WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 30, 2024) - Today, at Ilus W. Davis Park in Kansas City, Missouri, EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister presented ceremonial checks totaling $4.5 million to the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and the Kansas City Regional Brownfields Coalition for their selection to receive additional funding for their Brownfields Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs). McCollister was joined by Kansas Ci  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey Central Midwest Water Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-5085) on Sept. 9, 2024, entitled "Suspended Sediment and Trace Element Transport in the Big River Downstream from the Old Lead Belt in Southeastern Missouri, 2018-21". The report was written by Kendra M. Markland and Camille E. Buckley. * * * Lead Belt, an area of major lead mining from the 1860s until 1972 where more than 8.5 million t  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Oct. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release: Fifteen members or associates of a south St. Louis gang that sold fentanyl have been convicted and sentenced for drug, gun and other crimes. Rapper Davante "Jizzlebuckz" Lindsey, 27, was sentenced September 9 to 12 years in prison. Andre "Luh Half" Pearson, 28, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on September 20. Lindsey and Pearson were leaders of the 55 Boyz,  more

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, Oct. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: An Ozark, Mo., man and a Springfield, Mo., man have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Robert Jason Smith, 48, of Ozark, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to 25 years in federal prison without parole. Smith was sentenced as a career criminal due to his pr  more