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R-III board member urges caution on FuelEd virtual school partnership JESSICA KARINS @JDKarinsKDE
Kirksville R-III School Board members reported back from the Missouri School Board Association’s conference at their Wednesday meeting, saying it had helped them gain valuable perspective on the challenges facing Missouri schools. Board member Mikey Bishop said attending his first MSBA con-
ference was a great experience, praising the sessions he attended and the keynote speakers. “Some of it was like trying to jump on a speeding freight train and hang on, way over my head still, but I learned a lot,” Bishop said. Member Dr. Jeremy Houser said one MSBA session gave him new insight into a topic the board has been considering. “Probably the one that was most applicable to what we’ve recently
talked about was virtual education, and, dare I say, a little bit in conflict to what we’ve been presented,” Houser said. The school board voted at their last meeting to enter into the beginning stages of a partnership with FuelEducation, a division of online education company K12 Inc., to begin offering virtual education to students who are currently homeschooled. At previous meetings, school officials and a FuelEd representative have spoken
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‘Dial M For Murder’
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From left, Kyle Sterup (as Max Halliday), Phil McIntosh (as Tony Wendice) and Sarah Clark (as Margot Wendice) rehearse as scene for the Curtain Call Theatre Company’s production of the class “Dial M For Murder, which opens Friday in Kirksville. JASON HUNSICKER/DAILY EXPRESS
Curtain Call Theatre’s production of classic story opens this weekend JASON HUNSICKER @JHunsicker_KDE
With the red curtains pulled behind him, phone firmly in hand, Tony Wendice’s plan to murder his wife, Margot, takes its first step. “Dial M For Murder” isn’t a whodunnit kind of murder mystery. The players are known from
the start. The plans are in the open. The suspense in the original stage show, the classic Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation and the upcoming Curtain Call Theatre Company’s production comes from watching events unfold, wondering whether the crime will be pulled off and if the culprits will get away with it. The Curtain Call show opens
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positively about the program’s potential expansion to other students and its projected financial benefits to the district. “It felt like we got shyster-ed, we got a car salesman in front of us, giving us the ‘best thing since sliced bread’ routine,” Houser said. “Everybody in Missouri’s doing it. We’re not gonna be the first one to do it, we’re gonna be the last one to do it, from what I could garner.
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Friday and continues Saturday as well as Oct. 18, 19 and 20. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances start at 7. All shows are at the theatre’s home location of 512 W. Elizabeth St. in Kirksville. Advance tickets are available at HyVee. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door on the night of SEE MURDER, 2
(AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case about the government‘s ability to detain certain immigrants after they’ve served sentences for committing crimes in the United States. Several justices expressed concerns with the government’s reading of immigration law. Justice Stephen Breyer seemed perhaps the most sympathetic to the arguments of immigrants in the case. The immigrants, mostly green-card holders, say they should get hearings where they can argue for their release while deportation proceedings against them are ongoing. Breyer noted that the United States “gives every triple ax murderer a bail hearing.” While members of the court’s conservative majority seemed more inclined than its liberal members to back the government, both of President Donald Trump’s appointees asked questions that made it less clear how they might ultimately rule. The issue in the case before the justices has to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad range of crimes that make them deportable. Immigration law tells the government to pick those people up when they are released from federal or state prisons and jails and then hold them without bond hearings while an immigration court decides whether they should be deported. But those affected by the law aren’t always picked up immediately and are sometimes not detained until years later. They argue that unless they’re picked up essentially within a day of being released, they’re entitled to a hearing where they can argue that they SEE SCOTUS, 12
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E-911 Board asks county for funding answer within week JESSICA KARINS @JDKarinsKDE
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At their Wednesday meeting, members of the Adair County E-911 Joint Services Board expressed hopes that they would soon know how the Adair County Commission intends to fund the Center in the future. The Joint Services Board is made up of rep-
resentatives from the entities that help fund the E-911 Center and other emergency responders in Adair County. The board advised the Adair County Commission to put a $1 monthly fee on all devices that can call 911 on the November ballot, a response to a new state law that allowed municipalities to do so. The County Commission declined, saying they did not have enough information and would need to consult their attorney. They cit-
ed concerns about whether passing a new fee would automatically repeal the existing one, which only applies to landlines. Killday said the county’s attorney, Matt Wilson, has not yet given his advice on the topic. Board members were not sure whether the County Commission intended to move forward with the proposed fee or instead pursue a SEE 911, 12