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A bill designed to protect the elderly from financial abuse is heading to the U-S Senate.  The bill sponsored by Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to provide recommendations to Congress on how to protect elderly and vulnerable adults from being exploited financially.  It would also allow investment companies to …

(AP) — The attorney for a man from Missouri facing lethal injection next week says he will ask the state Supreme Court to postpone the execution by three or four months to allow more time to investigate his innocence claim.  Leonard Taylor faces execution Feb. 7 for the 2004 deaths of his girlfriend and her …

Three former candidates for Carterville City Council have been busted for not properly disclosing the source of their campaign finances. Allison Pendergrass ran for Carterville City Council in April of 2022. During her campaign she had distributed lawn signs to the community in support of 3 candidates, her self being one of them. At least …

(AP) — Donna Kelce is going to have to pull out her custom jersey — the one with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s front stitched to Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce’s back — one more time this season.  For the first time in Super Bowl history, a pair of siblings will square off …

Fatal crash leads to first degree manslaughter charges and other charges against 22 year old Alan Jones of Carthage.    Springfield Police report the accident happened back on December 3rd of last year at the intersection of I-44 and Glenstone.   According to investigators, Jones was going 94 miles per hour when he struck a car driven …

A man suspected of killing two women in Green Bay over the weekend has been arrested by police in Arkansas, authorities said Monday. The 48-year-old Green Bay man was initially being sought as a person of interest in Sunday’s suspicious deaths of two women on the city’s east side, police said. He was taken into custody …