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JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The Department of Social Services is asking the public and stakeholders for comments and suggestions regarding the implementation of HB 557, which became law on July 14, 2021. HB 557 helps protect children at child placing agencies, licensed residential care facilities, and license-exempt residential care facilities that provide 24-hour care to …

LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) – Authorities have charged a second man in a fatal shooting at an entertainment venue at the Lake of the Ozarks. Camden County prosecutors charged 23-year-old Craig Hawkins Jr. with second-degree murder and first-degree assault on Thursday. Twenty-nine-year-old Chad Brewer was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and drug charges. The two …

Officials hosted a  “Topping Out Ceremony” today at the  site of the Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex at 212 West 7th St. In Joplin. Construction crews have been working for 5 months and today the final beam on any steel structure was signed and set in place. Connect to Culture President/CEO Clifford Wert, …

Tuesday, Joplin voters will be going to the polls to decide if the quarter cent sales tax that supports parks and storm water projects will be extended.    Former Joplin Mayor Mike Seibert told the KZRG Morning News Watch, “This ten year extension will generate about 43 million dollars.”  Seibert was joined by Joplin City Manager …

(AP) – A former maintenance manager at the Tyson Foods plant in Emporia has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for defrauding the company out of more than $416,000. David John Ranger was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in April to one count of wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $410,000 in …

(AP) – The Kansas Supreme Court says a man who beat an Overland Park woman and then left her to die does not have to register as a sex offender. Korrey Raine White Rinke was sentenced in December 2019 to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years for the 2016 death …