KANSAS CITY (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs had to learn to dink and dunk their way through this entire season, contrary to every instinct of go for broke quarterback Patrick Mahomes, as opposing defenses simply refused to let themselves get beaten deep.
MARCELINE — Given a couple of days more between outings than planned, Marceline High School’s wrestlers return to the mat for competition Saturday (Jan. 22) with the short jaunt to Brookfield for the Gary Haag Invitational Tournament.
MILAN — The Brookfield High School basketball Lady Bulldogs, 2-10 during the 2021 portion of the current season, continued their undeniable upgrade since the start of the new calendar year when they handled Brashear 37-25 in last Monday’s delayed third-place game in the Milan Invitational Tournament.
TRENTON — With team victory presumably hanging in the balance in what had been – as expected – a tooth-and-nail battle of Bulldogs throughout the match, Brookfield High School’s Trent Polley and Trenton’s Sam Gibson provided the expected tight, tension-filled 195-pounds bout in last Tuesday’s dual between two squads that figure to show well in next month’s Class 1 state tournament.
The Chillicothe Elks Gun Show, an annual event for 19 years until the pandemic caused it to not be held last year, is back in 2022 and will be held Feb. 11-13 at the Elks Lodge on Ryan Lane in east Chillicothe.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Columbia police have reopened the investigation into the death of man whose death was initially ruled an overdose.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to tighten oversight of projects that benefitted from Trump-era loosened water protections, but some projects including a controversial Georgia mine will likely be able to escape new scrutiny.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man released from prison after serving more than 40 years for a wrongful conviction is suing the company that provides medical care for Missouri prison inmates.
I like machines. Occasionally, usually on the couch, I envision an idyllic future, like the one in The Jetsons, where a robot rolls over to me with a martini. In the timeless classic by Flight of the Concords, the song Robots, set in “the distant future, the year 2000”, it is Man vs. Robot. The song is so good I’m rooting for the robots! And who could forget Short Circuit, the 1986 film starring Steve Guttenberg alongside a delightful robot, Number 5? The picture also gave us the hit single Who’s Johnny, by El Debarge. Okay, fine. Most people forgot that film but I did not! #neverforget!
ST. LOUIS (AP) — COVID-19 infections are rising in Missouri nursing homes and crippling schools as the highly contagious omicron variant surges.