We’ll see if the release of oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve – a million gallons a day for six months – will do much to continue to bring down the price of gas. President Biden ordered the move last week and urged domestic oil producers to get to work on the thousands of federal oil-and-gas leases they are holding but not using.
FRIDAY, MARCH 18 Arrest • 2:35 p.m., 8800 block of E. First St.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 Agency assist, Central Jackson County Fire Protection District: • 400 block of Coldwater Creek Alarm: • 1200 block of N.W. Burr Oak Lane Area check: • Main and RR tracks Citizen contact: • 700 block of N.
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russians of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one established at Nuremberg after World War II.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A second suspect arrested Tuesday in connection with the mass shooting that killed six people in Sacramento had posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun hours before gunfire erupted, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should look at the development of more bases in Eastern Europe to protect against Russian aggression, but rotate forces through them rather than make permanent deployments, the top U.S military officer told Congress on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she’ll become the first Black female justice.
BEIJING (AP) — The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday.
Bernice (Godman) Kilbourn, 90 passed away peacefully surrounded by family Thursday March 31, 2022 in Independence, Missouri. Bernice was a devoted wife and mother having 4 daughters and 1 son. Bernice was preceded in death by her devoted husband Norman Frederick Kilbourn and seven Brothers and Sisters. Bernice is survived by her daughters Debra Hamilton, Karen Richardson, Julie Miller (husband Ron Miller, son Kevin Kilbourn (wife Stephanie Kilbourn) stepdaughter Carol Taylor and 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Edith Emily Hicks, 98, of Oak Grove, Missouri passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, April 1, 2022. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 2pm at Speaks Suburban Chapel in Independence, Missouri.