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• Governor says Arkansas base may house migrants June 22, 2018
  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Arkansas’ Republican governor says he’s opposed to the federal government using any facilities in the state to house migrant children who are separated from their parents. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday he understands that officials are looking at the Little Rock Air Force Base and unused federal land in south Arkansas […]
  The Associated Press
• Missouri Gov. Parson meets with Trump, Pence at White House June 21, 2018
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is among a group of eight governors meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Parson’s spokesman Steele Shippy said the Republican governor is having lunch Thursday with Trump and Pence at the White House. Shippy says the group is set to discuss infrastructure […]
  The Associated Press
• Arkansas court clears way for medical pot program’s launch June 21, 2018
  by Andrew DeMillo, AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the state to launch its medical marijuana program, reversing and dismissing a judge’s ruling that prevented officials from issuing the first licenses for businesses to grow the drug. Pulaski County Judge Wendell Griffen ruled in March […]
  The Associated Press
• Southwestern Missouri fire chief accused of sodomy, rape June 21, 2018
  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A longtime southwestern Missouri chief has been indicted on three counts of second-degree sodomy and one count of second-degree rape. Brookline Fire Chief Larry McConnell was indicted Wednesday. He is jailed on $25,000 bond and does not have a listed attorney. The Springfield News-Leader reported last year that McConnell was under […]
  The Associated Press
• Boil order lifted in Thayer June 21, 2018
  THAYER, Mo. — A section of the city of Thayer is no longer under a boil order. City officials announced on Monday, June 18 that the area between Pine St. to Arch St. and Front St. to 5th St. was under the boil order, along with the east side of town by McDonald’s. The order […]
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