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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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President Truman remembered

Representatives of the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Leavenworth place a wreath at the gravesite of Harry Truman during Saturday’s ceremony in the courtyard at the Truman Presidential Library & Museum. In longstanding tradition, the sitting U.S. president sends a tribute wreath for the birthday for each deceased president, and the wreath is presented by a military officer and placed at the president’s tomb. Saturday’s ceremony, held a day before Truman’s 138th birthday due to Mother’s Day Sunday, was the first time the public wreath ceremony has taken place since 2019. MIKE GENET/THE EXAMINER

Legislature enters final week with long to-do list

Missouri lawmakers entered the final week of the legislative session Monday with a laundry list of unfinished business, and long-simmering tensions threatening to derail any hope of progress. After finishing work on the largest state budget in Missouri history last week, GOP super majorities in the House and Senate hoped to begin ticking through election-year priorities before the final gavel falls on the 2022 session at 6 p.m.

Couple’s honeymoon plan draws unwanted feedback

DEAR ABBY: My fiance, “Rowan,” and I are getting married this year. It is my second marriage and his first. Rowan has a young son I’ll call “Sean” from a previous relationship. I have a good relationship with Sean, and expressed to Rowan that I’d love to include Sean on our honeymoon, so we can have a proper first family vacation. (Rowan’s custody agreement states that no unmarried parties may live together when their child is present in the home.)

Hip resurfacing is another kind of hip replacement surgery

Dear Doctors: My older brother worked construction his whole life, and now he has bad arthritis in his left hip. He was in enough pain that he finally saw his doctor about it. Instead of a hip replacement, they want to do hip resurfacing. What is that? Will it be as effective as a hip replacement?

Couple reconnects but can’t rekindle the past they had

DEAR ABBY: I met a man, “Gabe,” 30 years ago. We had a very good time together. We dated some and even traveled occasionally. I liked him a lot but, when we met, I was divorced and looking for marriage. He was not. I moved for my job, and met and married someone else. Gabe did call to keep in touch for several years, but the calls stopped. I never forgot him.

Consumer health: 4 types of head and neck cancers

Head and neck cancers account for nearly 4% of all cancers in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. These cancers are more than twice as common among men as women, and are diagnosed more often among people over 50.

No signals from Putin on direction of war

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday Monday without a major new battlefield success in Ukraine to boast of, as the war ground on through its 11th week with the Kremlin’s forces making little or no progress in their offensive.

GRAIN VALLEY POLICE REPORTS

Saturday, April 30 • Citizen contact 600 block of Main St. • Disturbance 700 block of Joseph • Motor vehicle accident 1100 block of Buckner-Tarsney Road • Noise complaint Sni-A-Bar and Eagles Pkwy.

Missouri deserves better from its legislators

This is the last week of the regular session of the Missouri General Assembly, and once again election-year politics and a simple unwillingness to get the people’s work done in an orderly and deliberate manner have left much hanging until the last minute. It’s a formula for chaos, mischief and poor decision-making.