Stories from Saturday, March 24, 2018

JEFFERSON CITY – Wearing a seat belt is your best defense in a traffic crash. Give yourself a chance to live. Always buckle up, everyone, every trip, every time. The Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety wants to remind teens how dangerous a car ride can be if they don’t take wearing their safety belt seriously. Law enforcement will be out in full force March 15 -31 to crack down on unbelted teen drivers and save lives...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo — Missouri State Treasurer Eric Schmitt was joined by business and finance leaders today in Springfield to launch Missouri FIRST (Financing Investment in our Rural, Small Business and Technology communities), a new initiative aimed at helping small businesses and agricultural operations grow and expand...

JONESBORO – As the success of the College of Business Women’s Business Leadership Center at Arkansas State University continues to accelerate, the annual conference is also growing each year. The fourth Women’s Business Leadership Conference will take place Thursday, March 29, in Centennial Hall at the Carl R. Reng Student Union, third floor...

(JEFFERSON CITY, MO) -- Community Action Agencies across Missouri are hosting senators, representatives, and other public officials for agency and program tours to raise awareness of the importance of Community Action, showcasing the positive impact Community Action has on low-income Missourians, families, and communities as a whole. ...

COLUMBIA - Columbia-based Primaris Holdings Inc. has received a contract to provide oversight and review of managed Medicaid health plans for more than a half million Missourians. The one-year, half-million dollar contract with the Missouri Department of Social Services/MO HealthNet Division, is renewable for four additional one-year terms. ...

JEFFERSON CITY---The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold local public hearings in Sikeston and Jackson, Missouri on March 26, 2018 in a natural gas rate case filed by Liberty Utilities (Midstates Natural Gas) Corp. d/b/a Liberty Utilities. The local public hearing...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – It is estimated that more than 700 plant species growing in North America can have harmful effects on humans, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Many plant poisonings occur when curious children are attracted to colorful berries and blooms on plants within their reach. Their low body weight makes plant toxicity higher in children than adults, said MU Extension safety and health specialist Karen Funkenbusch...

Plant native trees and practice proper tree care.

Poor turkey production in recent years has affected turkey numbers.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper fancies itself as the liberal beacon in a fairly conservative state. Never do its editors go off the liberal reservation and champion something that conservatives could embrace. But the St. Louis newspaper meandered too far into liberal territory with its take on the prison population in Missouri. Missouri's prison system includes 21 facilities housing 36,000 prisoners. That calculates to an over-capacity of 105 percent.