August 2022

School Buses, Young Drivers, Children Walking … Must Be Time For Students To Return To School!

August 10, 2022

August has arrived and with it the 2022-2023 school year. The Missouri State Highway Patrol would like to encourage parents to include conversations about safety when preparing their student for school. It’s also important that drivers be prepared for the change in traffic patterns as students begin another year of instruction. In 2021, one person was killed and 217 injured in traffic crashes involving a school bus. In Missouri last year, 794 traffic crashes involved school buses. Troopers hope everyone will review these safety tips:

Prep Practices For Fall Sports Commence Monday

August 5, 2022

Preparations for a new season of Missouri high school fall sports are set to commence Monday, preseason practices pointing toward the start of competition during the final week of August. The highest-profile sport – football – will have its opening games played the weekend of Aug.

King, Trentham Will Face Off In November For County Commissioner

August 5, 2022

In the only contested county-wide race during the Aug. 2 primary, Incumbent Dick King beat out the other republican candidates - Burnie Hicks and David Hannink - and will now face the Democratic Candidate Lonnie Trentham in the November General Election for the office of Linn County Presiding Commissioner. There were 1,618 votes cast on republican bal

August 5, 2022

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.

MLB Trade Deadline Recap: Soto, Hader, More To Padres

August 5, 2022

CHICAGO — Juan Soto is joining Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr. in San Diego. Jorge López, Michael Fulmer and Tyler Mahle are going to Minnesota. Noah Syndergaard, David Robertson and Brandon Marsh are heading to Philadelphia, and Joey Gallo is looking for a fresh start with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Chiefs Signing Veteran De Carlos Dunlap To 1-Year Contract

August 5, 2022

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs signed defensive end Carlos Dunlap to a one-year deal worth up to $8 million at the start of training camp, giving them an experienced pass rusher opposite Frank Clark and first-round pick George Karlaftis and another veteran presence.

August 5, 2022

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whit Merrifield said last month he might be willing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if it meant playing for a team in contention, even though he had refused to get the shot while playing for the lastplace Kansas City Royals.

Short On Soto Gambit, St. Louis Cardinals Deal For Quintana, Another Lefty Starter

August 5, 2022

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jose Quintana has parlayed his success in Pittsburgh into a job in St.

September 1 Is Dove Season Opener

August 5, 2022

There’s “light at the end of the tunnel” for Missouri hunters who have been tolerating a long, hot summer with no hunting available (except for squirrels and frogs) while waiting for fall hunting seasons to begin.

Pecans Give These Cookies Extra Appeal

August 5, 2022

Pecans are tasty offerings that are ideal in both savory dishes and desserts. Like fruits of other members of the hickory genus of trees, pecans are not truly nuts, but drupes. A drupe is a fruit with a single stone or pit surrounded by a husk. With pecans, the outer husk dries out and splits open, exposing the "nuts" inside.