“This is a one-time Band-Aid approach to get us through,” the county’s chief administrative officer, Shelley Temple-Kneuvean, told county legislators on Monday.
The county recently sold the state a sliver of land on the edge of the Truman Sports Complex property. The state is widening Interstate 70 and needs the land. That meant a windfall to the county of $455,000.
Blue Springs Planning Commission members voted 7-1 Monday to prohibit the items, which include wheeled trailers (or semi trailers), portable storage containers and roll-off trash containers.
The Sugar Creek Board of Aldermen held off on passing an ordinance that would restrict semi-trucks driving down Sterling Avenue and Kentucky Road.
It might not come as a surprise to many in the education field to see that once again, the Missouri Legislature is discussing open enrollment.
And the Blue Springs Board of Education is making its opposition known.
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.
Jessica A. Kruger, 21, was killed early Sunday on Interstate 29 in Platte County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Police said one of the victims told officers that he had driven to a gas station at about 11:30 p.m. Thursday to help another man find a house. As they were approaching 18th Street in separate cars, one of the men noticed a black car stopped at a stop sign, turning into the lane and following them.
Edward D. Tseona crashed into and killed Greg Hawley, owner of Steamboat Arabia Museum, on I-70.
Greg Hawley never showed up for dinner with his family that evening on Jan. 10, 2009.
That was unusual, since Greg always loved eating together with his family at their Independence home, said his widow, Karen Hawley.
