Forest City is a very small town of about 250 people, nestled in very small, very rural Holt County in Northwest Missouri. The whole county has about 4500…

Penny Crump sits at her desk, and opens up a lavender-colored binder she calls her “lead binder.”As the lead coordinator for Jefferson County’s Health…

While you’re reading this, Winston Kliethermes is probably thinking about batteries.He owns B & W Battery & Auto Repair in Jefferson City, and he says…

Today, Missouri is home to three major lead districts and the state has accounted for more than 90 percent of the nation’s lead production over the last…

Bill Haggard is the mayor of Herculaneum, Missouri, a town of 4,000 about a 30 minute drive south of St. Louis. He’s also the fire chief, president of the…

With a tackle box and a fishing pole, Gary Sanders baits his hook with a worm and casts his line into the river outside of Desloge, Missouri. “I caught a…