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… Read more »
Category: Features
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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…. Read more »
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… Read more »
Buenos Aires has become a street art mecca
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA (BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, AP) – In most major cities, street artists create their works under cover of darkness, spray-painting their graffiti quickly to elude arrest. Not so… Read more »
Experts warn about bogus bombing fundraisers
By JAY LINDSAY (BOSTON, AP) – At least two online campaigns aimed to help David Henneberry buy a new boat after his was shot up while a Boston Marathon bombing… Read more »