A blacklisted Missouri lawmaker has been blocked from running for governor as a Democrat. The Missouri Democratic Party on Tuesday refused to let state Rep. Sarah Unsicker file for office on that …
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By SUMMER BALLENTINE
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2/27/24
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School bus service has been snarled in St. Louis for two days because of a work stoppage that's a show of support for a Black mechanic who says he found a noose at his workstation. The action began …
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By JIM SALTER
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2/27/24
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Christopher R. Taylor, 43, Pottersville, has pleaded guilty to child endangerment without sexual conduct, and handed a seven-year sentence with five years of supervised probation.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/27/24
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A Yellville, Ark., resident has been sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole related to a federal conviction of communicating through the internet to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, after an investigation that included Mtn. Home and Baxter County, Ark., law enforcement.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/27/24
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A non-first-responder volunteer with the Mtn. View Fire Department has been charged with felony attempted enticement of a child after allegedly arranging to meet who he believed was an 11-year-old girl at the Mtn. View Fire Department for sex.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/27/24
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On behalf of the Health Resources Services Administration’s Delta Regional Authority (DRA), officials with the National Rural Health Resource Center have announced Texas County Memorial Hospital in Houston has been chosen to participate in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development Program.
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2/27/24
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St, Louis Post-Dispatch. February 23, 2024.
Editorial: Now the right to get pregnant is under attack, too. Missourians can protect it.
With a single court ruling in Alabama, America’s …
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By The Associated Press
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2/27/24
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Court documents say the man accused of firing the first shots at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally told authorities he felt threatened, while a second man said he pulled the trigger because …
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER
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2/27/24
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The West Plains R-7 Board of Education will meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the West Plains High School library, following a brief closed session set to begin at 5 to discuss legal, real estate, personnel and student matters.
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2/26/24
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Area students eligible for the TJ Swift House A.S.C.E.N.D. Program at Missouri State University-West Plains will not have to pay the program fee for the next two academic years.
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2/26/24
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The planning committee for the Buck Nelson Festival, to be held the weekend of April 5 through 8 in Mtn. View, coinciding with the area's total solar eclipse, has finalized events and provided a schedule of things to do and see for all ages and interests.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/26/24
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The city of Willow Springs has removed its dangerous-building designation from the McClellan Building at the corner of 104 E. Main St., first put into place in December 2022 on the recommendation of John Oke-Thomas of Oke-Thomas Associates, an architectural and construction firm headquartered in Springfield.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/26/24
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Today in History
Today is Monday, March 4, the 64th day of 2024. There are 302 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was …
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By The Associated Press
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2/26/24
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The Arkansas primary election is Tuesday, March 5.
Poll close: 8:30 EST/ 7:30 CST
First results expected: …
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2/26/24
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Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select Missouri stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of Missouri and the rest of the world, …
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2/23/24
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Officials with the Missouri Public Service Commission, the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) and the telecommunications industry remind phone customers to continue preparing for a new area code, 235, to be used in the current 573 area code region.
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2/23/24
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Beginning Monday, South U.S. 63 in Howell and Oregon Counties will be reduced to one lane with an 11-foot width restriction as construction crews perform pavement repairs, announce officials with the Missouri Department of Transportation.
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2/23/24
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SEYMOUR —Almost 35 years ago, Kelle Ann Workman, 24, of rural Douglas County, went missing from the Pleasant Ridge Church and was found dead about a week later in Christian County, her body disposed of in a ravine about 16 miles away.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/23/24
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For the third time in two months, and the second time this month, a West Plains man has been charged with felonies after a search warrant for drugs was served Thursday at a home on the 300 block of Maple Street.
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BY KIMBERLY LANGSTON,
KIMBERLYL@WPDAILYQUILL.NET
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2/23/24
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EDITORS:
President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are looking to all but clinch their party’s nominations as both are heavily favored in each of the 15 states and one territory …
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2/23/24
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