COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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BLUE SPRINGS POLICE REPORTS
Saturday, Jan. 1 Civil matter • 9 p.m., 2500 block of S.W.
INDEPENDENCE RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS
Critical violations involve factors that can directly lead to foodborne illness and must be corrected within 72 hours or as otherwise stated. All critical violations must be corrected within 72 hours (or as otherwise stated on the report). All non-critical violations must be corrected by the next regular inspection (or as otherwise stated on the report).
JACKSON COUNTY RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS – GRAIN VALLEY
The Jackson County Environmental Health Division inspects sites where food is served outside independence and Kansas City. Recent inspection results in Grain Valley include: Burger King: 1120 N.W.
Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs not new
NEW YORK – Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. “These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people.
UNICEF: Kids should not be in Syria prison
BEIRUT – Children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions and they should not have been there in the first place, the U.N. children’s agency said Sunday.
COVID-19 cases still high, still falling
New COVID-19 cases in the area continue to decrease from the pandemic highs reached last month. According to the Jackson County Health Department’s dashboard, the case rate Monday in Eastern Jackson County – the county outside of Kansas City and Independence – was at 483 per 100,000 in population over seven days, down from 787 last week and 1,200-plus the two weeks before that.
US farm income expected to take a big hit in 2022
DES MOINES, Iowa – U.S. farmers can expect income from crops and livestock production to tumble, with costs spiking and government payments falling, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a forecast for 2022.
Talks on Ukraine move to Moscow, Washington
MOSCOW – International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron holding talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as fears of a Russian invasion mounted.
Fred Mills remembered for service and integrity
Sometimes, while addressing others on the job, Travis Forbes realizes that he’s channeling his former boss from the Independence Police Department, Fred Mills. “His voice kind of rings through your head, and I find myself using some of the same terminology he would use,” said Forbes, who rose through the ranks at IPD and became Lee’s Summit’s police chief in 2014.