Southwest Missouri State Farm agents present a check March 31 for $25,000 to the staff of Missouri Safe and Sober at Springfield Catholic High School. Used to create a comprehensive roadway safety program for teen drivers, the grant is awarded to organizations working in the areas of safety, education and community development.

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Life360 Church Pastor Ted Cederblom, right, hands over the campus keys to New Covenant Academy Chief Academic Officer Matt Searson. The private Christian school closed on the purchase of Life360 Church’s nearby Park Crest campus April 1. New Covenant plans to convert the 9.7-acre Life360 campus with a 44,000-square-foot church building, 3581 S. Kansas Ave., into a school for fifth-eighth graders. Life360 is under contract to buy the Palace Springfield theater building in Chesterfield Village.

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