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Robert MacNeil, the creator and first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour' nightly newscast, has died. He was 93.

Robert MacNeil, the veteran PBS newsman who co-founded and co-hosted the long-running PBS NewsHour and MacNeil/Lehrer Report with Jim Lehrer, died today of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He was 93.

A Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS, Robert MacNeil was the co-anchor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” later expanded as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour."

MacNeil spent time at NBC News early in his career and was a reporter for the network in Dallas on the day President John Kennedy was assassinated.

Ray Scherer Members of the Gasconade County R-1 administration and staff spent time last Thursday extolling special accomplishments to the pandemic before a group of Missouri officials and their representatives. The federal, state, and local officials gathered at the Hermann High School Library for Governmental Relations Day 2020. The program allowed school officials to present various updates -- including those pertaining specifically to COVID-19 -- to local and area government leaders. It als...