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Live updates from Monday’s Chiefs training camp practice: Day 2
Monday’s Kansas City Chiefs training camp practice gets underway at 9:15 a.m. Arrowhead Time. It’s taking place on the practice fields alongside Spratt Stadium on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Skies are partly to mostly sunny in St. Joseph. Temperatures are expected to be in the...
St. Louis Radio Personality Tammie Holland Dies At 53.
Tammie Holland, most recently a co-host of the “Real Breakfast Crew” on Roberts Metro Broadcasting St. Louis’ “Foxy 106.9 FM,” died Saturday after a three-year about with colon cancer that she publicly chronicled. She was 53. The company announced her death, saying “Tammie was more...
Victim hospitalized with critical injuries from east Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Investigators continue to piece together what happened after police in Kansas City were told the victim of a suspected weekend homicide was still alive in a nearby hospital in critical condition. Around 8:15 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department announced...
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes reveal the gender of Baby No. 3
Patrick and Brittany Mahomes have officially revealed that their new baby is a girl. The couple again took to Instagram on Friday to announce the gender after the Kansas City Chiefs star reported to training camp. The reigning Super Bowl MVP addressed his newest bundle of joy with reporters during...
St. Louis man, woman hurt in crash in Fenton area
A St. Louis man and woman were injured Friday morning, July 19, in a two-vehicle accident at Hwy. 141 and Schneider Drive in the Jefferson County portion of Fenton, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported. At 11:31 a.m., Michael R. Sippel, 65, of Fenton was driving a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado...
Three Vehicle Accidents over the Weekend in West Central Missouri
Multiple motor vehicle accidents over the weekend in west central Missouri, including a collision between a pickup truck and a tractor, a fatal UTV rollover, and a single-vehicle accident resulting in moderate injuries. In Pettis County at 4:47 PM on Friday, July 19th, a pickup driven by William A. Anderson,...
In search of a smarter sensor
Mizzou’s Matthias Young develops a technique to detect nutrients in soil faster and more affordably. Every year, Missouri farmers lose millions of dollars in valuable nutrients that wash away into rivers and lakes. These nutrients — nitrates and phosphates found in fertilizers — are crucial for plant growth, but they wreak havoc on aquatic life when they end up in waterways.
Deaconess Foundation invites applications from organizations in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois
The Deaconess Foundation aims to improve the health of the community and people of eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. The foundation invites applications for its Seeding the Future Grants, which support efforts that accelerate change in conditions and systems transformation through coalition and base building, grassroots advocacy, civic engagement, community organizing, and public policy development/change. Funding will be awarded to bolster organizational and civic infrastructure expansion, advance of public policies, and/or support efforts impacting systems transformation through an intergenerational approach for the improved health and wellness of people in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. The grant is designed to cultivate a partnership pipeline for the Movement Transformation Cohort.
Jacob’s Radar: Wildfire smoke staying just west of KC
Over 1 million acres have been burned by wildfires so far this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. There are currently 60 large fires active nationwide, with 10 new fires in the last few days. Just like the last several summers, widespread smoke from these wildfires is impacting parts of the Plains and Midwest. However, for now the smoke plume is just northwest of the Kansas City region.
Missouri uses money, laws to push evidence-based reading instruction
If you drop into an elementary reading lesson, you might see kids learning about the long U sound, building their vocabulary or practicing how to read aloud without sounding like robots. And if you visit Kansas City Public Schools this fall, you should see all students in the same grade...
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