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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A measure that would allow Missouri students in struggling schools to transfer to better-performing buildings in their districts has approval from a House panel. The proposal is aimed at addressing flaws in the state's student transfer law...

The Boonslick Regional Library is always planning something to either help their patrons or to entertain their patrons.

As part of a segment he likes to call “Fifty Accents,” host Jimmy Fallon set Dornan up with a “randomly chosen” (sure) accent and a passage from the E.L. James book that became a “global phenomenon.” It's both raunchy and weird, but at least it shows off a little bit of Dornan's range in a way that's (mostly) PG.

The woman who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird' will publish her second novel more than 50 years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning book was first released.

Sometimes life throws you curveballs and sometimes you respond to the curve and othertimes you just keep swinging away. This may be the mantra that Dennis Rich, former Sedalia Democrat editor, is enduring. He left the Democrat to go to New Orleans along with a friend, Terrence Arnold...

Winter Reading is here!  The Sedalia Public Library has a new and interesting theme for their program, all to encourage kids to keep reading.

This fall, DC Collectibles' Batman: The Animated Series line will continue to expand its roster of rogues with the additions of Roxy Rocket and Scarecrow. While Roxy has her own appeal, it's The New Adventures of Batman version of Scarecrow -- as the first deluxe figure of the collection -- that will by far give you way more nightmares. Based on his appearance in 'Never Fear', the Scarecrow is the first figure from the anticipated fifth wave of B:TAS figures. Though that episode is decent, it's no match for 'Over the Edge' (the one where Batgirl has a fevered dream about what'd happen if she died in the line of duty), which came just five episodes later. Still, the most important thing is the incredibly terrifying Scarecrow design that's being brought to life. The original Scarecrow design was brilliant, if a bit too Wizard of Oz, but this version... this is a Scarecrow you actually believed might inspire fear.

One of the things we always stress to little ones is to read and keep reading.  And that's great, it's absolutely essential.  But the kids aren't the only ones who need to read.

Sometimes I know some of us will be clicking along on our social media accounts, and you'll see one of those Inspirational Quotes. It used to be a thing where there were those motivational posters, remember those?

Having gone on an unexpected journey and endured the desolation of Smaug, Peter Jackson’s bloated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ finally comes to ‘The Battle of the Five Armies,’ which is less of a climax to this trilogy than a distended epilogue. After spending two movies and 330 minutes building up the dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) as the ultimate antagonist, he’s eliminated from the story completely in the first ten minutes. He’s literally gone before the title appears onscreen.