Tagged: ryan famuliner

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• An update on which cities will have their fireworks displays tonight, and which won't because of dry conditions.
• Mo Republicans cry foul over Secretary of State's ballot summaries
• A story from a 4th of July event put on by Mormon Congregations in Columbia

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Cell phones can now be put on MO's no-call list.
• A bank robbery in Columbia put schools on modified lockdown this afternoon
• The VA hospital in Columbia is hiring new mental health workers
• Jefferson City public schools is putting its 500,000 new state dollars to use.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Governor Nixon signs a law aiming to make college transfers easier
• The flights between Columbia and Atlanta begin
• Attempts to remedy that state education funding formula
• Rural MO post offices get a reprieve

For major league baseball fans, this next week is an important one. Pitchers and catchers report for spring training and players at the rest of the positions follow suit in the coming weeks. But each year, hundreds of baseball fans get an even earlier start…at baseball fantasy camps. KBIA’s Ryan Famuliner is one of those people. He shares his story of a week of baseball spent in Surprise, Arizona.

This week: KBIA spoke with a director of the center of Agro Forestry at the University of Missouri on why the state isn't using biomass as a renewable energy source. Plus, one company is hiring people with degrees you wouldn't expect.

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Republican challengers to Claire McCaskill debate in forum
• State bill aims to prevent Gov. Nixon from creating a federally mandated health care exchange
• School board wants voters to eliminate trailers in public schools