Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows.
The hometown Grain Valley student section was on its feet, cheering and doing everything possible to distract Treycee Brown, as the Ewing Marion Kauffman Charter guard stepped to the free throw with the game on the line.
A Jackson County judge found an Overland Park, Kansas, man who worked as a nurse at Centerpoint Medical Center guilty of first-degree rape of a patient at the Independence hospital more than two years ago.
Lunches provided by area community centers during the week of Dec. 6.
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With the nation’s first case of omicron identified in California and a case verified in Minnesota, public and private labs nationwide are scouring virus samples to learn how far the new coronavirus variant has traveled.
WASHINGTON – Symone Sanders, Vice President Kamala Harris’ chief spokesperson and senior adviser, is leaving the White House at the end of the year, according to an administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the announcement.
The Central Jackson County Emergency Management Agency says its upgraded storm siren system will give residents more automatic and geographically accurate severe weather warnings. The agency covers Blue Springs, Grain Valley and Lake Tapawingo and portions of unincorporated Jackson County that are within the Central Jackson County Fire Protection District.
JEFFERSON CITY – At a time when the coronavirus remains a formidable threat, Missouri lawmakers are poised to debate a number of proposals that could affect efforts to get more people vaccinated. On Wednesday, the first day that members of the House and Senate could file legislation for the upcoming session, more than a half dozen bills were introduced that could prohibit vaccine mandates or allow "natural immunity" to be considered the equivalent of having been inoculated.
McKenah Sears had a good laugh when the Grain Valley sophomore was asked if she, Finley LaForge and Grace Slaughter have been working on ESP (extra sensory perception). The question came after a 63-44 Grain Valley girls basketball victory over Raymore-Peculiar in the final pool play game of the 42nd annual Winnetonka Tournament, in which Slaughter scored 42 points, with most of them coming off pinpoint passes from her backcourt mates.