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By My Courier-Tribune SMITHVILLE — The Missouri State Highway Patrol offers safety tips heading into National Safe Boating Week, May 18 to 24. National Safe Boating Week is purposefully scheduled just prior to Memorial Day weekend, which many people consider the kickoff to the boating season. “Boaters are encouraged to arrange for a thorough inspection

By My Courier-Tribune Right after daffodils, tulips and hyacinths have spent their last flowers, many homeowners mow the plants down. That’s a bad idea if you want them to keep flowering year after year, according to a University of Missouri Extension press release. Spring-flowering bulbs need to photosynthesize and produce food in order for the

By Metro Creative Slow cooking has become very popular in recent years. The convenience of slow cooking, which allows home cooks to begin preparing meals in the morning or afternoon and then enjoy a delicious dinner without having to put in much work after a day at the office, no doubt plays a big role

By Wealth of Geeks via AP The real estate market was one of the industries hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. Housing and rental prices skyrocketed in the years immediately after the pandemic. However, Realtor.com has some good news for renters: rental prices are finally dropping. Mortgages on starter homes in the biggest cities cost

By Wealth of Geeks via AP The Pew Research Center released findings from a survey this January, giving insight into how Americans feel about the economy. It holds good news and bad news for the incumbent Biden administration. Americans are feeling upbeat about the country’s financial shape, but they don’t want President Biden steering the

By Associated Press PHOENIX — Frank Vogel’s tenure as coach of the Phoenix Suns is done after one disappointing season that ended without a playoff victory. The franchise fired the 50-year-old Vogel on Thursday, less than two weeks after getting swept out of the first round of the NBA playoffs by the Minnesota Timberwolves. “After

By Wealth of Geeks via AP A new survey from Real Estate Witch found homeowners spend an average of $17,958 annually on home expenses such as maintenance, taxes, utilities, and other costs — in addition to payments toward mortgage principal and interest. Home prices aren’t the only housing expense on the rise. The non-mortgage costs

By Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy hoped that his victory with Shane Lowry two weeks ago in the Zurich Classic team event would serve as a springboard for the remainder of the season. He’s off to a good start. McIlroy positioned himself for a run at a record fourth Wells Fargo Championship title

By Wealth of Geeks via AP Over the two decades, more than $84 trillion in assets will be left behind by baby boomers and members of the Silent Generation as they shuffle off their mortal coils. As these folks enter their eighties and nineties, America’s economy is on the cusp of an intergenerational shift financial

By Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed legislation to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson’s signature could mean Missouri joins a small band of states — Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas, according to Planned Parenthood — to have successfully blocked

By Associated Press NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Thursday to pull the S&P 500 back within 1% of its record following a rough April. The S&P 500 rose 26.41 points, or 0.5%, to 5,214.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 331.37, or 0.8%, to 39,387.76, and the Nasdaq composite added 43.51, or 0.3%, to

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Cracks are showing in one of the main pillars keeping the economy out of a recession: resilient spending by U.S. households. Consumer goods giants from PepsiCo to Kraft Heinz have described recently how the combination of high inflation and higher interest rates is hurting their lower-income customers. It’s the

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — A new Biden administration rule announced Thursday aims to speed up asylum processing at the southern border for a a limited group of people believed to have committed serious crimes or who have terrorist links and ultimately more quickly eject them from the country. The change comes as the administration

By Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed legislation to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program. Parson’s signature could mean Missouri joins a small band of states — Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas, according to Planned Parenthood — to have successfully blocked

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year

By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden’s federal gun case should move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday, setting the stage for the president’s son to stand trial on criminal charges next month in Delaware. Hunter Biden’s lawyers went to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the judge overseeing the case last month

By Associated Press NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s defense attorney on Thursday accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president’s hush money trial cannot be believed. “The details of your story keep changing, right?”

By Associated Press ROME — For a brief stretch on Thursday, Rafael Nadal looked every bit of a weary 37-year-old player nearing retirement. Struggling to produce pace off both sides with his groundstrokes, committing an uncharacteristically high number of unforced errors and unable to stay in rallies, Nadal dropped the first set of his first-round

By Associated Press JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally. President Joe Biden has urged Israel

By Associated Press MANCHESTER, England — FIFA has been told to reschedule its expanded Club World Cup just over a year before the tournament is due to be staged in the United States. World players’ union FIFPRO and the World Leagues Association are demanding reform of the international match calendar, which is controlled by soccer’s

By Associated Press MARSEILLE, France — Joyful crowds gathered along the streets of France’s southern port of Marseille on Thursday to see torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame through the city’s most emblematic sites, a day after it arrived on a majestic three-mast ship for a welcoming ceremony. It was the first leg of an 11-week