Independence News

A burglary report at a home near U.S. 24 and Kentucky Road Thursday afternoon prompted a brief lockdown at a nearby elementary school.

I remember how shocked I was the first time I heard that World War II POWs had worked in Orrick during the potato harvest.

Mary Josephine Wonsetler-Cauthon, 73, of Carrollton, Mo. died May 31, 2012 at Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Mo.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Think life has stacked the deck against you every so often, maybe too often? To be sure, many of us do have tough problems, adversities, hardships.

Mrs. Ritter was born in Memphis, Missouri. She and her husband Monte had been together for over 43 years.

In a perverse way, the Barisan Nasional has achieved what it could not through its sloganeering - a growing number of Malaysians united in purpose, writes A Malaysian .

The Truman Trolley is rolling the streets of Independence! Once again the bright red Truman Trolleys is running from the Independence Square to and from major tourism attractions around town.

Members of the 131st Bomb Wing deployed to Iraq/Afghanistan wars were among the military honored this year with the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award from the City of Independence.

Independence Animal Services is currently at capacity for cats and they desperately need to move them from the shelter as soon as possible.

In remembrance of those who have died serving our country in the armed forces, Jackson County will adorn the front of the county courthouse in downtown Kansas City, Missouri with a multitude of American flags beginning Friday, May 25, 2012.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Congress has given the go-ahead for toll booths along interstates in three states, including I-70 in Missouri.

Harry Truman paid off his last debt Wednesday.The former president — actually, longtime Truman impersonator Niel Johnson — handed $56.63 to Truman’s former paperboy, who said he never was paid for about six months worth of newspapers delivered to Truman’s Independence home in 1947.“Honesty was one of my policies,” ... (more)

Thanks to State Farm's Cause an Effect grant program, kiddos with special needs in the Kansas City metro will have a park with equipment made just for them! The city of Independence submitted a cause to State Farm's grant competition in February along with approximately 3000 other cities.

"Look what I made," said Kelly Sims of Liberty, Mo., holding up her smartphone during an unofficial show and tell during a chalkboard paint class at Be Here Now, a store in Independence, Mo.

The Robert J. Dole Institute Archive and Special Collections at the University of Kansas will host the "Herblock" exhibition until Aug.

Posted on: 8:02 pm, May 20, 2012, by Michelle Pekarsky and Gia Vang , updated on: 08:16pm, May 20, 2012 INDEPENDENCE, Mo.

Police began receiving reports about 1 a.m. Sunday on a suspicious vehicle in the area of U.S. 24 Highway and Kentucky Road.

A shooter in a minivan in Independence early Sunday morning injured one person in what police believe was a random attack.Police began hearing several reports of gunshots soon after 1 a.m. in the northwest part of Independence and descriptions of a suspicious vehicle.

"Look what I made," said Kelly Sims of Liberty, Mo., holding up her smartphone during an unofficial show and tell during a chalkboard paint class at Be Here Now, a store in Independence, Mo.

Tom Knapp seems like a magician with a shotgun when he hand tosses clay targets in the air and shoots them all in midflight.