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WHAT’S ON TODAY
Today’s sports broadcast highlights Tuesday’s Television • Tennis: ATP Pune/ATP Montpelier, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • Hockey: CHL: Tappara Tampere at Red Bull Munich, 11 a.m., NHLN (276) • Tennis: ATP Montpelier, 12:30 p.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • College basketball: Boston College at Virginia, 5 p.m., ACCN (961) • College basketball: Creighton at Connecticut, 5:30 p.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: Kansas at Iowa State, 6 p.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: Michigan State at • College basketball: Michigan State at Maryland, 6 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Rutgers at Northwestern, 6 p.m., BTN (255) • College basketball: South Carolina at Mississippi State, 6 p.m., ESPNU (269) • College basketball: Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m., CBSSN (274) • College basketball: Texas A&M at Tennessee, 6 p.m., SECN (284) • NBA: Washington at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m., TNT (51) • College basketball: North Carolina at Louisville, 7 p.m., ACCN (961) • College basketball: Seton Hall at Georgetown, 7:30 p.m., FS1 (43) • College basketball: Alabama at Auburn, 8 p.m., ESPN (13) • College basketball: Texas at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPN2 (29) • College basketball: Nebraska at Michigan, 8 p.m., BTN (255) • College basketball: Tulsa at Wichita State, 8 p.m., ESPNU (269) • College basketball: Providence at St.
Library offers steps toward wellness
Among many things spurred by the pandemic, telehealth sessions have become more common, as people communicate remotely with their doctor or primary-care provider for normal checkups. To help people prepare for such sessions, or simply monitor their own health, the Mid-Continent Public Library is lending wellness kits as part of its “Access Wellness” initiative, funded by a state library grant that stemmed from last year's American Rescue Plan, a pandemic-relief bill passed by Congress.
Local and national history flows through a work of art
Thomas Hart Benton, one of the great artists in American history, is known to us for his mural on what used to be the entrance to the Truman Library, entitled “Independence and the Opening of the West.” Another Benton painting famous among lawyers in the Kansas City Bar is his painting “Trial by Jury.” The painting was willed by Benton to the Nelson Art Gallery and Museum.
NATION & WORLD WATCH
Dole’s burial Wednesday in Arlington National Cemetery TOPEKA, Kan. – The late Bob Dole, a former U.S.
Two men charged in shooting that wounded St. Louis officers
Authorities on Thursday identified the man killed in an exchange of gunfire with St. Louis officers that left two of them wounded, one critically.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Items for the Community Calendar may be emailed to nmelton@examiner.net or mailed to: The Examiner, 300 N. Osage St., Independence, MO 64050, attention Nancy Melton. Also, check the calendar online at examiner.net.
MO Senate panel hears pitch for using federal COVID funds
There was skepticism about new temporary state employees and the cost of developing the Rock Island railroad corridor into a new trail during the Senate Appropriation Committee’s first look at Gov. Mike Parson’s plan for spending $2.8 billion in federal coronavirus relief funds.
Nurse sentenced for rape at hospital
An Overland Park, Kansas, man who worked as a nurse at Centerpoint Medical Center will spend 20 years in state prison for raping a patient at the Independence hospital more than two years ago. A Jackson County judge Tuesday sentenced Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, 38, after finding him guilty of rape during a bench trial in November.