Missouri soldier shares first-hand account of Alaskan earthquake
U.S. Army Captain Matthew Rigdon, a 2007 graduate of Seckman High School in eastern Missouri’s Imperial is among the soldiers who experienced Friday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Alaska. Rigdon is...
View ArticleSE Missouri sailor could have been one of the first to sacrifice life at...
Friday is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day and people around the country and in Missouri are paying respects to those who sacrificed their lives during the surprise military strike by Japan against the...
View ArticleTennessee-based airline to begin commercial jet service from Fort Leonard...
(Reporter Gerard Knehans at Missourinet Waynesville affiliate KJPW Radio contributed to this story) Officials in south-central Missouri’s Waynesville and St. Robert announced on Tuesday that Contour...
View ArticleMissouri man killed in Syrian suicide blast
A St. Louis man is among four Americans killed this week in a suicide bombing attack in Syria. Governor Mike Parson says a Pentagon official called to inform him that Scott Wirtz died in Wednesday’s...
View ArticleHartzler discusses opioid epidemic, transportation and broadband with...
A congresswoman who represents a large portion of central and western Missouri traveled to Jefferson City this week to meet with state lawmakers from her district. U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler,...
View ArticleMissouri Gold Star Families memorial legislation stalls in House; key term is...
A resolution recognizing the Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in Point Lookout as Missouri’s “Official Gold Star Families Memorial Monument” stalled this week in the Missouri House, over concerns...
View ArticleGovernor orders flags at half-staff on Thursday to honor Missouri Army...
(Reporter Hal Neisler at Missourinet Festus affiliate KJFF contributed to this story) Missouri’s governor has ordered American and Missouri flags at all government buildings statewide to be flown at...
View ArticleMissourians can officially get REAL IDs
The Missouri Department of Revenue is offering the REAL IDs to residents beginning today. The move is the final step for Missouri to satisfy requirements of a federal law intended to prevent terrorism...
View ArticleMissouri lawmaker amends Gold Star Families monument bill in compromise (AUDIO)
A one-word compromise has been reached in Missouri legislation involving a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument in southwest Missouri’s Point Lookout, near Branson. A bill from State Rep. Jeff Justus,...
View ArticleFlooding prevents popular Missouri airshow from lifting off
A free event that usually draws thousands each year from across Missouri has been called off. The Salute to Veterans organization says extreme flooding has led to the cancellation of its 31st annual...
View ArticleMissouri soldiers, inmates pile the sandbags high in Brunswick
Brunswick in northern Missouri is getting hammered by flooding from the Missouri and Grand Rivers. About 50 Missouri National Guard soldiers and some state prisoners are piling the sandbags high to try...
View ArticleMissouri Legislative Black Caucus Chair praises passage of criminal justice...
The GOP Missouri House Speaker is praising the Legislature for approving three different major criminal justice reforms. Missouri Legislative Black Caucus Chairman Steven Roberts, D-St. Louis, agrees,...
View ArticleBattleship Missouri is being honored with forever stamp (AUDIO)
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is honoring the battleship USS Missouri with a forever stamp, in honor of the 75th anniversary of her commissioning. There were two ceremonies on Tuesday to celebrate the...
View ArticleBattleship USS Missouri crew members from 1945 being sought (AUDIO)
The presiding commissioner in mid-Missouri’s Cole County is searching for living crew members of the battleship USS Missouri, who were on the ship during the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in...
View ArticleNorthwest Missouri stop for vet walking across America
A U.S. Air Force veteran is walking from the east to the west coast to go the distance for other vets. William Shuttleworth, 71, made a stop Wednesday in northwest Missouri’s Chillicothe. He tells...
View ArticleMissouri’s Hartzler: 20 veterans a day are committing suicide (AUDIO)
COLUMBIA, Mo.- A Missouri congresswoman whose sprawling district includes Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster traveled to Columbia on Monday to raise awareness about PTSD and...
View ArticleHawley takes on Nike for patriotic shoe controversy
Nike has pulled plans to roll out around Independence Day sneakers with the U.S. flag from the American Revolution. The Wall Street Journal reports former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others...
View ArticleMissouri congressman to present medals to late veteran’s family on Fourth of...
The family of a deceased southern Missouri veteran will be presented with his military service medals during a Fourth of July event in Salem. U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, R-Salem, will be presenting the...
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