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Missouri lawmakers have until Friday May 10 to approve a balanced budget, under the state Constitution. The Missouri House has approved an approximately $49-billion state operating budget. A staffer for Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield), Jacob Schelp, joined us live on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Mid-Missouri” to …

Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher (R-Des Peres) briefs Capitol reporters in Jefferson City on April 25, 2024 (photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications) Missouri’s GOP House Speaker says Monday’s House Ethics Committee vote to dismiss an ethics complaint against him vindicates him. The Associated Press (AP) reports Monday’s …

Missouri Congressional candidate Kyle Bone is no fan of the college campus protesters The pro – Palestinian demonstrations spread to Washington University in St. Louis this past weekend … Kyle Bone is no supporter of the protesters’ call for colleges to stop investing in defense companies that supply Israel. Bone …

A Jefferson City woman is now accused of stealing over 200 iPhones from a storage unit. Lisa Mae Burkhart was charged with burglary and stealing. 225 iPhones were stolen from a storage unit on Industrial Drive. Video allegedly showed Burkhart leaving the unit with a large bag. Court documents say …

More than 100 Pro-Palestinian protesters marched Monday afternoon on the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus. Our news partner KMIZ reports the group, which is known as “Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine,” were showing their support for people in Gaza. The march began at 11 am near the Lowry Mall …

Ranken president Don Pohl speaks at Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony in Ashland (April 26, 2024 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Stephanie Bell) The president of Ranken Technical College says their new multi-million dollar campus in fast-growing Ashland will be industry-driven. Ranken president Don Pohl spoke at Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony: https://939theeagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Pohl-Ranken-1.mp3 “You …

The National Weather Service (NWS) in St. Louis says an EF-1 tornado hit mid-Missouri’s Tipton on Saturday evening (April 28, 2024 graphic courtesy of NWS St. Louis Twitter page) The National Weather Service (NWS) in St. Louis says there were no injuries from the EF-1 tornado that touched down late …

An EF-1 tornado hit Tipton late Saturday night. The National Weather Service, confirms the tornado hit around 11 – Saturday night along Alexander Road. No one was hurt. Trees and utility poles were knocked down and several barn roofs were damaged. Storms also overturned a mobile home. The trailer was …

Global warming? Climate change? Call it what you will. The Biden Administration is threatening U-S power plants to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 90 – percent by 2030 or be shut down. MU Professor Tony Lupo says if you want to talk about dangerous CO-2 emissions, blame China and …

An MU Health Care physician treats a mid-Missouri patient (file photo courtesy of MU Health Care spokesman Eric Maze) Columbia-based MU Health Care will be opening a new and larger urgent care in west Jefferson City in late May. The new location will be in the 3500 block of West …