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GasBuddy: Fuel prices trending down for holiday; rest of year looks promising
A national firm says gasoline prices will continue to fall. Labor Day is Monday. The post GasBuddy: Fuel prices trending down for holiday; rest of year looks promising appeared first on Houston Herald.
This Missouri Place Has the Harshest Garage Sale Laws in America
What's the harm in having a garage sale? For one Missouri place, plenty is the answer as this one city has some of the harshest garage sale laws in America. I will confess that I am not a fan of garage sales. The very few I've hosted in my life in Missouri there were people knocking on my garage door at 5:50am wondering why I hadn't opened for business yet. Shudder. I'm not judging. It's a way to save money and get stuff you need for your family. I get it. I'm just not a fan of the experience.
'We transport the world's most precious cargo': Parkway schools install bus extension arms
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — The Parkway School District is addressing reckless driving, as motorists continue to drive around school buses during stops. Startling video from the district shows a speeding car, hopping a curb, and veering back on the road. All while blatantly ignoring a bus stop sign. The growing...
Rural Missouri has high smoking rates, and the health problems that follow. That’s changing in some communities
Families flock to McDonald County in southwest Missouri each summer to float down the Elk River, visit the caves where Jesse James took refuge and stay in a rustic cabin. The county is a vestige of old, wild Missouri charm — and a place where restaurants and bars still ask, “Smoking or non?” People in […] The post Rural Missouri has high smoking rates, and the health problems that follow. That’s changing in some communities appeared first on The Beacon.
Voters will decide minimum wage ballot measures in several states
Grace McGovern, a 24-year-old bartender and server at a downtown Boston brewery, recalls one recent customer vividly. He was very rude. It was a slow night, and she only had one table, a large group led by a man who “kept touching my lower back and my leg and making jokes,” she told Stateline. It […]
Drugmakers sue to block Missouri law on federal prescription discounts
Three major pharmaceutical companies and their national lobbying organization are suing Missouri to block enforcement of a new state law requiring them to give medical providers unlimited access to discounted drugs for their pharmacies. In four federal lawsuits filed over the past month, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Abbvie and PhRMA, the lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry, […]
Tuesday, August 27 forecast: Summer strikes back
Yesterday was a hot day. At 95°, it was our hottest day since early August. Today will also be hot and humid with the most intense heat today located across Central Missouri and points northeastward. Rain chances today will be tricky to determine. There is some guidance that suggests a few spotty showers in Southern […]
Missouri is still trying to execute Marcellus Williams
Marcellus Williams remains on death row in Missouri after 20 years, despite evidence that he is innocent in the 1998 murder of a St. Louis woman. But a plea deal that would have saved him from the death penalty, in exchange for life in prison, was blocked by the Missouri Supreme Court.
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