wanted to know about how nuclear weapons really are transported on Missouri highways and there are lots of legitimate reasons to be very afraid. The National Nuclear...
First Case of Insect Transmitted Corn Stunt Disease Confirmed in Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri Extension specialists have confirmed the first case of corn stunt in Missouri. The disease, which is transmitted by an insect, was found in southwest Missouri. Corn leafhopper is the insect capable of infecting corn with three pathogens that results in corn stunt disease....
MO Governor to host Dolly Parton
Missouri Governor Mike Parson and First Lady Teresa Parson, in partnership with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, will host an event with Dolly Parton and her Imagination Library team on Tuesday, August 27th at 11 a.m. in Kansas City. The statewide expansion of Dolly’s Imagination Library was made possible through legislation signed into law by the governor in 2022. Governor Parson and state legislators also fully funded the program by approving $11 million in DESE’s Fiscal Year 2024 and 2025 budgets for the distribution of books.
Time for drivers to slow down
Crosswalk striping on Hudson Street at Mercy Aurora Hospital’s employee entrance was finished on Aug. 20. Aurora City Council members heard from concerned Mercy employees and hospital board members earlier this year regarding the safety of the crosswalk used by most Mercy employees and staff. You need to be...
MVHS Vocal Motion looking forward to Infamous season
Mt. Vernon students return to school this week and so begins all the classes and extracurricular activities. Among those, Mt. Vernon Vocal Motion Show Choir who held their choreography camp from Aug. 5-8. This year’s show titled “Infamous” is the re-telling of the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
City workers gift vigilant boy toy truck
Mt. Vernon power employees show appreciation for boy’s concern. When Bailey McCann, the supervisor of the Mt. Vernon Electric Department, and Jake Garretson, a lineman in the department, were replacing transformers near the intersection of Sloan and Hickory, they attracted the attention of a five-year-old boy named Atticus Biellier.
MSSU’s Brian Allen Named Associate Head Coach of Lions Track & Field
JOPLIN, MO — Missouri Southern throw coach and recruiting coordinator, Brian Allen, will have a new role for the Lions in 2024. Bryan Schiding, director of Southern’s track and field programs, announced the promotion of Allen to associate head track and field coach. Allen will stay in his current role, but will have bigger leadership […]
2024 High School Football Previews: Mt. Vernon Mountaineers
MT. VERNON, MO – Resilience. That has been the word to describe the Tom Cox era for almost the last two decades. The long term head coach is entering his seventeenth season at the helm for the Mountaineers, coming off a 10-2 record last year, and a District Championship runner-up.
Ex-Barry County sheriff says death penalty justified for Rowan Ford’s killer
BARRY COUNTY, Mo. – Throughout his law enforcement career, former Barry County Sheriff Mick Epperly says there’s only one case that stands apart from the others. The 2007 kidnapping and murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford. The state announced that Rowan’s killer, Christopher Collings, will face the death penalty on December 3, 2024. “It’s one of […]
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