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Hoskins submits legislation regarding VLTs in businesses

4 years ago By News Staff
JEFFERSON CITY – Under legislation filed by state Sen. Denny Hoskins, R- Warrensburg, illegal gaming devices now in use in businesses and clubs would be replaced with regulated and transparent video lottery terminals, VLTs, overseen by the Missouri Lottery Commission.

Mid-Continent Public Library begins loaning out Chromebooks

4 years ago By News Staff
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS – Made possible by a grant administered by the Missouri State Library, Mid-Continent Public Library offers Chromebook laptops for customers to check out and take home. Chromebook Kits can be checked out for up to two weeks with two renewal periods, if there are no “holds” from other customers waiting to check them out.

WWII flier turns 100 years old

4 years ago By Samantha Zelaya
LAWSON – World War II veteran Lindell Jarman, Lawson, celebrated his 100th birthday surrounded by family on Thanksgiving. Having spent three years in college, Jarman, then 21, volunteered for service July 30, 1942, in Kansas City, Kansas, based on National Archives information.
DURING WORLD WAR II, Lindell Jarman, Lawson, enlists and serves as a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps that flies missions in India and China to supply the Chinese fighting against Japanese invaders.

AUDITOR ALLEGES ‘FRAUD’

4 years ago By Jack ‘Miles’ Ventimiglia

JEFFERSON CITY – “At least” $4,348 collected in cash by former City Clerk Marla Berndt as sewer bill payments is unaccounted for in Homestead Village, a Ray County town of roughly 185 people near Excelsior Springs.

Berndt also allegedly failed to pay her own sewer bill and falsified ledgers to conceal non-payments, based on an investigation completed Wednesday by State Auditor Nicole Galloway’s office.

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