When Adam Magee was a freshman at Truman High School, he admits his interests included “football, motorcycles, tattoos and girls.” Today, the senior is command sergeant major with the Truman Army Junior ROTC program, which is hosting a Raider Challenge at 8 a.m. Saturday at the high school.
DEAR ABBY: A dear friend of many years is currently not speaking to me. She recently moved from California to Denver and had invited me to visit. We agreed on the dates, and I took time off work and booked the flights. Less than two weeks before my arrival, she abruptly canceled the visit, expressing no regrets or concern for whether I would be able to get a refund from the airline.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many people in the U.S. still question whether President Joe Biden is showing enough strength in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, even as most approve of steps Biden is already taking and few want U.S. troops to get involved in the conflict.
Through five innings of stellar pitching Wednesday at Blue Springs High School, it became apparent that runs were going to be at a premium. Blue Springs South’s John Chambers was matching the Wildcats starter Cole Gibler pitch for pitch in a Suburban Big Eight marquee matchup between two of the storied prep baseball programs in Eastern Jackson County.
Lunches provided by area community centers during the week of April 25. Palmer Center: 218 N.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has a COVID hotline manned from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is shutting down its CNN+ streaming service less than a month after its launch, a spectacular flameout for a venture that had attracted stars like Chris Wallace and Alison Roman and was seen as a way to attract a new generation of news consumers.
With climate change, plastic pollution and a potential sixth mass extinction, humanity has made some incredible messes in the world. But when people, political factions and nations have pulled together, they have also cleaned up some of those human-caused environmental problems, including healing the ozone hole, clearing perpetually smoggy air and saving many species from the brink of extinction.
A smaller portion of U.S. children got routine vaccinations required for kindergarten during the pandemic, government researchers said Thursday, raising concerns that measles and other preventable diseases could increase.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pledged an additional $1.3 billion Thursday for new weapons and economic assistance to help Ukraine in its strong but increasingly difficult battle against the Russian invasion, and he promised to seek much more from Congress to keep the guns, ammunition and cash flowing.