A Native American tale with international pedigree
By JAKE COYLE (CANNES, France, AP) — It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a…
$1 million in jewelry stolen near film fest
By JAMEY KEATEN (PARIS, AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth…
Marshall Jazz festival features native son
By CARLOS RESTREPO The Marshall Democrat-News (MARSHALL, Mo., AP) — Marshall-born jazz musician Bob James has been busy since he last came to town a year ago for the second…
Budget surpluses spur tension in GOP states
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United…
Project aims to track big city carbon footprints
By ALICIA CHANG (LOS ANGELES, AP) – Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and…
International students immerse in program
By KEVIN LYON (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — Think back to your first semester in college, when the rush of moving out of high school was wearing off and you were…
Woman rescued from Bangladesh rubble
By JULHAS ALAM (SAVAR, Bangladesh, AP) — For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into…
UCM’s Criminal Justice dominates nationals
(WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – The University of Central Missouri’s Gamma Epsilon Delta Chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association/Lambda Alpha Epsilon professional fraternity returned from the 2013 National Conference at…
K.C. Toy Museum starts capital campaign
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Toy & Miniature Museum of Kansas City is starting a public capital campaign to help its efforts to renovate and upgrade the 30-year-old building.…
Race, tradition factor into Greek membership
By NICOLE COOKE (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – From an outsider’s point of view, UCM’s fraternity and sorority life may appear as one community, but it is comprised of three separate…