May 2021

JEFFERSON CITY – At the end of this year’s first quarter, teen fatalities in Missouri climbed 63% over this time last year. In the last three years, 24 fatal crashes and 101 serious injury crashes involved an alcohol-impaired driver under the age of 21.

JEFFERSON CITY – Having earlier passed the state Senate on a bipartisan vote, a bill to require out-of-state retailers to pay sales tax on online purchases passed the House Ways and Means Committee last week.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Music was in the air May 1 for Gatsby Day, the Excelsior Springs Cultural Guild’s annual festival to raise scholarship funds. During the afternoon, musical acts performed on Broadway and Thompson.