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Thanksgiving will be here in three more days, then the Christmas season swings into full gear with the Friday sales in area retail stores.

It has been 28 days since the last time a cigarette has touched my lips, and I am past the cravings.

Meredith Hauck, left and Erin Curtin chat with people at the St. Joseph Business Summit following their presentation about utilizing social media in business.

Home << Local << City wants grant to battle smoking The American Cancer Society asks smokers to give up the habit for one day today as part of the Great American Smokeout.

Home << Local << St. Joseph pays tribute to veterans Ray Bliley drives a vintage Dodge WC-52 military troop/cargo vehicle while his brother Joe, standing, mans the replica 30-caliber machine gun Wednesday afternoon in the Veterans Day parade.

Home << Local << Western students take a food fighta to the hungry Missouri Western State University students organized themselves Sunday night into a fight against local hunger and homelessness.

Rita Miller graduated drug court in 2006 and has been clean and sober ever since.

At the News-Press, we have a vested interest in this project. We stand to benefit if residents are able to read the written word.

Imagine walking into your typical English class and sitting in your normal seat.

Northwest Health Services will present a Diabetes & Risk Factors Health Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov.

Home << Diem << Making modern-day slavery a thing of the past Two centuries ago, British abolitionists showed what slavery looked like with a sketch of a ship carrying Africans crammed inside shoulder-to-shoulder. This image sparked the abolition movement, and in most of the world today, such inhumane treatment of humans is deemed undeniably wrong ...

Home << Diem << Where have all the nursing caps gone? Elaine Greer remembers how one of her classmates in nursing school got secretly married.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of naturalist Charles Darwina s birth. Appropriately, this yeara s Galileoa s Legacy Conference at Missouri Western State University focuses on Darwina s contributions to science.

Home << Local << - Flounder' serious about diabetes care Stephen Furst, who in his first movie role played - Flounder' in - National Lampoon's Animal House,' signs autographs after speaking at the Heartland Health Diabetes Expo in the Fulkerson Center at Missouri Western State University Saturday morning.

The economic engine that drives St. Joseph can be likened to a patchwork quilt, and one piece people don't often think about is Fort Leavenworth.

Orcinneo Gaines, 23, is a senior at Missouri Western State University. He says he never got to see then-Sen. Barack Obama speak during his 2008 campaign but was a supporter nonetheless.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon stops to talk with St. Joseph Mayor Ken Shearin and council member Barbara LaBass Thursday before taking the podium at the St.

Dr. John Jasinski drove his Chevy Nova to the campus of Northwest Missouri State University in the summer of 1986, fresh out of graduate school and intent on staying for a year or two.

Students walk between buildings at Northwest Missouri State University Wednesday afternoon.

The unemployment rate nears 10 percent. Many people are experiencing wage freezes or layoffs.