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Thursday, Jan. 6 Abandoned vehicle • 11 a.m., S.W.

SEATTLE – Seattle’s elected prosecutor on Monday promised quicker charging decisions to help tackle persistent lowlevel crime that’s plagued businesses downtown. City Attorney Ann Davison, a Republican who won election in November over progressive former public defender Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, said her office will make charging decisions on all incoming cases within five business days.

The acting chief of police in Independence has been placed on paid administrative leave as part of the city’s investigation into overtime pay in the police department discovered last week. City Manager Zach Walker an nounced Monday that an employee of the Independence Police Department had been placed on leave.

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Supreme Court judges on Monday heard arguments in a lawsuit seeking to strike down a new state law barring local police from enforcing federal gun laws. A lawyer for St.

Most Jackson County legislators say they are running for re-election this year, but at least two plan to leave. County Executive Frank White Jr. said he’s running again, and he appears to have at least one Republican challenger.

Assuming that all U.S. schools are still teaching some American and world history, it appears that some of our young adults just did not understand it. Or perhaps it is logic and critical thinking they have missed. According to the Gallup Organization, since 2010, about 50 percent of our young adult’s view socialism positively.

On Jan. 9, Autumn Freitag, age 12, was hit by a pickup truck when crossing Missouri 58 near Belton. She was seriously injured and has required blood transfusions as well as transfusions of blood products such as platelets and plasma.