Dear Abby: My 25-year-old son is a single father of three boys, 6, 4 and almost 3. They have been living with me, my youngest and my husband in a two-bedroom house for a while now, and I’m not happy with my life.
Dear Doctors: Would you please address the damaging effects of wearing extremely high heels? I think younger women need to know how this can cause them painful foot problems as they grow older. It seems a high price to pay for fashion.
A thick blanket of fallen leaves completely covered the hikers’ feet on Turkey Ridge Trail in St. Louis County.
There is no greater honor than being named the captain of a team, by your peers and coaches. However, it comes with some heavy baggage, like trying to explain how one of the most talented – on paper – teams in Kansas City Mavericks franchise history could have lost its fifth consecutive home game Tuesday night.
Children were able to visit Santa Claus after he arrived in the Santa Bus shortly after the lights went on. PHOTOS BY MIKE GENET/INDEPENDENCE EXAMINER Retired longtime city parks employee Randy Cooper, whom Mayor Carson Ross noted had helped set up the tree lighting ceremony for many years, was Ross' honorary guest to flip the big switch for the lights.
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Ten months after a group of Senate Democrats lodged ethics complaints into the conduct of Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas regarding their roles in sparking the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the Senate Ethics Committee has shown no sign of movement. Both senators tell Politico they haven’t even been contacted by the committee.
This column, a reader favorite, was first published in 1993. My brother had a driving passion for cars.
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To win re-election next April, Independence's mayor and at-large City Council members will first have to go through primary elections. Six mayoral candidates and five council at-large candidates filed candidacy forms and the necessary signatures before last week's deadline to be on the ballot, including two-term Mayor Eileen Weir and incumbent council members Karen DeLuccie and Mike Huff.