An Independence man and a Kansas City woman are both wanted for outstanding warrants by the Blue Springs Police Department.

A white board with story ideas listed on it was nearly full in the newsroom. Among the proposed topics for the next show were a severe weather story, a story about breathalyzers being used at prom and a zombie movie update.

Roscoe Righter has been the director of Blue Springs Parks and Recreation Department for 32 years. But as of Sept. 30, he will retire.

Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders has appointed Jean Peters-Baker as Jackson County Prosecutor. Sanders made the announcement at a press conference this afternoon at the downtown Jackson County Courthouse.

I have a lot of history with Blue Springs. I started my career in daily newspapers at the Blue Springs Examiner back in 1996. We were on R.D. Mize Road, QuikTrip was just a few steps away and Texas Tom’s on M-7 Highway contributed to my late-90s weight gain.

Cheers were heard around the nation Sunday night and into the week celebrating the death of America’s “Public Enemy No. 1,” Osama bin Laden.

A Blue Springs man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for money laundering, according to Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

At 11 a.m. last Thursday, James Kanatzer officially became a judge representing the 16th Judicial Court in Jackson County and relinquished his post as Jackson County Prosecutor.

When Julia Edge, 13, suffered a shoulder injury while pitching softball, her mother, Shannon, bypassed traditional medicine and took her daughter to a chiropractor.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has been named a semifinalist for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom award.