by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | Business, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt, Weather
A southeast Missouri congressman says residents in the small town of Dexter are thankful that there were no injuries or deaths in Saturday night’s EF-2 tornado, which struck the town’s hospital and damaged at least 150 homes. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith...
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Agriculture, Business, Education, Health / Medicine, Legislature, News
While Missouri has a severe shortage of rural physicians, one southeast Missouri state lawmaker says his area also needs more doctors who live there. State Rep. Herman Morse, R-Dexter, says that when he moved to Stoddard County in the mid-1970s, there were 15 to 20...
by Mike Lear | Mar 7, 2013 | Legislature, News
The Revenue Department has offered an explanation for its license offices scanning personal information from concealed carry permit applicants. A lawsuit was filed in Stoddard County over its license office scanning those documents. A judge then granted an order...
by Mike Lear | Mar 5, 2013 | Crime / Courts, News
A lawsuit was filed Monday morning that says a Bootheel license office is violating a state law by collecting information from concealed carry permit applicants. Stoddard County Prosecutor Russell Oliver say his county’s license office is requiring concealed...
by Mike Lear | Jan 11, 2013 | News, Weather
The number of tornadoes in Missouri in 2012 was below average, but the number of people killed by them was not. Preliminary data say Missouri had 28 tornadoes in 2012 that killed 6 people and injured 70. That’s below the average of 32 tornadoes a year going back...