Palmyra News

As of this date, Perry State Bank's five facilities are now HNB National Bank locations.

MoDOT is monitoring several roads in the Northeast area that could be closed due to potential flash flooding.

Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer and Democrat Judy Baker will face off in the November race to replace Kenny Hulshof as the 9th District representative to the U.S. Congress.

Twelve years later, the four Democrats hoping to succeed Kenny Hulshof in Congress want to party like it's 1996.

Unlike a growing number of Americans, young and old, I enjoy my newspapers. My day starts and ends with a newspaper.

Heaving crowds of Thai protesters breached a police barricade and surrounded government offices Friday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.

PALMYRA, Missouri - The crest of the swollen Mississippi River moved relentlessly downstream on Saturday as volunteers manned sandbagged levees, nursed hopes and coped with the costs of the worst ...

Nick Carey is a Chicago correspondent for Reuters who spent last week traveling up and down a 300-mile (480-km) stretch of mid-Mississippi River flood plain as the giant stream overflowed its banks and levees and swallowed up small towns and thousands of acres of some of the richest farmland in America. In the following story he writes of his impressions of people he met as they fortified levees, organized flood responses, and coped with the disaster.

By Nick Carey

PALMYRA, Missouri (Reuters) - I knew for a fact that Brent Hoerr was exhausted.

Nigeria's most active armed group Saturday urged foreign workers to leave oil facilities in the volatile Niger Delta, warning of fresh unrest following a government crackdown on the militants.

Marion County is seeking some volunteers to help with sandbagging. Marion County Commissioner Lyndon Bode says a levee in the south river drainage district east of Palmyra could be overtaken by the river.

We trust this could never happen to us. When we walk through the mud and see people whose lives have been washed away, we don't forget.

Captain John W. Elliott, commanding officer of Troop B, Macon, announces the Canton Driver Examination Station, located at Canton City Hall Building, will be closed on Thursday, June 19, 2008, due to flooding ...

Two men wanted in a construction scam in Polk County have been arrested in Palmyra, Mo.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center hosted an energy roundtable with U.S. Sen.

A 77-year-old northeast Missouri woman is dead following an all-terrain vehicle accident at her rural home.Ellen Pennewell died at the scene of the accident Wednesday near Palmyra, about 110 miles north of St.

Traffic slowed down on Highway 61 just south of Palmyra, Mo. Thursday morning. A semi hydroplaned in the pouring rain causing it to jackknife. via KHQA-TV Quincy

Marion County authorities are investigating the killing of 34 deer on a family farm in Palmyra by three dogs. via KTVO Kirksville

“Minor W. and Elizabeth Obannon”

Editor's note: The author has developed a program, "Little Cabins: Slave Dwelling Architecture in Missouri's Little Dixie" that aims to educate people about historic sites in the area and urge the preservation ... via Marshall Democrat-News

“Oh...and the best part...the whole school caught up on fire from 3 simple little fires. One was a bunch of computers, another a bunch of bibles, and the last was towels in an oven.”

BLOG A dumb punk on Cnet's popular GameFAQs message boards bragged online about burning a church to the ground, leading to his arrest. via Next Generation