The annual Trash Bash encourages people to clean up litter across Missouri from roadsides, parks, neighborhoods, rivers, streams, trails and other places. Trash Bash activities in April also include educational efforts in schools, community events and Earth Day celebrations.
Each year, MoDOT alone spends about $6 million to remove litter from more than 385,000 acres of roadsides along 34,000 state highway miles. Annual volunteer efforts to pick up litter along Missouri highways are valued at $1 million.
Last year, more than 60,000 bags of litter and several truckloads of debris were picked up during the one month Trash Bash. People also attended numerous educational events stressing the importance of not littering. Volunteers participated through Adopt-A-Highway and Stream Team litter cleanup events. Missouri Stream Team Program volunteers removed 581 tons of litter from waterways and dedicated over $1.8 million worth of volunteer time to annual statewide litter removal.
Littering isn't just ugly, it also hurts wildlife and Missouri outdoors.
Volunteers are needed across the state to participate in litter cleanup activities. Participants can report their cleanup efforts and will receive a thank you No MOre Trash! pin.
For more information and to learn how to participate, visit www.nomoretrash.org or call 1-888-ASK-MODOT (1-888-275-6636).
Potosi, Missouri - Authorities in Missouri are searching for a former football player for Washburn and the University of Kansas. He also has friends living in southeast Missouri and the Dexter area.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol posted a missing person's report that said 24-year-old Brandon Kyle Bourbon has been missing since Saturday, April 2, 2016.
Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Zach Jacobsen said Tuesday that Bourbon's family last saw him Saturday evening in the Potosi area, where his family lives. He says Bourbon's car, a silver minivan, is also missing, and that Bourbon's phone is off.
Bourbon played football for Kansas until 2014, and transferred to Washburn for the 2015 season.
Jacobsen says since leaving college, Bourbon has been living in the Potosi area. He says authorities don't suspect foul play but are concerned because it's out of character for Bourbon to leave without contacting his family.
If you have any information please contact local authorities.
Dexter, Missouri - Lt. Josh Benton with the Dexter Police Department will be joining efforts with statewide law enforcement on April 14th for an aggressive “Click It or Ticket” mobilization to get more motorists to buckle up — and save more lives.
Despite evidence proving the benefits of wearing a seat belt, 20% of Missouri motorists are still not making it click. Even worse, 63% of occupants killed in crashes in Missouri were unrestrained.
“Local motorists should be prepared for stepped up Click It or Ticket enforcement,” said Lieutenant Benton. “We’ll be out there to remind you seat belts can – and do – save lives.”
Buckle Up and Arrive Alive. For information on Missouri seat belt usage, visit www.saveMOlives.com.
Booneville, Missouri - WOULD ALL MY FRIENDS HERE PLEASE SHARE THIS? THANK YOU Robert and Sherry Meyers of Essex.
My son Robert Myers III was last seen the early morning hours 3:30 am on Wednesday March 2nd leaving his house in Sikeston, MO headed to Boonville, MO for drill. He never made it. He is driving a white 90s model Buick Lasaber four door Mo license is all I can tell you. Police report has been filed.
Submitted by Sherry Jones Meyers of Essex
Please contact local authorities if you have any information. Thank you!
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an endangered person advisory for a missing St. Louis woman possibly headed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
According to the highway patrol, Jessica Nole, 23, left a group home on West Pine in St. Louis on Feb. 21 to walk to Schnucks on Lindell Blvd. They say she talked to a security officer at the store and has not been seen since.
They say Nole is on medication and does not have the ability to take care of herself.
She may be en route to Cape Girardeau or Fredericktown.
Nole is 5'2" and 230 pounds. She had blonde hair, brown eyes, fair complexion and tattoos on both arms and her neck. Nole was wearing a pink tank top, blue jean capris and tennis shoes.
According to the highway patrol, she responds to the name "Jessi" not "Jessica."
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 immediately or the nearest law enforcement agency.
