Attorney General Bailey Secures Major Victory For Missouri Landowners As Feds Terminate Grain Belt Express Loan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) announcement that it has officially terminated the Biden-era conditional loan guarantee for the Grain Belt …

US measles cases surpass 2019 count, while Missouri is latest state with an outbreak

FILE – A health worker talks to people before administering measles tests outside Seminole Hospital District, Feb. 21, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) By Devi Shastri ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. is having its worst year for …

KCPD: Body found, pulled from banks of Missouri River

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sad discovery along Interstate 435 Tuesday afternoon around 1:30. Police were called to a body seen lying along the banks of the Missouri River on Kansas City’s east side July 22. The passenger of a semi truck was high enough to …

Northeast Missouri man dies after motorcycle crash in Marion County

HANNIBAL, Mo. — A northeast Missouri man is dead following a motorcycle crash in Marion County. A report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol states the fatal wreck happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday on Warren Barrett Drive at Wardlaw Street in …

Report shows high vacancies in medical imaging jobs in Missouri

Hospital employee vacancies are down in the state, but turnover has stayed steady, according to an annual workforce report from the Missouri Hospital Association. The vacancy rate last year was 9.7%, down 4% from 2023, but employee turnover stayed the same …

Letter: Missouri leaders are choosing nuclear industry over constituents

Any careful reading of “Kehoe, others voice urgent support for new nuclear power in Missouri" (July 19) should cause genuine concern. Those of us for whom the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl disasters are not merely historical events should be very …

Missouri Department of Conservation proposes permit fee hikes for 2026

The Missouri Department of Conservation is proposing a comprehensive adjustment to hunting, fishing, and trapping permit fees beginning in 2026, aimed at addressing rising operational costs and aligning certain nonresident fees with those in neighboring …

Perry Co. burglary suspect arrested in Missouri

How J.J. O'Neal has grown since Missouri State football teammate's death

FRISCO, Texas — There's never a shortage of confidence in J.J. O'Neal's voice when he starts talking. It's the mindset and swagger that's led him from being a walk-on on the Missouri State football team, to earning a scholarship, to …

Robots Deployed to Find Invasive Pears in Missouri

I always thought pear trees were a good thing. I was wrong. There are many invasive pear trees that are trying to wreck Missouri's ecosystem, but experts in the state have called in the robots to help. This interesting approach to invasive pear trees …