Stories from Saturday, March 3, 2018

Boonville, MO -- Missouri Life magazine announces two new routes for 2018 for its Big BAM (Bicycle Across Missouri) tours. Missouri’s only cross-state bicycle tour, Big BAM has been in north Missouri in the past three years and offered only one ride per year...

On an early September morning last year, a Springfield, Mo. mom walked into her daughter’s bedroom and experienced a tragedy no parent should ever have to face. Following a four-year battle with opioid addiction, her 20-year old daughter, a former high school cheerleader, was face-down in her bed after suffering a fatal heroin overdose...

CHARLESTON, Mo.  Mavis Nadine Almon, 85, died March 3, 2018, at the East Prairie Nursing Center.

I wrote recently concerning the phenomenon of fake news that has become a daily part of current society. And to be sure, if you read or listen to virtually anything pertaining to politics these days, beware that some if not all of what you read may have a fake stink about it. We can assume with some accuracy that the much ballyhooed Russian election meddling was real and involved reporting fake news to throw a monkey wrench into our electoral system. But there are countless other examples of fake news that are around us daily. Inaccurate reporting in the past was simply chalked up to sloppy journalists. And the news outlet would print or report a retraction to correct the record. But today's fake news industry is a whole different matter. It is not about inaccurate reporting but intentional misleading and downright phony news portrayed as fact.