KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 5, 2024, entitled "Business Employment Dynamics in Missouri - First Quarter 2024": * * * From December 2023 to March 2024, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Missouri were 143,939, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 133,471  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Nov. 5, 2024: A Gallatin, Mo., man whose family farming operation is the setting of a reality TV show pleaded guilty in federal court today to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits he was not entitled to receive. Steve A. McBee, 52, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stephen  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Nov. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Nov. 5, 2024: U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Tuesday sentenced a man to 22 years in prison for arranging the smuggling a fatal dose of drugs into the St. Francois County jail. Timothy L. Noll, 35, of Park Hills, Missouri, arrived at the jail on July 27, 2021, and began trying to find someone to smuggle drugs into the jail that he could sell. Noll inst  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Nov. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Nov. 5, 2024: A convicted felon on Monday pleaded guilty and admitted shooting at St. Louis County Police Department officers. On the day his trial was set to begin, Dexter McKinnies. 34, pleaded guilty to five felonies: one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts each of assault on a federal officer and discharging a firearm in furth  more