Tag: Missouri

A reshuffling at other Russel Stover Candies facilities across the Midwest will mean more jobs for Iola’s production plant. The Kansas City-based company announced Tuesday it was closing several of its low-traffic stores across the…

Winning passage of laws legalizing marijuana use in Missouri and Illinois might have been the easy part. For businesses involved in growing and dispensing marijuana, sales are booming but they have yet to figure out…

A proposal in the Illinois Legislature to make Daylight Saving Time permanent would mean residents there wouldn’t change their clocks twice a year. The Legislature would trade elimination of this minor inconvenience for a world…

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (AP) — A man stole a pickup truck with a sleeping passenger and a goat inside it and drove it all the way from Missouri to Oklahoma before releasing the terrified victim…

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — At least nine people have died in weather-related crashes across the Midwest amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close and snarled…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dozens of sinkholes, some up to 12 feet deep, are dotting the landscape in the small southeastern Missouri city of Caruthersville, forcing road detours, swallowing sections of people’s yards and leaving…

A roving work of art has sparked a lot of thought about the nature of walls this year, especially among those who live near the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. ?Walking Wall?…

Prayer is a good thing. It shadowed America’s Founders and still today underpins the very American tradition of Thanksgiving. Moreover, character education should be a part of every youth athletic program in the country. But…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Meteorite hunters are scouring farm fields for remnants of a basketball-size hunk of rock that blazed across the sky in the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that several…

In June of 2018, 57% of Oklahoma voters cast a vote in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. A few months later in Missouri, 66% of voters showed their support. As our neighboring states offer residents…