JACKSON, MO (KFVS) - The Leadership Jackson graduation is Wednesday at Kimbeland Country Club from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Jackson Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Brian Gerau says the keynote speaker will be Southeast Missouri State's Head Basketball Coach Dickey Nutt.

Graduates will receive their plaque and yearbook at the ceremony.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - The Southeast Missouri State University women's athletic programs worked with the 5th Annual March of Dimes Golf Tournament at Cape Girardeau County Club on Monday afternoon.

“It was a great opportunity for us to partner up with the March of Dimes and get our student-athletes engaged with the community at such a great event,” said Interim Director of Athletic Cindy Gannon.

The university says the Walk for Women's Athletics sponsored a hole during the event that helped raise money for the March of Dimes Foundation of Southeast Missouri.

The March of Dimes Foundation is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.

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(KFVS) - The Missouri State Highway Patrol joins the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and other safety advocates for National Child Safety Passenger Week September 18 through 24.

The State Highway Patrol says the primary goal of this program is to remind all parents and other adults responsible for children traveling in cars the importance of child safety seats and seat belts. The patrol says every year children suffer needless injuries. In 2010, eight children under the age of eight were killed in a traffic crash and another 1,630 were injured.

Troopers issued citations to 2,130 drivers who failed to secure children less than eight years old in a child restraint/booster seat in 2010.