Dumped or destroyed: grim future for many a puppy in the window (Muswellbrook Chronicle)

IT WOULD be a hard heart that could resist the sight of puppies tumbling over one another in a pet shop window.

State budget shortfall forces hard choices for education, others (The Joplin Globe)

“Conservative” may be the word in 2009 for Missouri schools, businesses and municipalities bracing to see how a projected $342 million shortfall in the state’s budget will affect them.

Lions, Gorillas clash at MSSU (The Joplin Globe)

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Financing, collection top complaint list (The Joplin Globe)

Complaints about financing, and credit and debt collection in 2008 topped the Missouri Attorney General’s list of most common consumer complaints in the state for the second year in a row.

Master Gardener class on tap (The Joplin Globe)

The only green things in back yards right now is discarded Christmas trees, but that isn’t stopping the University of Missouri Extension office in Carthage from preparing for another round of Master Gardener classes, starting Jan. 26.