Peculiar News

Missouri offers a bumper crop of peculiar placenames: Peculiar, Purdy, Conception Junction, Tightwad, Knob Noster, Times Beach, Cooter, and many more.

By Allen Edmonds, The Star HeraldElnora Fay giggles every time she recites the phrase.It's become her mantra, a well-practiced line that couldn't be more applicable.'I chuckle with a grin when I think of all the places my get-up-and-go has been,' she said Monday, probably for the thousandth time in the weeks leading up to Saturday's big day.'I've ...

Tonight's Class 1-5 sectional football games. All games kick off at 7 p.m. Nixa at Camdenton Ozark at Raytown South Rolla at Parkway North Webster Groves at Eureka Chaminade vs.

The Raymore-Peculiar High School Fine Arts Department announces its upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's award winning musical 'Into the Woods.'Performances of the show will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Academy Theatre at Ray-Pec High School.'Into the Woods' tells the ...

By Ben Felder, The Star HeraldPeculiar voters rejected two ballot issues , one requested a tax levy increase and the other a fuel tax increase.Question 1, which asked for a 20-cent increase to the city's tax levy per $100 of assessed valuation, failed by a 73-percent rejection by voters.

It's hard to imagine that there has been a '32 Ford highboy sedan built in the last 27 years that doesn't take some trace of influence, directly or indirectly, from the famous Eastwood & Barakat sedan from 1982.

By Allen Edmonds, The Star HeraldPending Board of Education approval, the Raymore-Peculiar School District is preparing to move forward next school year with a revolutionary plan to ward off economic pressures that superintendent Jeff Kyle believes will only get worse over the coming years.Rather than move forward with plans to build a second high ...

By Ben Felder, The Star HeraldPeculiar voters will face three ballot questions on Nov.

There are so many new ways for you to decorate your home this Halloween that it's, well, scary.

PECULIAR, MO. & MUNICH -- -- charismathics, a global leader in IT security components and smart card middleware, announced today that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified the charismathics CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant.

Steve Donahoe was sipping coffee in his sunroom when the police scanner crackled about an accident a half-mile from his home.He hoped Katie got past that before the traffic backed up.

Katie Donahoe of Raymore, Mo., left, a Ray-Pec High School student, will play her saxophone with the school band on Saturday for the first time since she was severely injured in a violent car wreck by a pickup truck on September 1 while on her way to school.

The Star Herald captured four first-place awards and placed third in General Excellence among weekly papers statewide at Saturday's Missouri Press Association awards ceremony at the Sheraton Kansas City Sports Complex Hotel.In addition, the newspaper brought home two second-place awards, three third-place awards and two honorable mentions for a ...

It will be a night for unnatural beauties. With contestants showing off breast implants, nose jobs and face lifts, Miss Plastic Hungary 2009 strives to promote the benefits of plastic surgery in a country where artificial enhancements are viewed mostly with a wary eye.

A school bus carrying high school students from Raymore-Peculiar High School was involved in a series of accidents on 71 Highway Friday morning where the two men in one of the vehicles ran from the scene.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' Police say the driver of a car involved in an accident with a school bus Friday morning got out of the vehicle and ran.

State Route Y closed to through traffic between the Beyer Crushed Rock quarry and State Route YY on Friday for road reconstruction.

Gasoline prices, on a wild ride over the past year-and-a-half, are back down again, inching toward $2 a gallon in Missouri, the state with the cheapest pump prices in the nation.

Nixa Public Schools' board of education has been named one of five finalists for the 2009 Outstanding Board of Education Award sponsored by the Missouri School Boards' Association.

Globe/Garry Jeffries Grant Evans , Josh Clyde and the other members of the Joplin High School marching band wait to take the field Saturday during Webbstock.