Popular Outlet Center Celebrates the Start of Deer Hunting Season with a Three-Day Shopping Extravaganza OSAGE BEACH – To kick off one of Missouri's biggest hunting seasons, Osage Beach Premium Outlets® will host their own version of hunting – bargain hunting. Taking place November 14-16, the inaugural Deer Widows Weekend presented by Under Armour will feature special events and sales beyond the center's everyday savings of 25 to 65 percent. With 110 stores and a destination location, Deer Widows Weekend will have extended hours, giveaways and more, making it the perfect girls' getaway weekend. To get in the bargain hunting spirit, shoppers are encouraged to wear camouflage and hunters orange. "Deer Widows Weekend is bargain hunting at its best, and with

For months I’ve been telling you about how detrimental the new Waters of the United States Environmental Protection Agency regulation would be to our way of life, and now there’s something we can do to stop it. The federal government is accepting comments on this new proposed rule through Friday, Nov. 14. As your congressman, I am submitting comments to explain just how damaging this federal overreach would be to our area, and I encourage you to submit comments as well. This new rule would expand the Clean Water Act and attempt to regulate every body of water in the United States. This would mean any area of ground that gets wet or has water flow during rainfall would fall

Senator McCaskill, Chairman of Senate’s Consumer Protection panel, responds to reports that manufacturer knowingly withheld information on airbag defect that could have saved lives   WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, Chairman of the Senate’s panel on Consumer Protection, today released the following statement on news reports that Japanese manufacturer Takata knowingly hid safety defects in its airbags from safety regulators—information that may have saved lives:   If these reports are true, they show a company more concerned with profits than the lives of consumers—a company that needs to be held fully accountable, not just with financial penalties, but also with criminal charges. I trust that safety regulators and Justice Department officials are looking closely at these accusations and considering every

JEFFERSON CITY - Minimum wage workers in Missouri will earn $7.65 per hour beginning Jan. 1. The announcement from the state's Department of Labor came Friday. The law regulates employee wage minimums for all companies whose gross annual sales exceed $500,000. The wage represents an increase of 15 cents per hour from 2014's minimum, according to reports. Missouri minimum wage workers now earn $7.50 per hour which is 25 cents higher than the federally mandated $7.25 per hour, reports indicate. All minimum wage employees in neighboring states save Illinois, where the minimum is $8.25, are paid the prevailing federal minimum. Of America's 144 million workers, approximately one percent, - 1.6 million people - earned that prevailing federal minimum in 2012, documents released by

PHOTO - County Clerk-elect Kent Hampton emcees the Hee-Haw program at First Southern Baptist Church at Malden. by Mike Hankins MALDEN - Hee Haw night at the First Southern Baptist Church here Friday evening was an uproarious success. The hillbilly-inspired fellowship and fun was the second time church members united to perform the program made popular by the country-themed television series that starred Buck Owens, Minnie Pearl, Archie Campbell and Roy Clark, to name a few. Dunklin County Clerk-elect Kent Hampton donned Jed Clampett-like jeans and a spiffy country-fried hat to emcee the event. Hampton was joined in the church's Family Life Center by about 40 cast members that featured the church choir, which performed songs, skits and stand-up jokes outfitted in

BRANSON – Thursday, November 6.  Sen. Doug Libla (R-Poplar Bluff) and Rep. Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff) were honored with the Missouri Community College Association's Legislative Award of Distinction at a ceremony in Branson tonight.  The award was presented in recognition of Libla's and Richardson's strong and focused advocacy on behalf of Missouri's community colleges and the students they serve.  Three Rivers College president Dr. Wes Payne praised the legislators, describing them as powerful advocates and indefatigable in their efforts to support both Three Rivers College and community colleges around the state. This year marked MCCA’s fiftieth annual convention.  Association members celebrated the milestone by hosting several former community college leaders at the convention, including Dr. Norman Myers, founding president of