SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 18 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in 12 Missouri counties and a neighboring county in Illinois are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Tanya N. Garfield of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary countie  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: Two employees of Jefferson County, Missouri chiropractors involved in a disability fraud conspiracy have been sentenced for their roles in the case. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced Clarissa Pogue, 40, of DeSoto, to five years of probation to include six months of home confinement. She was also ordered to repay $286,00  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Thursday sentenced a man from Hazelwood, Missouri who committed a series of scams trying to steal a total of $404,415 to 111 months in prison and ordered him to repay the money. Naquan Powers, 27, pleaded guilty in March to four felony counts of bank fraud and three felony counts of aggravated ID theft.  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: A man from Belleville, Illinois was indicted Wednesday on charges accusing him of selling the fentanyl that killed someone in St. Louis County in December. The two-count indictment in U.S. District Court in St. Louis accuses Deontae' Tre'Von Overall, 27, of selling the fentanyl that killed a man in St. Louis County on Dec. 4, 2022, and of sel  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: A Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a $4.1 million drug-trafficking conspiracy, which is linked to two murders, and which distributed approximately 400 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas. Markus Michael A. Patterson, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge   more

KEFLAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Air Force Whiteman Air Force Base (509th Bomb Wing) issued the following news: By Tech. Sgt. Heather R. Salazar, 393rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron Three B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, along with more than 150 Airmen, civilians and contractors, arrived at Keflavik, Iceland, to participate in a series of Bomber Task Force missions to integrate operations with our Icelandic Allies and expand ca  more