A person fired shots at a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper and hit the trooper’s car Saturday evening in Grain Valley, though the trooper was not injured. Troopers later located the suspect vehicle from what started as a traffic stop, but as of Monday they were still looking for what were believed to be three suspects, a Highway Patrol spokesperson said .
The Jackson County Environmental Health Division inspects sites where food is served outside Independence and Kansas City. Recent inspection results in Blue Springs are as follows: • Tropical Smoothie Cafe: 706 N.
LOS ANGELES -- On a Wednesday morning, nearly a dozen women gathered on Santa Monica beach. Their routine was consistent: They’d do a grounding exercise and focus on the present moment before pulling on their wetsuits and grabbing surfboards, heading into the water to face whatever the ocean brought them that day.
On a dark-and-rainy night, a woman kneels before a gravestone as a menacing cloaked figure towers above her, an unnaturally long, boney finger extended toward her. She grovels — and complains a little — before sinking into the ground completely.
Blue Springs South freshman participates in YNT camp to identify players for national soccer teams Mary Hoffman became an immediate favorite as she brought her enthusiasm and love of the game to the Class 5 state champion Blue Springs South High School softball team as a freshman. She is now a member of the Jaguar basketball team and in the spring will turn up the intensity for the South soccer team.
Fourth and fifth graders at Luff Elementary in Independence help out Wayside Waifs Fourth and fifth graders at Luff Elementary in Independence finished a special art project this week, one designed to raise money for Wayside Waifs. The artwork, some digital portraits and some paintings, is based on pictures of dogs and cats up for adoption at Wayside Waifs.
No matter who fired the missile that struck inside Poland’s border, “Russia bears ultimate responsibility for this incident.” Those are the words of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin during a press conference on Wednesday, and he is right on. He added that, should the missile turn out to be an off-course Ukrainian defense weapon, “Ukraine has a bedrock right to defend itself.” Indeed.
Governor Parson, I apologize in writing to you, once again, to ask for your intervention. My daughter Kelsey receives services through Missouri’s Department of Health Division of Developmental Disabilities.
Seniors Jared Esquivel Olivas and Cathryne Maxey have been selected as the Rotary Students of the Month at Truman High School. Jared has participated in soccer at Truman High School for three years.
When I woke up this morning and hobbled into the bathroom my body mumbled, “you’re old,” while my mind said, “I don’t want to be.” If I eat right, exercise and lose weight I could be good to go for another couple decades, or I could eat chocolate chip cookies, click my heels three times and wish on a falling star. Sixty-two years ago, my parents were trying to get over the shock they were having another baby.