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Former coach and Missouri middle school teacher sentenced for coercing, enticing, and sexually abusing a minor child
Newstalk KZRG - Missouri
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July 16, 2025
TULSA, Okla. – A former coach and middle school teacher was sentenced today for six counts related to child exploitation and sexual abuse of a minor child, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill sentenced Ronald...
Patrick and Brittany Mahomes get vacation reality check as Kansas City Chiefs star tries to relax before new NFL season
The U.S. Sun
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July 16, 2025
REALITY should be sinking in for Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany after the NFL couple's latest vacation. The Kansas City Chiefs' star quarterback had been relaxing weeks before preparation for the new NFL season. 3 Kansas City Chiefs star...
Amy Sue (Wiseman) Holaday, Marthasville, Missouri
The Leader-Union - Illinois
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July 15, 2025
Amy Sue (Wiseman) Holaday of Marthasville, Missouri, formerly of Vandalia, passed away Sunday, July 13, 2025 at her home surrounded by her family. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, July 19, 2025 at the First United Methodist Church in...
Meet the Riffles: A Missouri family tells the story of a multi-generational farm
Farm Talk - Kansas
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Richard and Caroline Riffle of Garden City, Missouri. Following is the first installment of a concept Farm Talk is launching called "Pure Talk." The goal is to bring you agricultural stories told directly from the people living them. In their own...
Travel time after Dobbs spiked in states that curbed abortion access, with Az seeing surge from Texas
Tucson Sentinel - Arizona
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July 15, 2025
In 14 states that made abortion all but impossible to obtain after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end a pregnancy had to drive four times further on average – 11.3 hours, up from 2.8 hours. “People are spending a lot of...
2nd Most Boring City in U.S. Neighbors Missouri
KICK AM 1530 - Illinois
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July 15, 2025
If you seek excitement in your life, there's a city that's just beyond the Missouri state line that doesn't offer much of it. As a matter of record, it was just named the 2nd most boring city in America and you have been warned. A couple things to...
Missouri State Board of Education members debate limited yet ‘influential’ role
The Sedalia Democrat - Missouri
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By Annelise Hanshaw Missouri Independent New members of the Missouri State Board of Education discovered their powers to direct schools are more limited than they expected during a retreat last week. The board spent Wednesday and Thursday talking...
Missouri State Lady Bears set for inaugural CUSA basketball season
Springfield Standard - Missouri
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July 14, 2025
Conference USA has released the 2025-26 women's basketball conference schedule, marking Missouri State University's Lady Bears' first season in the league. The team will participate in an 18-game slate as part of the league's expansion to 12...
Travel time after Dobbs spiked in states that curbed abortion access, with Arizona seeing surge from Texas
Cronkite News - Arizona
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July 14, 2025
Abortion rights activists and opponents face off at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024. (File photo by Morgan Kubasko/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – In 14 states that made abortion all but impossible to obtain after the Supreme Court overturned...
Lebanon, Mo., voters to decide on doubling the city’s lodging tax in August
KY3 - Missouri
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July 15, 2025
LEBANON, Mo. (KY3) - With the August 5 special election in Missouri on the horizon, one city in Missouri is bringing back a topic last voted on in 1999. That year, Lebanon city leaders and voters put a 2.5% lodging tax into effect on hotels,...
St Louis Airport has lines stretching out to FREEWAY after Seventh Day Adventist event caused travel chaos
Daily Mail
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July 15, 2025
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER Published: 08:27 EDT, 15 July 2025 | Updated: 09:58 EDT, 15 July 2025 A major US airport was hit by lines of travelers stretching back to a nearby freeway after a large Christian conference caused a...
Think Twice Before Touching This Common Missouri Plant
KHMO 1070 AM - Illinois
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July 14, 2025
Here’s another reason you won’t catch me hiking anytime soon, and it has everything to do with not knowing which plants are safe and which ones you need to run away from. I’m not really an outdoorsy person. I mean, I like being outside, hanging...
Paparazzi captures Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany returning from Mexico days before Chiefs' training camp kicks off
Sportskeeda
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July 16, 2025
With the Kansas City Chiefs' training camp scheduled to begin on July 22, Patrick Mahomes returned home to Missouri on Tuesday. The Chiefs quarterback was spotted by the paparazzi leaving Mexico with his wife and kids after enjoying a vacation in...
Swimming still not advised at Wakonda State Park following new water sample
WGEM - Illinois
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July 16, 2025
LA GRANGE, Mo. (WGEM) - Following a new water sample taken Monday by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, swimming is still not recommended at the Wakonda State Park beach. According to MoDNR, the sample contained a high level of E. coli....
RATSKIN'S RUMBLINGS: Time for reckoning
SW Iowa News Source
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A lot has been going on this past summer concerning conferences. And the talk of what’s yet to happen centers on what schools will belong to which conferences and why that is their best fit for reasons such as competitive balance and success,...
MO cattle producer: USDA doing what it can to keep New World screwworm out
Brownfield Ag News
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July 16, 2025
News MO cattle producer: USDA doing what it can to keep New World screwworm out The president of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association says cattle producers are keeping a close eye on what’s happening with New World screwworm in Mexico. “We’re a...
On the Trail Again
Nebraska Life
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Tonya Peck clutched her legs, writhing in pain and moaning on the side of the Cowboy Trail 20 miles west of Norfolk. As if the heat-induced leg cramps weren’t enough, she’d collapsed smack dab in a thicket of goathead stickers – and we were only...
Travel guide for the Omaha area: Friday, July 11
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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July 11, 2025
Travel guide for the Omaha area: Friday, July 11 THANKS, SEAN. YES. SO WE’RE GOING TO BREAK DOWN WHERE THAT CRASH IS AT. MARY REGLI WAS JUST AT. THAT’S GOING TO BE THE BIG IMPACT ON THE ROAD. ZOOMING IN ON THE MAP HERE, THIS PURPLE LINE THAT YOU...
Missouri embraces the American Beer Act
The Drinks Business
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July 11, 2025
Missouri has signed a law that will cut taxes on US beer in a bid to support the state’s brewing and farming sectors. This week, while at AB InBev’s St. Louis Brewery, Republican Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed the bill to slash taxes on...
Gov. Kehoe signs HB199, establishing special downtown entertainment district in St. Louis
KSDK - Missouri
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“This districts represents more than just buildings and venues," Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis CEO Michael McMillan said. "It is a purposeful investment in ST. LOUIS — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Thursday signed legislation creating a...