Jean Mary McDonough, 77, a resident of Blue Springs, Mo. passed away peacefully Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at Trustwell Living Overland Park, Kan. She was born January 2, 1945 to Tyyri and Irene (Bockhaus) Kauppinen in Rhinelander, Wis.
Jurel “Bub” McCracken, Jr., 68, Clinton, June 7, 2022. .
Leann Juanita Venable, 65, of Independence, Mo. passed away June 8, 2022 surrounded by her family.
Anna Miller and Eve Green took wildly different paths to a senior year at Blue Springs South High School filled with success on and off the stage. Miller has dreamed of being a performer since she was a youngster watching musicals such as “The Wizard of Oz” and “Annie.” Green, who readily admits to battling stage fright, decided to try acting for one year, and the result was joining Miller and lighting wizards Olivia Svoboda and Addison Fox as winners of the Kansas City Cappie Awards.
While one window closes in the prep career of Van Horn High School two-sport star David Lewis, another is opening that will offer many challenges and the opportunity for success. Lewis’ story is one of redemption and perseverance as he started his prep career at Truman High School but left the Independence school after just one year.
SEATTLE — It’s hard to think that the journeyman’s journey is anywhere close to over. The pride of Mercer Island, Wash., just finished one of the NBA’s most impressive coaching stints in the past decade, even if the postseason success was lacking.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The test couldn’t have been much easier — and Facebook still failed. Facebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisements submitted to the platform by the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.
Gov. Mike Parson plans to sign legislation requiring electrical transmission line developers to pay farmers more for easements on their land, his office announced Wednesday.
VIENNA (AP) — Iran has started removing 27 surveillance cameras from nuclear sites across the country, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said Thursday, warning this could deal a “fatal blow” to the tattered nuclear deal as Tehran enriches uranium closer than ever to weapons-grade levels.