Chamber honors longtime civic leader Hatley
Pat Hatley, long active in civic affairs in Blue Springs, is the Blue Springs Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen of the Year. The award was announced at the chamber’s recent annual dinner.
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Divorced father hopes to reenter daughter’s life
Dear Abby: My ex-wife and I were divorced seven years ago. It was my doing. I had two affairs, the second of which resulted in my current marriage. I have always regretted my actions and the pain it caused, and I vowed to never make that mistake again.
Untreated plantar fasciitis can cause other problems
Dear Doctors: I’m getting this sharp pain under my right heel when I step out of bed in the morning. It feels like it’s bruised, but I know I haven’t injured it. A friend who had plantar fasciitis thinks that’s what it is. Can you please explain plantar fasciitis? How do you get it to go away?
FBI chief: Threats from China reach ‘new level’
WASHINGTON – The threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” and damaging than ever before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday night in accusing Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovation and launching massive hacking operations.
African drought threatens millions
NAIROBI, Kenya – The children walk among carcasses of animals dead from hunger and exhaustion, a stark image of the drought threatening millions of people in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia have raised the alarm about the latest climate shock to a fragile region traversed by herders and others trying to keep their animals, and themselves, alive.
Denmark scraps COVID restrictions
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Denmark took the European Union lead Tuesday by scrapping most pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country no longer considers COVID-19 “a socially critical disease.” European nations elsewhere had a patchwork of different approaches, with some relaxing virus measures while others tightened them.
Lightning bolt from 2020 sets length record
A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash.
Jury questioning delayed in case related to Breonna Taylor
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jury questioning has been delayed for the trial of Brett Hankison, a former Kentucky police officer involved in a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor. Jefferson Circuit Judge Ann Bailey Smith said Tuesday that Hankison has had to have unexpected minor surgery. She said Hankison has the right to observe the jury selection process and that questioning will now begin on Thursday. Hankison has pleaded not guilty to three counts of wanton endangerment for allegedly firing wildly into the apartments.
Wisconsin Republicans seek higher bails after parade deaths
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Republicans are pushing to amend the state constitution to make it harder for criminal defendants to get out on bail, hoping to capitalize on anger over the killing of six people by a driver who was out on bail when authorities say he plowed into a Christmas parade near Milwaukee. Republicans have focused much of their anger over the Waukesha parade deaths on the $1,000 bail that Democratic Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm’s office recommended for the defendant in an earlier case.
Landslides kill at least 18 in Ecuador capital
QUITO, Ecuador – A rain-weakened hillside collapsed in Ecuador’s capital, sweeping over homes and a sports field and killing at least 18 people, rescue officials said Tuesday. The government’s emergency agency said at least three homes were destroyed and that neighbors had joined rescue workers in hunting through the ruins for survivors. The rescue agency initially reported 14 known dead, but Metropolitan District police Commander César Zapata later told Ecuavisa television that four more victims had been found.