Hayti

There's really no way to put a smiley face on this new fact. 14 Missouri places were just handed a shameful "D" grade for crime and safety and there's no silver lining to this cloud.

Even though I have been a professional broadcaster for more than 40 years, I am amazingly not a linguistic expert especially when it comes to confusing town names in Missouri. Things are sometimes said differently here and there are some Missouri places that almost everyone says wrong.