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  Tuesday night's board of aldermen meeting included a hearing about multi-family living spaces.

• Jones Theatre Company to present Cirque de Variété

  POINT LOOKOUT, MO — College of the Ozarks Jones Theater Company will present the Cirque de Variété on May 1-2, at 7:30 p.m., in the Jones Auditorium. Cirque is an annual production that allows students with a variety of talents to perform for their fellow students while gaining valuable art and entertainment experience.

• AI-generated child pornography threatens to overwhelm reporting system: Research

  (The Hill) – Child pornography generated by artificial intelligence (AI) could overwhelm an already inundated reporting system for online child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found.

• Penalties may rise for child sex crimes in Missouri

  SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Missouri House of Representatives passed a measure Monday to increase penalties for child sex crime convictions in Missouri.

• Active Weather Potential Beginning Thursday

  A frontal system brought some light rain to parts of the Lakes Region Tuesday, which is the first of several weather systems moving in according to the National Weather Service.