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Blue Springs voters reject sales tax for online buying
By Mike Genet Blue Springs voters Tuesday turned down the use tax for online retail sales, the second time the city has been unable to… Login to continue reading Login…
McCandless, Huff head to Independence council race
By Mike Genet Either Mike Huff or Bridget McCandless will join the Independence City Council in November. Independence voters sent Huff and McCandless to November’s… Login to continue reading Login…
AREA COVID-19 TESTING SITES
University Health testing: Regular testing hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Testing is available at the Lakewood campus at 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, Kansas City, and the Hospital Hill site at 2211 Charlotte, Kansas City.
Traffic plan set for Monday’s Whataburger opening
By The Examiner staff Whataburger says it will open its Blue Springs location at 11 a.m. Monday. Police will have detours set up to funnel… Login to continue reading Login…
Chicago synagogue, businesses vandalized over weekend
CHICAGO – A synagogue and an affiliated Jewish school in Chicago were vandalized over the weekend with swastika images and antisemitic graffiti, officials said. The incidents occurred Sunday at the FREE Synagogue and Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School. Vandalism also occurred at a synagogue in Lincolnwood, WMAQ-TV reported. A Jewish group, the Concerned Citizens League, said windows were broken Saturday at a Chicago bakery and a kosher food store. Police in Chicago were investigating the incidents.
Canadian prime minister tests positive for COVID-19
TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19, but is “feeling fine” and will continue working remotely. The announcement came in a tweet in which he urged everyone to “please get vaccinated and get boosted.” Trudeau said on Thursday that he was going into isolation for five days after finding out the previous evening he had been in contact with someone who tested positive. He told The Canadian Press on Friday that person was one of his three children.
Germany: 2 police officers shot dead during traffic stop
BERLIN – Two police officers were shot dead on a rural road in western Germany while on a routine patrol early Monday, police said. Two suspects were detained hours later. The shooting happened during a traffic check near Kusel at about 4:20 a.m., police in Kaiserslautern said in a statement. The officers radioed that shots were being fired, spokesman Bernhard Christian Erfort told n-tv television. But reinforcements who arrived at the scene were unable to help the 24-year-old woman and the 29-year-old man.
DA seeks protection in Trump inquiry
ATLANTA – The prosecutor who’s investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating him.