Blue Springs police investigate homicide; one in custody Blue Springs police said Friday they had a person in custody as they continued to investigate a fatal shooting Thursday afternoon. The shooting happened in the 100 block of Southwest Gladstone Drive, at the intersection with Southwest Keystone Drive in a neighborhood east of Missouri 7.
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing intense pushback from all corners of Washington after calling for the Russian people to end the Ukraine war by assassinating President Vladimir Putin. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that it is “not the position of the United States government.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world racked up more losses Friday, as even a gangbusters report on the U.S. jobs market can’t pull Wall Street’s focus off its worries about the war in Ukraine.
Maximo Canul and Rhiannon Blackburn have been named the Rotary Students of the Month at Van Horn High School. Maximo has participated in building sets for theater productions at his school.
Cooking styles come and go in spurts at our house. I enjoy paging through cooking magazines with creative ideas by other cooks. However, in the midst of an intense life of homeschooling three and mothering six young children, I rarely have or take the time to make extravagant dishes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and will declare that “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin” as he further cements his break from former President Donald Trump.
Although President Biden’s initial budget request for fiscal year 2022 included a significant reduction in spending for small-caliber ammunition for the Army, the operators of Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence are “encouraged” by later actions in Washington D.C., that the plant’s workforce will not be affected.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A student shot and wounded an administrator and a school resource officer Friday at Olathe East High School. The student was wounded when the officer returned fire, authorities said.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn yet in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Although an Independence Planning Commission hearing has been pushed back and a small portion of land has been removed from the rezoning requests, a large proposed development in the Little Blue River valley remains up for consideration.