Municipal jurisdictions with planning and zoning rules are grappling with how to handle Missouri's voter-approved medical marijuana law. Local governments are trying to decide how they'll regulate the dispensaries. Some want to prevent these entities from being close to schools, day cares and churches, presuming that the sale and purchasing of marijuana, still illegal at the federal level, may have detrimental effects to places where children will be. ...

I'm in my 70s and most people of my generation were taught to be very courteous on the telephone, especially to callers. Therefore, it was very hard to learn to hang up on liars, scammers, telemarketers, identity thieves, etc. But we have to. Most of the calls we get now on our land lines come from scoundrels of some sort. ...

My wife and I were some the lucky recipients of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper Catfish Baseball Ticket contest. We were given tickets for the...