Gov. Jay Nixon today appointed Lynn M. Ewing III, the prosecuting attorney of Vernon County to the Missouri Southern State University Board of Governors.

People interested in running for county, state or local elected offices will start filing on Tuesday for election to those seats up for grabs in the November election.

The Jasper County Clerk’s Office will open at 8 a.m. Tuesday on the first day of the filing period.

A bill better defining a majority vote on tax issues in elections has suffered a setback, a state representative reports.

A bill imposing new regulations on sexually oriented business that originated in part in Jasper County made it over a big hurdle that stopped it in its tracks last year.

Preliminary results from the autopsy of the body of little Eddie Salazar Jr. could take two weeks to come back from the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office in Columbia.

A page on the social networking Internet site Facebook was created on Sunday to remember little Eddie Salazar Jr., and provide a place for residents to leave notes of condolence.

The historic Katy Bridge — unused for years and the source of longstanding battles among state government, a railroad company and Boonville residents — will continue to sit atop the Missouri River.

 

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urged drivers of recalled Toyotas earlier this week to park their cars if they noticed stiffer than normal gas pedals. By the time that recommendation was issued, Ruth Hart was already wary of her Camry after receiving a pair of recall notices.

Water in both solid and liquid forms is predicted to fall on Carthage and the surrounding area on Thursday and Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Springfield.

Many households are cutting the wires, abandoning conventional telephones and using their cellular phones as their only phones.

The earth may not shake and rumble in Carthage like it does in other places in the world but that didn’t stop a Carthage native from making studying earthquakes a career.

After spending the last two years deep in the adoption process, an Arkansas couple were rocked to the core last week after the Haiti earthquake.

State Treasurer Clint Zweifel announced today he has appointed Angie Heffner Robyn his Deputy State Treasurer.

Matt Huntley said he was struck by the abject poverty and the conveniences that he took for granted in the U.S. that were missing from a society located less than 800 miles off U.S. shores.