(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Two lucky ticket holders — one in Arizona and another in Missouri — are waking up Thursday to new lives as multimillionaires after the largest… Read more »
Category: Features
Department of Theatre presents one-acts
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) — It’s BlackBox Theatre time again, when UCM students get to present their creative works to the public. The University of Central Missouri Department of Theatre & Dance… Read more »
Shakespeare’s Globe building indoor theater
By JILL LAWLESS (LONDON, AP) — Shakespeare’s Globe, the open-air London playhouse that helped win modern audiences over to all-weather outdoor theatergoing, is embracing the great indoors. The Globe on… Read more »
Cyber Monday may be busiest online sales day
By MAE ANDERSON (NEW YORK, AP) — Bye-bye Black Friday. So long Small Business Saturday. Now, it’s Cyber Monday’s turn. Cyber Monday, coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group… Read more »
Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids
By DAVID CRARY Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and… Read more »
Why must we buy? Black Friday’s strong pull
By JESSE WASHINGTON (BEAVER FALLS, Pa., AP) — Gravy was still warm. Dallas Cowboys were still in uniform. Thanks were still being given across the country as the pilgrimages to… Read more »
Turkey, pie and politics? T-Day family friction
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP — Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold, maybe apple pie with ice cream, some football on TV. Getting together with the cousins. Catching up… Read more »
KMOS-TV provides books for Angel Tree
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – Many local children can count on a good book for Christmas thanks to a recent donation from the University of Central Missouri’s public broadcasting station. Rosemary Olas,… Read more »
Art’s perfect theft: the ‘Ghent Altarpiece’
By RAF CASERT (GHENT, Belgium, AP) — The main suspect in the legendary art heist is said to have whispered with his dying breath: “Only I know where the ‘Adoration’… Read more »
Hunting: How to prepare and be safe
By KATIE DOUGLAS (Fredericktown, Mo., digitalBURG) — Beep, beep, beep. The alarm clock sounds. Stars are still in the sky as Ian Rowland checks the time – 4:45 a.m. The… Read more »