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What to know before claiming Social Security benefits

1 year ago By News Staff

Hard-working adults spend years striving to achieve their professional goals. Along the way, planning for retirement is a way to ensure all that hard work pays off when the time comes to call it a career.

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Evaluating seniors’ biggest expenses

1 year ago By News Staff

New parents may not be able to visualize that one day their largest expenditures won’t be centralized around providing necessities for their children. Adults go though many years of paying for diapers, toys, clothing, food, and education for their children. Yet, when the children have flown the coop, spending patterns change, and even more changes await come retirement.

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’Cats ‘knock off the cobwebs’ at camp

1 year ago By Shawn Roney

On July 26, Orrick coach Kirk Thacker and his Bearcats headed to the upper northwest corner of Missouri to prep for the varsity 8-man football season. That day, the Bearcats participated in a multiteam camp at Tarkio, hosted by East Atchison High School.

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In pictures: Softball around sunset

1 year ago By News Staff

Like many other Americans, particularly Midwesterners, members of the Norborne Hardin-Central softball programs are making weather-related schedule adjustments this week. Originally, the Aggies were slated to hold team camp sessions 5-7 p.m.

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Rayville man charged with felony assaults

1 year ago By Miranda Jamison

A Rayville man has been arrested on charges of first- and second-degree assault. Logan D.

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Missouri offers tax-free weekend

1 year ago By Miranda Jamison

Missouri’s annual Backto- School Sales Tax Holiday offers a tax-free period for the purchase of school supplies, computers, clothing and other qualifying items as defined by statute. These items will be exempt from both state and local sales tax from 12:01 a.m. on August 2 until midnight August 4. According to the Missouri Department of Revenue, state and local sales tax will not be charged on the following items: Clothing that does not