Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Who do you plan to vote for during the Nov. 2 General Election District 55 race?
  • An Independence man and a Kansas City woman are both wanted for outstanding warrants by the Blue Springs Police Department.

  • South’s new broadcast class produces weekly newscast

    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.

  • Kanatzer steps down, Sanders chooses interim

    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.

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