RICHMOND – Long before the world became aware of the novel coronavirus that has most people in the United States staying home, the pork industry watched with concern as a different virus decimated the pig population in China.
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – The Excelsior Springs Chamber of Commerce offers aid to businesses “affected and greatly diminished by the COVID-19 pandemic though a grant program,” chamber President Elaina Lamley said.
LIBERTY – The Clay County Sheriff’s Office identified the inmate pronounced dead at an area hospital – after suffering a medical emergency in the Clay County Detention Center on Friday – as Charles Aaron Holtsclaw, 36, Kansas City.
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services encourages people who are fully recovered from COVID-19 to make an unpaid, voluntary donation of plasma.