A half dozen Independence-based Baha’i faith followers gathered in a home Saturday night, quietly reciting prayers like this one as seven followers halfway across the world in Iran faced Day 1 of their trial on Sunday. They stand accused of espionage, propaganda and “spreading corruption on earth,” a crime that carries the threat of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Basketball games and individual skills play for those with special needs took place all day Saturday at Sunny Vale, Delta Woods, Moreland Ridge and Brittany Hill middle schools in the Blue Springs School District. Fort Osage, William Chrisman and Blue Springs high schools were among Eastern Jackson County schools that participated.
Anna Eager leans over the patient who is laying down on the table.
Brandon Cass of Blue Springs is considered one of the strongest men in the world, having been named an All-World power weightlifter in 2009 by the various organizations that sanction the sport. Cass, a world class power lifter, holds five world records and four world titles, among other achievements and, in 2007, became the only power lifter inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
Lisa Henning, The Examiner’s 2009 volleyball Player of the Year, is a repeat performer on the PrepVolleyball.com High School All-American team.
If there was one word to use to describe Amy Phillips, it would be “special.” Working as a special education teacher by day, Phillips will suit up on the weekend of Feb. 26 and 27 to take the ultimate plunge – into the icy February waters of Lake of the Ozarks.
Although many in the Independence community might know Shirley from the more than 20 years she owned and operated the Courthouse Exchange restaurant on the Independence Square, she likes to be known as something else: a wife, mother, grandmother and even great-grandmother. Or as Bill likes to say, a “great, great-grandmother.”
Jon Jon Fletcher is living with a time bomb in his brain stem. It's called a brain stem glioma.
An overflow crowd that spilled out of the new Blue Springs South Hall of Fame room into the commons area greeted Dominique Wright, Andrew Dougherty and Ryann Williams as they signed national letters of intent to play football at the collegiate level Friday morning.
