A Lafayette County woman faces up to five years in federal prison after she failed to pay nearly $2 million in payroll and employment taxes from her Eastern Jackson County business over four years. Sandra Eller, 59, waived her right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty last week in federal court in Kansas City to a charge of failure to truthfully account for and pay federal income taxes and payroll taxes.
Two Independence men were killed in separate metro are motorcycle crashes last weekend. One crash happened about 6:30 p.m.
Now look, while we’re on the subject of debt forgiveness… I’m all for giving kids a good start in life, the best education possible, the best life lessons to learn and all of that. But to hear that we are all going to be kicking into the can to forgive student loans, some up into the middle six-digits, makes me, as a Twilight Member, or senior citizen if you will, want to leap up and down and wave my hands in the air, yelling “what about us?” As we romp toward tax time, it made me think on other taxes.
There is no such thing as a free lunch! Someone pays for everything. Beginning with that truth, today I will discuss the modern world of community growth and development. It applies to all of us whether we live in a major city, its suburbs, or in a rural county. But the focus is upon the EastGate project in eastern Independence proposed by Riversidebased national developer, NorthPoint Development.
It was my fault for ordering fast-food coffee in the first place, but I did not expect to be summarily rebuffed. We don’t make coffee after 10:30 in the morning, the voice on the drive-through box said.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday that Russia’s bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and significant losses.
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people Tuesday, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform as others ran screaming, authorities said. Police were still searching for the shooter.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was visiting corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce he’ll suspend a federal rule and allow the sale of higher-ethanol gasoline this summer, trying to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war in Ukraine.
LICKING, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man whose murder conviction was overturned walked out of prison Monday after serving 18 years.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday sentenced two men and a woman from Missouri to several weeks in jail for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building.