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On the cover of his new album, "The Fall," Jesse Charles Hammock II is pictured in a building that looks to have been hit by a tornado. Debris is all around – bits of fallen ceiling and fallen wall. Jesse is in the center of it, with a shell-shocked look on his face. "That's not far from the truth," said Hammock. Last August, a bizarre accident seemed to foreshadow coming trouble in Hammock's life. He was driving home late one night and "out of nowhere" a horse appeared in the middle of the road. "The horse hit me, and both of us saw our lives flash before us," recalled Hammock. The accident left Hammock shaken. A couple of days later,

SEMO TIMES is proud to announce that one of our editors, Toni Becker, has been named to an Educational Standards Workshop. The following is a press release from House Speaker Tim Jones' office: House Speaker Tim Jones Names Missouri Citizens to Educational Standards Workgroups JEFFERSON CITY – House Speaker Tim Jones today announced his selections to the new Missouri Educational Standards workgroups that were formed with the passage of HB 1490. Jones selected 16 parents and 11 education professionals to participate in the discussions the eight workgroups will have to determine new educational benchmarks for Missouri students. HB 1490 was passed by the Missouri General Assembly during the 2014 regular session to reject the federal Common Core standards and begin a process

Dustin and Whitney McCutcheon being presented their check by Brick's owner Scott Brickell in front of Dirty Hooker, the first truck to ever make it through "The Slough" in the six years of the Mud Truck Challenge   What do you do when you win $10,000 in Brick’s Mud Truck Challenge and win the title “Slough Terminator”? You come back and try to win it again! That’s exactly what Dustin McCutcheon of Marquand, Mo., intends to do September 26-28 when he brings his truck back to Brick’s Offroad Park for their Mud Truck Challenge. Named “Dirty Hooker,” he has become the crowd favorite having become the first truck to ever make it through Brick’s world famous mud slough. Last year,

Noranda President and CEO Layle K. "Kip" Smith is flanked by elected officials and dignitaries at a press conference in this August, 2014, photo at the New Madrid smelter. SEMO TIMES photo by Steve Hankins   NEW MADRID - In the wake of a recent announcement by the region's leading employer that could leave as many as 200 Bootheel workers jobless, a state panel might rethink its stance regarding energy costs to the plant. Layle K. "Kip" Smith, president and chief executive officer of Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp., said the decision by Missouri's Public Services Commission (PSC) regarding a competitive energy rate is to blame for the impending lay off of between 125 and 200 workers during the next six

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.), who co-chairs the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus, sent a letter today demanding answers from the Obama Administration surrounding reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is forcing Americans to declare their race and ethnicity when purchasing a firearm. "The right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is an individual right guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution," Blunt wrote. "The constitutional right of a citizen to own a firearm has nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It is disconcerting that the U.S. government is gathering this type of data on citizens when there is no connection between purchasing a firearm and an individual's race or