It’s been five years since Senator Matt Bartle’s effort to regulate adult businesses died in the House under circumstances that apparently interest a federal grand jury. Bartle’s new effort looks a lot like the old one. [Read more...]
Water Patrol recognized for high-tech tactics
February 4, 2010 By
The best modern technology has to offer is being used by Missouri divers when something … or someone … is lost in the water.
The Missouri Water Patrol’s dive team was formed in 1979, when dive equipment by today’s standards was rudimentary. Now the team uses high-tech equipment in search and recovery. Sergeant Jerry Callahan says the divers use sonar and other gear to look for objects underwater. He says the use of high-tech equipment can speed up recovery time.
The dive team has been given the “Silver Fin” Award by the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists. The award is given to the most improved dive team in the nation each year. Callahan says Missouri got it this year because of its use of advanced technology.
He says in addition to looking for victims of drowning or boating accidents, the Water Patrol Dive Team is called out to help find stolen safes, cars and guns. Using cameras, metal detectors, sonar and full-face communications gear not only speeds up those searches, but makes the operations safer for the divers.
Callahan says Missouri’s dive team has even gone to other states to train their divers on the new equipment.
“These new technologies have greatly increased the safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of dive recoveries,” the patrol says.
Missouri. Lt. Wayne Talburt, dive team supervisor for the Water Patrol says, “Our divers were very deserving of receiving this award due to their expertise, dedication, and the use of modern technology to perform the best job possible in an environment that is not at all conducive to the human body.”
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Senate advances revived sex shop regs
February 4, 2010 By
Senator Matt Bartle talked about the issue to a federal grand jury in Kansas City Tuesday. Today he won preliminary approval of his bill regulating the adult entertainment industry. The bill has most of the provisions of the 2005 bill that cleared the Senate but was killed by a hostile House committee. [Read more...]
House advances bill to strip TANF benefits from drug users
February 4, 2010 By
A bill that would kick Missourians off a welfare program if they test positive for drugs has advanced in the House.
Do drugs; lose Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) money under HCS HB 1377 that advances in the House on a 113-to-40 vote. The bill would strip TANF money from anyone who tests positive for drug use. [Read more...]
National Guard deploys to Haiti with supplies, help to rebuild
February 4, 2010 By
Missouri National Guard airmen are preparing to fly relief supplies to Haiti. Another crew heads to Arizona before aiding in reconstruction efforts.
State Adjutant General Steve Danner says eleven National Guard airmen have flown a C-130 to Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. They deployed from Rosecrans guard base in St. Joseph.
Danner says the C-130 can carry up to 42,000 pounds of supplies. A separate guard crew will deploy from Arizona. The civil engineer airmen will join a bigger crew there. In Haiti, they’ll plan and direct operations in clean-up, demolition of buildings, reconstruction.
