Grain Valley all-state junior Grace Slaughter kept an impressive streak alive Monday. The guard, who helped Team USA to a gold medal in the FIBA Americas U16 Women’s Championship this summer, poured in 35 points in a little more than three quarters of action to lead the Eagles to a 60-27 rout of Belton in their Suburban Middle Six Conference opener.
The Blue Springs South girls swimming and diving team claimed only two event wins Saturday but had enough depth to sweep the five-team field. The Jaguars edged Staley 860-841 and also defeated Kearney (1,042-615), Oak Park (1,077.5-367.5) and North Kansas City (1,085-315) at the Gladstone Community Center.
Fort Osage claimed two individual titles and three runner-up finishes to capture second place in the Grain Valley Wrestling Invitational Saturday. The Indians, led by titles from Colby Gray (120 pounds) and Stevie Gabb (285), compiled 208.5 points to finish behind only Liberty North (283).
It didn’t take long for the New England Patriots to become the New England Patriots again. After stumbling through a 7-9 season last year while watching Tom Brady win a seventh ring in his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bill Belichick’s squad is once again the class of the AFC.
Derrick Henry and Tyrann Mathieu, 2020 All-Pro players, are among the 32 men chosen as finalists for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award. Each of the teams nominated one player for the prestigious honor named for the late Payton, a Hall of Fame running back for the Bears.
Have you ever come across the British cartoonist Heath Robinson? His drawings were of fabulously weird and wonderful inventions that could never in a million years actually work, but they are so brilliant you just wish they could. Look him up – I know it will please you.
Monday, Nov. 15 Arrest • 12:58 a.m., 800 block of N.
BOISE, Idaho – More than a dozen environmental groups on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Idaho’s recently expanded wolf trapping and snaring regulations. The Center for Biological Diversity and others in the lawsuit filed against Republican Gov.
After a Cole County circuit judge ruled two weeks ago that public health orders from state and local health departments meant to fight the spread of COVID-19 were invalid, local public health officials had been reviewing the decision or awaiting further developments.
Sean Putney, the chief zoological officer of the Kansas City Zoo, will be the zoo’s new executive director/CEO. Putney will take over Jan.