CAIN BURDEAU MICHAEL KUNZELMAN NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Isaac’s whistling winds lashed this city and the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain on its desolate streets, but the system… Read more »
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Council sets public hearing on tax rates
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – The Warrensburg City Council will convene public hearings Thursday to set annual tax rates for its general fund and parks department. The meeting is scheduled for 6… Read more »
Group targets underage drinking
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – An alcohol enforcement team is ramping up party patrols and compliance checks at local businesses in Johnson County. Law enforcement officials activated the Johnson County Alcohol Enforcement… Read more »
Ferguson passes nondiscrimination law
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson has become the sixth town in St. Louis County to pass a law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual preference. The Ferguson City Council unanimously approved… Read more »
Reward seeks information in 1965 child abduction
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly five decades after a small girl was kidnapped from the yard of her southeast Missouri home, the family of Elizabeth Gill is hoping new reward… Read more »
In drought, drillers offering even water witching
By DAVID MERCER CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Well driller Randy Gebke usually uses a geology database and other high-tech tools to figure out where to sink new water wells for… Read more »
Obama team launches critique of Ryan before speech
By JULIE PACE FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Even before Paul Ryan takes the stage at the Republican convention, President Barack Obama’s campaign is seeking to cast the GOP running… Read more »
Republican convention is in full-throated roar
By CALVIN WOODWARD DONNA CASSATA TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — With the Republican National Convention at last in full-throated roar, nominee Mitt Romney and his team are reaching out in all… Read more »
NY gunman quiet loner, victim outgoing family man
Story by COLLEEN LONG, TOM HAYS (NEW YORK, AP) — A gunman who killed a former co-worker in cold blood in the shadow of the Empire State Building and then… Read more »
UCM Foundation launches Fund for Excellence
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – Some 35,000 phones will soon start ringing as the UCM Foundation’s Mule Call prepares for a new academic year. When the fall phonathan kicks off Sept. 4,… Read more »