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In T.S. Eliot's iconic poem "The Waste Land," April is the cruelest month. In Arkansas, even with the balm of air conditioning, the cruelest month is often August. Our summer's fiery furnace keeps pumping out the heat, while cooler autumn weather seems a distant fantasy.

Dave Byrnes / July 20, 2021 Residents of Cahokia Heights in southwestern Illinois are taking their town and public water district to federal court over what they say is a violation of the Clean Water Act and basic human rights. Dave Byrnes / July 16, 2021 The captain of an amphibious duck boat vehicle and two other employees of tour company Ride the Ducks Branson were each charged with multiple counts of manslaughter over a 2018 tragedy in which 17 people drowned in Missouris Table Rock Lake. D...

If You Hate Boise So Much, Then Move: An Open Letter So, you hate Boise, Idaho. Im sorry to hear that. Who hurt you? Its too hot. Its too cold. The people are grumps. The locals arent nice. You cant figure out whats so special. There arent enough bars. Theres no In-N-Out. Maybe its time for you to move? Before I begin or rather, before you start to comment on this post with all sorts of heated ad hominem or "straw man" attacks, let me justify myself. Then again, who am I kidding--Ill be attacke...

Duck boat captain, managers charged in 2018 sinking that killed 17 near Branson Judy L. Thomas and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star Jul. 16—The Missouri Attorney General and the Stone County prosecuting attorney on Friday announced the filing of criminal charges against three employees of a Branson company whose duck boat capsized during a 2018 storm on Table Rock Lake, killing 17. The charges stem from the decision by Ride the Ducks employees to have a sightseeing vessel ...

‘NYPD Blue’ Star Chooses Idaho For Personal Bucket List Challenge There are so many bucket list items to accomplish in a state like Idaho. You can go the David Rush route and go for a bunch of world records. You can go the foodie route and indulge in all the must try eats in Idaho (thinking of the ice cream baked potato). You can go the party route, like riding the mechanical bull at Dirty Little Roddys. Or you can go the outdoorsy route, like Charlotte Ross did over the weekend. Millennia...

Por Julia Bertino Foto: Nebraska State Patrol (Jefferson County, NE) -- The Nebraska State Patrol is asking for any information the public may have about a Jefferson County woman who they believe went missing under suspicious circumstances. The NSP says 55 year old Linda Dillard has been missing since the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 16th. Investigators say she was last seen in the rural Table Rock area. Dillard is described as a white woman, 5’0”, 130 lbs., with blue eyes and...

Authorities investigating 2 separate crashes near Heise Share This HEISE – Two people walked away unharmed from two separate crashes near Heise Saturday afternoon. Sgt. Bryan Lovell with the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office tells EastIdahoNews.com both of the crashes occurred around 2:30 p.m. The first one involved a truck that rolled over at Table Rock and Snake River Road east of Heise. One of the people inside the truck was flown to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls...

The Trolley House has been serving up specialty omelets and other incredible made-from scratch breakfasts and lunches on Warm Springs Avenue since 1976. Now the building it calls home is on the market.  We stumbled across the listing while working on our photo gallery of the most expensive homes on the market in Boise and were a little surprised to see the the historic restaurant for sale. Its long been a hidden gem for people to stop at for some good, home cooking before or after hiking Tabl...

Copyright 2021 KBIA. To see more, visit KBIA. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: New cases of COVID-19 have been dropping for weeks in most states, but there are outliers. Missouri has seen some of the biggest increases in the U.S. since mid-June, and that state also ranks near the bottom for the total number of vaccinations. Public health advocates say its especially worrying in rural areas as the highly infectious Delta variant gets more dominant. Rebecca Smith with member station KBIA has the story. REB...

Five Years Ago Today: The Fire at Table Rock [Photos] I remember it as if it were yesterday-- the fire that blazed through the Boise foothills--but not just any part of the foothills, were talking the most iconic portion of them: Table Rock. Just the name "Table Rock" rings home to anyone in the area. For locals like me, it might have been where you snuck off to in high school to shotgun your first beer or kiss your first crush. For those moving into town, its the place that they try and list o...