- COVID relief money helps pay down unemployment insurance debt
- Some state access limitations for opioid treatment are too restrictive
- Research planned on making sorghum productive
- Public hearings on the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railways
- Pleasant Plains homecoming parade rescheduled following serious injury to football player
- Three killed in crash in Christian County on Monday
- Springfield police recover 20 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition
- Moving Pillsbury Forward's Chris Richmond talks about the results of the environmental study
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