Lucas Kunce bets on outspoken populist message
PERRYVILLE, Mo. — Lucas Kunce’s life story seems built for a populist Senate campaign in Missouri.
July 2022
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Police OT report cites ‘communications’
A severe breakdown in communication between the Independence Police Department and City Hall led to officers – one in particular – accumulating significant overtime pay to complete a police headquarters renovation project that should have been bid out, a special investigator says.
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Independence opens center as a cooling site Due to this week’s extreme heat, the city of Independence will have the Sermon Community Center, 201 N. Dodgion St., at the corner of Noland and Truman roads, available as a cooling site 8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Desperate measures for desperate times
Long story short. Ish. Our cats used to like tuna. Now they don’t. I came to this realization, naturally, just after I bought four large cans of the stuff. Do Sir and I eat tuna? Not really. Hence – a dilemma.
Coeanna Mary Obermeyer
Coeanna Mary Obermeyer, 94, of Independence, MO, passed away Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at Oak Ridge Assisted Living Center in Richmond. Coeanna was born on January 5, 1928, in Kansas City,…
Jaguars’ Smith earns All-America honors
Elle Smith, a fouryear letter winner and two-time state champion for the Blue Springs South High school softball team, had one final opportunity to thank her coaches and teammates after she became the first player in South softball history to earn All-American status.
Grain Valley grad Misiorowski goes 63rd overall to Brewers
Grain Valley High School graduate Jacob Misiorowski finally heard his name called in the Major League Baseball amateur draft. The Crowder College pitcher was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers with the 63rd overall pick in the 20222 draft that began Sunday night in Los Angeles.
What’s missing from the 77-minute Uvalde video?
It’s not easy to make sense of the 77-minute video shot from an overhead camera near the classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were murdered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. The video — released last week by the Austin American-Statesman — has an audio track that is garbled to near-unintelligibility.
BS South grad has hand in All-Star Game
E.J. Merlo brings the same passion that made him a stellar two-sport athlete at Blue Springs South High School to his new job as an account manager for Aeroform Athletics, the Kansas City-based company that now supplies the batting practice platform for the All-Star Game Home Run Derby.
Schatz says voters are looking for common sense
Dave Schatz hopes his achievements speak for themselves. He sponsored the first gas tax increase since the early ’90s that will infuse about $1.8 billion toward Missouri’s crumbling highways and roads and helped shepherd the passage of Missouri’s trigger law banning nearly all abortions.