The Springfield Police Department is now offering new police recruits a $5,000 hiring incentive, lateral officers a $10,000 hiring incentive, and implementing a student loan reimbursement plan.
Arkansas lawmakers on Wednesday gave final approval to new restrictions on cryptocurrency mining operations after facing backlash for limiting local governments’ ability to regulate them last year.
Kansas lawmakers have yet to vote on legislation to attract professional sports teams, now Kansas City and Missouri officials are sharing what they want to see happen with the Royals and Chiefs.
By The Associated Press and MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press
Donald Trump faces the prospect of additional sanctions in his hush money trial as he returns to court for another contempt hearing followed by testimony from a lawyer who represented two women who have said they had sexual encounters with the former president.
About 680 women died last year during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to provisional CDC data. That’s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 in 2021, when it was the highest level in more than 50 years.
One of our viewers wants to know if, if kids play on those green utility boxes and get hurt, the utility, the homeowner, or the child’s parents are liable.
The United States Department of Agriculture issued a recall Wednesday for more than 16,000 pounds of ground beef due to concerns for an E. coli contamination.
Missouri voters on Wednesday got a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour after a group behind the effort said it turned in nearly double the required number of signatures.
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with the decades of controversy around the issue.