Paige Stuart, a freshman at Blue Springs High School who burst on the scene this season as one of the area’s premier runners, knows what it’s like to be nervous before a big event. “We were at sectionals, and I was so nervous I was shaking,” Stuart said.
Threats of a filibuster in the Missouri Senate this year extinguished a proposal to extend health care for new moms to a full year after giving birth. Few realized at the time that it also dealt a blow to a program lawmakers passed in 2018 designed to help pregnant women recover from substance abuse.
Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the coronavirus pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she decided to move there too.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year even though consumers and businesses kept spending at a solid pace, the government reported Thursday in a slight downgrade of its previous estimate for the January-March quarter.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has a COVID hotline manned from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Grain Valley Parks and Rec department has scheduled summer fun for young children and youth. Families are encouraged to register quickly.
Lunches provided by area community centers during the week of May 30. Vesper Hall: 400 N.W.
Items for the Community Calendar may be emailed to nmelton@examiner.net or mailed to: The Examiner, 300 N. Osage St., Independence, MO 64050, attention Nancy Melton. Also, check the calendar online at examiner.net.
Phone records show Sheena Greitens didn’t talk to Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell “or any person working for these men” in the weeks before she made explosive allegations of child and spousal abuse against Eric Greitens, her attorney says.
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: Conoco Food Mart: 1501 S.W.