JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 4 -- The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission issued the following news on April 3, 2024: The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission today voted W. Dustin Boatwright, Cape Girardeau, and Terry L. Ecker, Elmo, into the roles of commission chair and vice chair, respectively. Ecker previously served as commission chairman over the past year, with Boatwright as vice chair. Boatwright, an Independent, was appointed to the commission in September 2  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Chief of Staff of the Army announces the following officer assignments: Maj. Gen. Kimberly M. Colloton, deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., to deputy chief of engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army; and deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. Maj. Gen. Lance G. Curtis, dep  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 4 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve issued the following speech on April 3, 2024, by Governor Adriana D. Kugler at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University: * * * The Outlook for the U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy * * * Thank you, Andrew, and thank you for the opportunity to speak here today./1 I am very pleased to be talking here at the Weidenbaum Center. As an economist currently working on policy, but with a lo  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: The Justice Department today filed a civil injunction suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas seeking to permanently bar Mayuen K. Ajak, Yier B. Deng, Bol C. Guot, Gabriel M. Kuot and Golden D4 Heart Tax Services LLC from owning or operating a tax preparation business and preparing tax returns. The complaint also requests that the court require the defendants to d  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the Justice Department is adding three new cities to its Criminal Division's Violent Crime Initiative (VCI), building on the successful model launched in Houston, Texas, in September 2022, and expanded to Memphis, Tennessee, in November 2023. The VCI surges law enforcement tools and  more

SIKESTON, Missouri, April 4 -- The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission issued the following news on April 3, 2024: The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission awarded contracts for the Southeast District during its regular meeting on April 3. Contracts included pavement repairs, bridge replacements, signal improvements, and sign replacements. Contracts included the following: * A $569,500 contract was awarded to Putz construction, LLC, for concrete pavement repairs on non-  more

SIKESTON, Missouri, April 4 -- The Missouri Department of Transportation issued the following news on April 3, 2024: Route 72 in Reynolds County will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews improve sidewalks in Lesterville, Missouri. This project is part of the Missouri Department of Transportation's initiative to bring roadway facilities into compliance with the current standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This section of roadway is located between County Road 354 and Pa  more

SIKESTON, Missouri, April 4 -- The Missouri Department of Transportation issued the following news on April 3, 2024: Contractor crews will improve the sidewalks on Route O in Park Hills, Missouri. This project is part of the Missouri Department of Transportation's initiative to bring roadway facilities into compliance with the current standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This section of roadway is located at the corner of Jefferson Street and 7th Street. Weather permitting,  more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Missouri man pleaded guilty today to two felony charges and was convicted of a third related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and those of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Nicholas L. Kennedy, 43, of Sikeston, Mi  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Tuesday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri man caught with a gun and fentanyl after a police chase to a total of 10 years in prison. Antwan Boothe, 33, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in December to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and one count of bein  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry on Wednesday sentenced a man who was caught with a methamphetamine in a carjacked vehicle to 10 years in prison. Taylor Aellen Foster, 26, of Webster Groves, Missouri, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in November to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to d  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury after police officers found almost six kilograms of suspected heroin in a trash bag he discarded following a traffic accident. Luis Ponce-Lopez, 26, a citizen of Mexico, was charged in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday,   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 4 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on April 3, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the pending Clean Air Act (CAA) regulatory proposal Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources and Emission Guidelines for Existing Sources: Large Municipal Waste Combustors Voluntary Remand Response and 5-Year Review. The State of Indiana led the letter, urging the   more