“Graves had been misidentified, remains had been buried someplace other than where families had been told they had been buried.”
McCaskill says there may be even more graves that have been mishandled at Arlington National Cemetery than the 66 hundred that were brought to light.
“Information has now surfaced that potentially many more graves had been mishandled.”
McCaskill said she wants an immediate report from Secretary of the Army John McHugh where things stand with respect to fixing the mess at Arlington.
Archives for March 2011
McCaskill Calls for Report on Mess At Arlington
Moberly Assault Leads to Charges, Hopsitalization
Storm Spotter Class Next Wednesday
Topics covered will include:
* Under what conditions to thunderstorms develop
* What makes one thunderstorm severe and another not
* How to visually identify and report severe weather
* How to stay safe during severe weather
At the conclusion of the training, you will have the option of registering with the National Weather Service to be an official severe storm spotter.
ATSU Merges Libraries
KPD Looking for Fugitive
Police are looking for Tom “Willie” Branch the Third. He’s an 21 year old African American man with black hair and brown eyes. He’s 5’2″, 130 pounds. Branch has a tattoo on the right side of his neck that reads “Malikia”, a tattoo on the inside of his right forearm that reads “Mikhal” and a tattoo on the inside of his left forearm that reads “Tiffany.” Police have tried to serve warrants on Branch at his last known address in Kirksville, but have not found him. He’s wanted for possession of a controlled substance, and driving with a suspended license. If you know how to find Willie Branch, call police.
House Sends Budget to Senate
The House passed the 13 bills of the budge yesterday, and in those bills, how the state is expected to spend tax dollars. Three billion dollars of the budget is for school funding, and 189 million dollars is from federal funding. Another 12 million dollars will go to Prepare to Care, which is a grant to fund health care as it relates to education. Nearly 8.5 billion dollars will go to Medicaid, another half a billion dollars more than this year’s Medicaid spending. Tax revenues are expected to be up in fiscal 2011. Governor Nixon has seen to it that the state will have a balance to start fiscal 2011. He did away with funding some programs to put 200 million dollars into the general fund,and with the 277 million left from the last budget, there are dollars to start the new year with in July..
How Healthy is Your County?
The study has been done by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
The report highlights differences between the two counties–45 percent of children in Pemiscot County live in poverty, more than three times the percentage in Christian County. More than one-fourth of the Pemiscot County adults say they are in poor or fair health, more than double the rate in Christian County. Pemiscot County has a teen birth rate more than double the rate in Christian County and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases in Pemiscot County is five times the rate in Christian County.
The top ten counties, as rated by the survey, are Christian, Platte, St., Charles, Johnson, Atchison, Ralls, Osage, Clay, Moniteau, and Boone. The ten least healthy counties (starting with last and working back): Pemiscot, Dunklin, Ripley, New Madrid, Reynolds, Butler, Washington, Iron, Wayne, and the city of St. Louis.
The study considers four categories of factors–health behavior, clinical care social and economic factors, and physical environment.
Want to see how your county faired? Go to this website and click on your county to see the specifics. (www.countyhealthrankings.org/missouri)