Ryan Famuliner

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Gov. Jay Nixon signing one education bill, and vetoing another
• Nixon also signs off on small business tax credit
• UM Press closure to go on as expected
• Columbia Fire Marshal to retire on Friday

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• Missouri's U.S. Senators both voted for the Farm Bill
• The latest on a scathing resignation letter of an administrator for Ashland-area schools
• A recent report shows rural economic activity slowed month

This week on Business Beat: an active tech industry in Columbia is seeing a talent deficiency in some areas. Plus, a jump in home sales in Mid-Missouri.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• A one-year-old Columbia tech company is headed to Silicon Valley for a prestigious training program
• A clinic in California, MO gets a grant as part of the federal Affordable Care Act
• Governor Nixon vetoes a bill he considers unconstitutional

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newscast, including:

• A $13.3 million federal grant to the MU Health System
• A Sedalia Community College will be offering classes in Boonville in the Fall
• The state auditor's office says a couple of ballot measures would have no cost to taxpayers

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Cell phones can now be put on MO's no-call list.
• A bank robbery in Columbia put schools on modified lockdown this afternoon
• The VA hospital in Columbia is hiring new mental health workers
• Jefferson City public schools is putting its 500,000 new state dollars to use.

Three Columbia schools were on modified lockdown for about an hour Thursday afternoon.

A war over words is part of a bigger struggle between agriculture interests and their critics. Plus, a national report looks at agriculture research grants from private corporations to land grant Universities, including MU.

Wes and Simone Sorenson pledged to donate their house and the 400 acre farm it sits on 10 years ago, but the University wouldn’t take ownership until after they had died. Wes died in May, and now the University is discussing how to best use the land.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Governor Nixon signs a law aiming to make college transfers easier
• The flights between Columbia and Atlanta begin
• Attempts to remedy that state education funding formula
• Rural MO post offices get a reprieve