(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — Almost a decade after passing the century mark, a former University of Missouri professor says he does his share of fretting but that life has been… Read more »
Category: Missouri News
Prosecutions, fines increase in puppy mill cases
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A state law intended to crack down on Missouri’s worst puppy mills has increased the number of prosecutions and fines and led to the rescue of… Read more »
Holder offers reassurance to people of Ferguson
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — To reassure the people of Ferguson, Attorney General Eric Holder reached into his own past, recalling the times he had been stopped… Read more »
$90 million pet food factory opens in Joplin
(JOPLIN, Mo., AP) — A cat and dog food manufacturer has opened its first factory, a $90 million facility in Joplin. Heartland Pet Foods Manufacturing opened the 415,000-square-foot plant Wednesday… Read more »
Missouri medical school receives $2.4 million gift
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The University of Missouri School of Medicine has received a $2.4 million gift to create an endowed chair in oncology. The school announced in a news… Read more »
EPA launches criminal probe into Tyson discharge
(MONETT, Mo., AP) — Tyson Foods is the subject of a federal criminal investigation of its role in the discharge of a food supplement into a southwest Missouri town’s wastewater… Read more »
Columbia City Council OKs downtown student housing
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The Columbia City Council has approved a Texas-based housing developer’s proposal to build a downtown student apartment complex near the University of Missouri campus. The council… Read more »
Judge: Mamtek CEO committed $1.3M bond fraud
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The former CEO of Mamtek committed fraud to secure almost $1.3 million from bond funds that were supposed to be used to build an artificial sweetener… Read more »
Obama in Washington for meetings on Iraq, Missouri
By JULIE PACE (WASHINGTON, AP) — Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, President Barack Obama returned to work at the White House Monday, replacing images of him bicycling and… Read more »
Governor Nixon orders National Guard to Ferguson
By NIGEL DUARA and JIM SUHR (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s governor on Monday ordered the National Guard to a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over the fatal shooting of… Read more »