The who’s who among Missouri politics will be at the state fair on Thursday for ham, eggs, and mingling. The Governor’s Ham Breakfast – a tradition that has been going on for 71 years – will bring together people running for office and voters. The breakfast is...
Seventeen years after raping and murdering a nine-year-old girl, Christopher Collings is scheduled to be put to death. The Missouri Supreme Court has set the execution date of December 3 for Collings. In 2007, the southwest Missouri man took Rowan Ford from her home...
Protests to remember the tenth anniversary of Michael Brown’s death took a violent turn Friday night – leading to a Ferguson police officer suffering from a severe brain injury. Ferguson Police Officer Travis Brown is in critical but stable condition after being...
A new era has begun at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Karla Eslinger is the state’s latest public education commissioner. Last December, the Missouri Board of Education announced Eslinger as Missouri’s seventh top educator. She...
The barn doors have opened for the 2024 Missouri State Fair. The Show Me State’s largest agriculture expo is underway in west-central Missouri’s Sedalia. State Fair Director Jason Moore said a new feature at this year’s fair is a drone show. “The first three nights...
