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BOONE COUNTY - Taylor Stout, a former groomer at a pet shop in Mexico, pleaded guilty Friday to animal abuse and received probation. Stout, 26, was sentenced to one year in Boone County Jail, with suspended execution of sentenced, according to a release from the Audrain County Prosecutor's Office. She was placed on two years of supervised probation. Animal abuse is a class A misdemeanor in Missouri. Stout was originally charged with animal abuse by torture. According to previous KOMU 8 reporting, Stout and co-defendant James Johns were employed at Downtown Pet Stop and were accused of abusing...
COLUMBIA- As Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, comes to an end, the local Muslim community in Columbia has to juggle between celebrating Ramadan and keeping track of the current expansion of their facilities. Shakir Hamoodi, an imam at the Islamic Center and the mosque outreach coordinator, stressed the importance of the project, especially during Ramadan. âThis is the month of giving,â Hamoodi said. âThis is the month where we feel the need of such a project. Hopefully in the future, when it is finished, we can have the space for prayer, for teaching, for playi...
JEFFERSON CITY â Republican lawmakers in Missouri have passed a bill to raise the gas tax for the first time in decades. The GOP-led House on Tuesday voted 104-52 to gradually raise Missouri's 17-cent gas tax to pay for road and bridge maintenance. A committee in the Missouri House of Representatives unanimously approvedSenate Bill 262 on April 27. Missouri has not seen a rise in fuel tax since 1996. If signed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson, the measure would raise the tax by 2.5 cents a year until it hits 29.5 cents per gallon in 2025. According to previous KOMU 8 reporting, Miss...
Kilgore's Medical Pharmacy has multiple locations in Columbia and Ashland. Bill Morrissey, a pharmacist at Kilgore's Medical Pharmacy, said this program would not affect the prescription process. "We already have a monitoring program in effect that covers a large lion share of the state," Morrissey said. "This is just kind of getting it officially from the state level and filling in a few holes in that net of catching those things. There's some small rural counties that are not densely populated that don't report." Morrissey also said that he is happy to see monitoring happen from the sta...