Contraband and crime take toll on a community
From The Examiner during the week of Jan. 24-29, 1972: • “POLICE ARREST 27 IN DRUG RAIDS HERE” – Police rounded up 27 persons here in a series of drug raids.
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AREA COVID-19 VACCINATION SITES
All Missourians ages 5 and older (Pfizer vaccine) or 18 and older (Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines) are eligible to receive COVID vaccines without charge. If you are seeking a third dose of Pfizer or Moderna, you should first talk with your health-care provider.
Local and national history flows through a work of art
Thomas Hart Benton, one of the great artists in American history, is known to us for his mural on what used to be the entrance to the Truman Library, entitled “Independence and the Opening of the West.” Another Benton painting famous among lawyers in the Kansas City Bar is his painting “Trial by Jury.” The painting was willed by Benton to the Nelson Art Gallery and Museum.
Two men charged in shooting that wounded St. Louis officers
Authorities on Thursday identified the man killed in an exchange of gunfire with St. Louis officers that left two of them wounded, one critically.
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MO Senate panel hears pitch for using federal COVID funds
There was skepticism about new temporary state employees and the cost of developing the Rock Island railroad corridor into a new trail during the Senate Appropriation Committee’s first look at Gov. Mike Parson’s plan for spending $2.8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Nurse sentenced for rape at hospital
An Overland Park, Kansas, man who worked as a nurse at Centerpoint Medical Center will spend 20 years in state prison for raping a patient at the Independence hospital more than two years ago. A Jackson County judge Tuesday sentenced Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, 38, after finding him guilty of rape during a bench trial in November.
7 Missourians indicted in catalytic converter theft ring
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A federal grand jury has indicted seven southwest Missouri residents who allegedly stole thousands of catalytic converters and sold them to an Arkansas company for millions of dollars, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Senate eyes less toxic court fight
WASHINGTON – In a U.S. Senate that was upended by toxic Supreme Court battles during the Trump era, the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s pick has the potential for something else: a return to calmer political normalcy.
WHAT’S ON TODAY SPORTS TV/RADIO
This weekend’s sports broadcast highlights Saturday’s Television • Soccer: SPFL: Glasgow Rangers FC at Ross County FC, 6:30 a.m., CBSSN (Comcast 274) • Tennis: Australian Open women’s final (taped), 7 a.m., ESPN2 (29) • Golf: The Gainbridge LPGA, 10:30 a.m., GOLF (27) • College basketball: Duke at Louisville, 11 a.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: LSU at TCU, 11 a.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Georgetown at Butler, 11 a.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: Miami (Fla.) at Georgia Tech, 11 a.m., Bally Sports KC (48) • College basketball: La Salle at Davidson, 11 a.m., USA (52) • College wrestling: Purdue at Indiana, 11 a.m., BTN (255) • College basketball: Wichita State at Tulane, 11 a.m., ESPNU (269) • College basketball: Michigan at Michigan State, 11:30 a.m., KCTV 5 (3) • Motorsports: IMSA Sports Car Championship: Rolex 24 at Daytona, 12:30 p.m., KSHB 41 (8) • College basketball: Oklahoma at Auburn, 1 p.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: West Virginia at Arkansas, 1 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Xavier at Creighton, 1 p.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: St. Joseph’s at St.