Stories from Saturday, August 27, 2022

A second arrest has been made by deputies in a string of agricultural copper thefts that occurred in rural Butler County. Glen Yandell Jr. was arrested Thursday afternoon on Butler County Road 604, according to Sheriff Mark Dobbs.

About a fifth of our country now lives in a news desert, according to research by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. They define this as “a place where residents in a community have very limited access to the sort of news and information that helps them make good everyday decisions, as well as good decisions that will affect the long-term quality of life of future generations.”...

For several weeks now the members of the Missouri House of Representatives have anticipated the need to return to Jefferson City for a special session to make historic income tax cuts and extend key agriculture tax credit programs. This week, Gov. Mike Parson officially issued the call for the extra session that is set to begin Tuesday, Sept. 6 at noon...

Jack Rogers and Geraldine “Gerry” Peterman Rogers began their 75-year love story on Nov. 11, 1945 at an Armistice dance in their hometown of Midland, Michigan. The young couple were a mere 16 and 17 years old at the time. Jack, now in his nineties, can no longer recall the song that they shared their first dance to, but he remembers his then soon-to-be bride with great detail...

Grover Leon Blagg passed away Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in his home in Willow Springs, MO. He was born on Jan. 16, 1946, to Walter Blagg and Doris Inez (Notter) Blagg. He was the fourth of seven children. He was born in a house that sat on a sand knoll on the family cotton farm just north of Neelyville, MO. ...