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St. JOSEPH,  Mo -  Gov. Jay Nixon Wednesday announced the Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) will allow heavier than normal truck loads of farm goods on Missouri highways. The agreement comes at a time of the harvest season when heavy rains impacted negatively farmers' abilities to move crops from the fields. "Many farmers are seeing record harvests this year," Nixon said at a visit to St. Joseph animal nutrition company BioZyme, Inc. "But heavy rains over the last few weeks are making it harder for them to get these valuable crops out of the fields." While the waiver is in effect, farmers, private and for-hire motor carriers may carry up to 10 percent more than their licensed weight, a release

POPLAR BLUFF - Monday was beautiful. Sunshine, mild breeze, autumn in the air, and area high school boys of summer playing their best at the Ozark Foothills Conference (OFC) Tournament on the TRC campus. While statistics measured the performance of athletes mathematically, peers, coaches and families proved the measure of the player. A SEMO TIMES reporter asked a number of fans who they'd watch for, or watch out for, during the series. SEMO TIMES caught up with these fan picks after their games Monday and one by telephone Tuesday. So by popular choice, here are conversations with a few fine young men, their coaches and families. Greenville's No. 3, pitcher and shortstop Trey McDaniel is thought by many to be

POPLAR BLUFF - Last April's City elections gave rise to a "new" group of largely dethroned leaders whose supporters coalesced to form a public group known as "Citizens For Poplar Bluff's Future," a group who pressed for "transparency" and "financial responsibility," among other things (ironically, two of the very criteria that voters emphatically embraced in removing long-time incumbents and ultimately, their leader, former City Manager Doug Bagby). Over the past months, SEMO TIMES has confirmed that Citizen's for Poplar Bluff's Future (CFPBF) was selectively allowing commentary, deleting comments from those with whom it disagreed, and even blocking some individuals who disagreed with its views from participating at all. The group originally devoted to community-betterment and  transparency also refused to disclose the identity of its

JEFFERSON CITY – Friday the Office of Public Counsel (OPC) Friday filed a request to the Public Service Commission (PSC) on behalf of the entire state to provide Noranda with a reduced electric rate because losing Noranda would adversely affect all consumers on the Ameren grid. The proposal is an effort to save hundreds of jobs at Noranda and local economies throughout Southeast Missouri. The new stipulation and agreement was filed in the wake of a recent rejection by the PSC to grant a rehearing for Noranda regarding its original power rate reduction request filed last spring. The OPC's previous proposal garnered support from 37 consumer and corporate organizations; and local, state and U.S. elected officials. Friday's OPC document was backed

There is absolutely nothing better than spending time in the great outdoors with your kids. It is an experience that no child should be without, and it can often be just as rewarding for the adults. My little hunting partner is 9 years old, and this WILL be the year he kills his first deer! We've been out every season for the last four years, and although he has only been big enough to handle the gun himself for the last two (I don’t believe in holding his gun and aiming for him,) it is at a point now where it’s really up to me. He can shoot a baseball at 100 yards, I just have to get him in