By LEAH WANKUM Managing Editor (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Warrensburg has a new chief of police. City officials announced Rich Lockhart’s appointment Monday, March 8. He begins work here April 11. Lockhart… Read more »
Category: Features

Faces of UCM: Nyemah Etienne
By ANDREA LOPEZ and BETHANY SHERROW Muleskinner Staff (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Nyemah Etienne loves people and she is not afraid to show it. She will memorize your name and talk to… Read more »

Rae Sremmurd, The Summer Set highlight UCM concert
COMMENTARY By CASSIE SLANA Reporter (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Transformations of the UCM Student Recreation and Wellness Center were already underway by Wednesday, March 9, for the concert taking place the following… Read more »

Death row survivor shares her story with UCM
By ANDREA LOPEZ and BETHANY SHERROW Muleskinner Staff (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Sabrina Butler, a Mississippi native, was 17 years old in 1989 when she left her sleeping son at home in… Read more »

Faces of UCM: Emily Dunlap
By BETHANY SHERROW Features Editor (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Emily Dunlap probably likes plants more than you do. “I’m really infatuated with plants; I kind of always have been,” Dunlap said. When… Read more »
Children’s literature festival staff expecting 4,000 attendees
By LEAH WANKUM and SARA LAWSON Muleskinner Staff (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — The university’s Children’s Literature Festival draws thousands to campus, including adults who visited as children decades ago. “Even… Read more »

Mock trial team to represent UCM at national competition
By DENISE ELAM Reporter (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — One of the two mock trial teams at the University of Central Missouri will compete in the American Mock Trial Association Opening Round Championships… Read more »
Dave Wisker: UCM employee and aspiring writer
By JAKE WOERTHER Reporter (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Dave Wisker’s daily commute from his home in Lee’s Summit to his office at UCM is only about 40 miles, but once a month… Read more »
Missouri interest groups push for texting-while-driving ban
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three… Read more »
Missouri man considers digging up second sunken steamship
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A man whose family turned the recovery of a 1850s sunken steamboat into a successful Kansas City museum is pondering whether he and his partners want to… Read more »