A quiet Sunday afternoon of crappie fishing on Lake of the Ozarks, dad and daughter. Since it’s windy, they stay close to the boat docks for some protection. Emma, the 8-year old daughter, is getting some bites, or so she thinks. She pulls in her line and each time the hook is gone, as if it had been cut off.

Dad replaces the hook and Emma casts her…[more]

A defunct St. Louis youth association whose directors used the organization’s non-profit assets for personal gain will be dissolved and its land assets turned over to another non-profit corporation that serves disadvantaged youth, under a consent judgment obtained today by Attorney General Jay Nixon.

Nixon filed a lawsuit against the directors of the Northside Youth Association (NYA) in July 2006, alleging that they used assets for personal gain…[more]

Speaking on behalf of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Director Doyle Childers today expressed his gratitude that the Boonville bridge appeal was settled in the department’s favor.

“This ends years of legal wrangling and the wasting of taxpayer dollars,” Childers said. The Missouri Court of Appeals-Western District’s findings confirmed the department’s position that the State of Missouri has no property interest in the bridge across the Missouri…[more]

Bowling Green, Mo. — A Houston, Texas-based corporation that inundated Missouri small businesses with unwanted junk faxes in violation of state consumer protection laws has been permanently prohibited from continuing the practice due to a judgment obtained by Attorney General Jay Nixon. VIP Comm, which does business as Gold Healthcare, and its owner, Mike Ballas, are also required to pay civil penalties and costs as part of the judgment that…[more]

File this one under “how ironic.”

Timothy Scott Short was arrested just days ago on a charge of stealing a printer and PC from the Missouri Department of Revenue. The PC contained personal data on at least 500 Missourians.

Now, Short is on the receiving end of a data breach involving his own personal data. His Social Security number and his birth date were both accidentally…[more]

Moberly, MO – A group of north Missouri farmers and businessmen selected Moberly as the site of a new biodiesel and soybean crushing facility this week, establishing a new market for regional soybean producers. Board members of Producers’ Choice Soy Energy LLC voted to build the $15-million bean crushing and biodiesel production plant near U.S. 24 and Business 63 in the northern part of Moberly. The site selection is subject…[more]

Four Missouri wastewater treatment plants are the first in the region to begin fixing sewer discharge problems under a strategy for small cities developed by Region 7 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and coordinated with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Bolivar, Buffalo, El Dorado Springs, and Fredericktown have signed consent orders with EPA over the last month agreeing to the action. The cities estimate they might…[more]

2010 is still two years away, but a mounting political uproar is already beginning to be heard across the country about the 2010 Census.

Every ten years, the federal government counts the nation’s populous and puts out a wealth of knowledge about the information it collects. But the numbers are also important for determining which seats in Congress go to which states.

The 14th Amendment to…[more]

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway Program is going wild.

The program, which involves volunteers picking up trash along state highways, is now offering groups the option of adopting roadsides solely to plant Missouri wildflowers. While some groups have been planting flowers, trees and shrubs all along as part of their beautification efforts, this new option will encourage the growth of wildflowers native…[more]

JEFFERSON CITY - Director of Revenue Trish Vincent today issued an urgent notice to Missouri taxpayers of a potential scam involving income tax.  The Department of Revenue has received multiple calls from taxpayers saying that a person identifying himself as “Shane” asked for bank account and routing information so the Department can return overpayments of income taxes.  The phone number left for the taxpayers to call is a 204 area…[more]