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A Kentucky woman was hospitalized after she picked up a dollar bill she suspected was laced with fentanyl on Sunday. 'My body went completely numb, I could barely talk and I could barely breathe. I was fighting to stay awake,' Renne Parson wrote on Facebook. Parson says she was driving with her husband, Justin, and children through Nashville, Tennessee, when the family stopped at a local McDonald's to use the restroom. Renne was holding her three-month-old baby while waiting to use the restroom when she spotted a dollar bill on the ground. 'Thinking nothing of it - I picked it...

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill containing a number of changes to elections and voting, including a requirement to have a government-issued photo ID, into law Wednesday. House Bill 1878 also allows for two weeks of early in-person voting without needing an excuse, bans drop boxes for absentee ballots, allows the Secretary of State to audit voter rolls, bans private donations to election authorities and eliminates Missouri's presidential preference primary. "In 2020 and years prior, Missouri has conducted free, fair, and secure elections, but with changing technologies and new emerging threats, we want to ensure they remain...

Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson has a bold idea to get Congress to pass housing legislation: have a million people break into empty houses. Parson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is running to represent Washington’s 6th Congressional District. In a video ad, she outlined what she and her followers can do if she wins.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - After the White House rebuked Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday for saying Missouri would not welcome a federal door-to-door vaccination outreach strategy, the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services appeared to walk back the governor's statements. On Wednesday evening Parson tweeted: “I have directed our health department to tell the federal government that sending government employees or agents door-to-door to compel vaccination would NOT be an effective OR welcome strategy in Missouri!” But late Thursday, the department struck a more conciliatory tone. “We do not have an email or message sent to the federal government...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri police will be barred from enforcing federal gun laws that regulate weapons registration, tracking and possession of firearms by some domestic violence offenders under a bill Gov. Mike Parson, a former sheriff, announced Thursday he will sign into law. Passage of the “Second Amendment Preservation Act” represents a victory for conservatives who have pushed the legislation for nearly a decade and picked up new momentum this year by responding to the Biden administration’s vows to enact stricter gun control. It’s been met by outrage and alarm from Democrats and gun control advocates, who have slammed...

Missouri R party chair and former state rep abandoned her district (MO 99) to become chair, then her candidate, a nice lady, lost to a Soros leftist. Party shirks responsibility. Josh Hawley is talking a good job, but he is responsible for the meltdown here - he essentially supported the corrupt leftist attack against Greitens. Now a young white leftist female who is running for governor has launched a scandal against Hawley just as Greitens is publicly cleared. Then the governor (Parson) announces this is his last race. How damn exciting these MO Repubicans are! What fighters. This makes me...

JEFFERSON CITY As Missouri Gov. Mike Parson gears up to run for his first full term next year, there are rumblings of rebellion on his right flank. Some conservatives in the state, frustrated by what they regard as Parson’s too-moderate agenda, would like to see the incumbent Republican draw a primary challenge. Others are still stinging from the downfall of former Gov. Eric Greitens, who Parson replaced last summer after an avalanche of scandals and criminal charges forced him to resign to avoid criminal prosecution and impeachment. For now, it’s highly unlikely Parson will face a real threat from within...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Mike Parson was sworn in as the 57th Governor of Missouri Friday afternoon, ending the tumultuous term of Eric Greitens, who resigned amid accusations of campaign impropriety and sexual misconduct involving a mistress. The oath was administered at 5:30 p.m. by Judge Mary Rhodes Russell in a private ceremony due to time constraints. Parson said he'll hold a public swearing-in at a later date. Parson, 62, was born and raised in Wheatland, Missouri and is a third-generation farmer. He spent six years in the US Army, serving two tours with the Military Police Corps, before returning...

Eric Greitens stormed into the governor’s office in January 2017 vowing to clean up a state government he said was corrupt. He resigned Tuesday just as abruptly as he had arrived on Missouri's political scene, his career buried under an avalanche of scandal and felony charges. Mike Parson, 63, a fellow Republican and former sheriff who served 11 years in the General Assembly before being elected as lieutenant governor in 2016, will take over as Missouri’s 57th governor. He’ll finish Greitens’ term, which runs until January 2021. A Rhodes scholar and former Navy SEAL, Greitens was once considered one of...

An important candidate's forum is taking place this Friday, April 23rd - organized by the good people at Action Is Brewing.The complete details follow below - admission is $15 at the door: April 23rd: Candidate Forum, Debate, and Reception / Reno What:  Conservative Nevada Candidates for Governor and US SenateWhere: The Grove at South Creek, 95 Foothill Road, Reno, NV 89511When: April 23rd, 6-9pm. Ticket purchase begins at 4:00pm, Doors open at 5:00pm.Cost: Earlybird Registration is CLOSED / Admission is $15 at the door, $0 for candidates.Send inquiries to event@angerisbrewing.com or call Debbie at 775-530-2694This is the most comprehensive...

Pastor, Wife Charged With Setting Fire to Their Own Church The Associated Press Published: May 3, 2005 SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) - A pastor and his wife have been charged with arson in a fire that gutted their church last week, authorities said Tuesday. The Monday arrests of The Rev. Harold Hunter and Patricia Hunter came just one day after the pastor gave a sermon in which he said he prayed for the "sick, sadistic" person who burned down the church. No one was hurt in the blaze. Police would not discuss a possible motive, but said they had suspected that...

Obituaries in the News - AP The Associated Press Published: Apr 16, 2004 Rabbi Jay Litvin JERUSALEM (AP) - Rabbi Jay Litvin, a leader of the rescue organization Children of Chernobyl, died Thursday, said a spokesman for Chabad, the Orthodox Jewish movement that founded the organization. He was 60. Litvin worked as medical liaison of the aid group that lifted children out of the area of the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Ukraine, said the spokesman, Zalman Shmotkin. In addition to about 4,400 people initially killed by the Chernobyl accident, more than 2 million others were later hospitalized with related...