WASHINGTON – Heading into a critical midterm election year, the top political concerns of Americans are shifting in ways that suggest Democrats face considerable challenges to maintaining their control of Congress.
CAIRO – One of Egypt’s last independent human rights organizations has closed down, a statement by the group said Monday, citing government persecution. Egypt’s government has engaged in a widespread crackdown on dissent for years that has stifled many of the country’s civil society groups and jailed thousands.
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda’s schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world’s longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The reopening caused traffic congestion in some areas of the capital, Kampala, and students could be seen carrying their mattresses in the streets, a back-to-boarding-school phenomenon not witnessed here for nearly two years.
MEXICO CITY – As coronavirus cases spike in Mexico and tests become scarce, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told Mexicans on Monday to just assume they had COVID-19 if they had symptoms. The number of confirmed cases in Mexico spiked by 186% last week.
LA cops pull pilot from plane moments before train hits it LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police officers pulled an injured pilot from the wreckage of a small plane that crash landed on railroad tracks just moments before a commuter train smashed into the aircraft over the weekend. Bodycam video showed the officers working furiously Sunday afternoon to disentangle the bloodied pilot from the cockpit of the crumpled Cessna 172.
As area COVID-19 cases continue their rise from the past two months to pandemic-high levels, some courts and schools have added some mitigation guidelines. For Jackson County, Presiding Judge Dale Youngs recently announced that jury trials in the 16th Circuit Court would be suspended this week and next week due to the omicron-fueled surge.
Soon, the Dave’s Barbershop lettering – along with the caricature of Dave Gramling – will be peeled away from the front window of the Main Street shop that was as much a gathering place for friends and family as it was a part of every groom who had his hair cut on his wedding day, to youngsters who sat the car-themed barber chair to get his first cut and trim.
While the current surge in COVID-19 cases continually threatens to swamp hospital capacity in the metro area, staffing issues also have popped up outside hospitals in dealing with the pandemic. At hospitals such as Centerpoint Medical Center, Dr.
The Independence Ministerial Alliance last month offered a donation to the city of Independence to allow homeless people to use showers at the Sermon Center, particularly when the center used as a warming or cooling center.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after a fatal crash that occurred while she was driving drunk, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s office said.