From The Examiner during the week of May 1-6, 1972: “INDEPENDENCE RESIDENTS NUMBER 115,170” – The population of Independence is now 115,170, the city’s planning department has estimated. The figure, based on city power and light company connect and disconnects, represents an increase of 1,324 persons since last year.
It was a dramatic moment for U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war.
After Thursday’s game against Truman, William Chrisman senior Emma Gervy put on a pair of orange sunglasses. It was a chilly, cloudy night with rain in the forecast and the sun was nowhere in sight.
In 2022, the multiverse is seemingly everywhere (all at once) on movie screens, including, of course, in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” the sequel to 2016’s “Doctor Strange.” The film sees snarky superhero surgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) back in action, though he never really went away, as we saw him just last Christmas in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” This time, the good doctor tangles with the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), so here’s to hoping you’re all caught up on “Wandavision” on Disney+. Strange finds himself crashing through the multiverse while trying to save a scrappy new kid, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), from the Scarlet Witch’s grasp.
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers added 428,000 jobs in April, extending a streak of solid hiring that has defied punishing inflation, chronic supply shortages, the Russian war against Ukraine and much higher borrowing costs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration sought Friday to downplay the role of American intelligence in the high-profile sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva, distancing itself from any direct role in one of the greatest embarrassments for Russia since it attacked Ukraine.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27 Alarm • 200 block of Sni A Bar Area check • 200 block of Cannon Identity theft • 1400 block of N.W. Willow Dr.
It’s been a bit of a bad week for the legal system, both locally and on a national level. Of note locally is the Missouri case of Carman Deck, who was convicted of murder in 1998, a brutal murder of an innocent couple in De Soto, Missouri occurring in 1996.
B R O O K L Y N CENTER, Minn. (AP) — The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a suburban Minneapolis police officer, said she was injured while she was briefly detained by one of the same department’s officers after she stopped to record an arrest of a person during a traffic stop.
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss police say an investigation is underway after workers at a Nespresso warehouse in western Switzerland found 500 kilograms (over 1,100 pounds) of cocaine, with a street value of $50 million, as they unloaded coffee beans that had arrived by train.