|
|
News |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
LINKS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Resources |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Links |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Local News |
|
|
Improvements to greet visitors to fair
BETHANY, MO - In its 94th year, the Northwest Missouri State Fair promises even more fun and surprises for fairgoers when the gates open this afternoon (Wednesday) for an expanded six-day program.
Several new events will be making a debut at this year’s fair. Chonda Pierce, a Christian comedian, will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon in front of the grandstands. And the “Wild World of Animals” will be presenting free shows on the fairgrounds all through the weekend.
read more...
|
Bethany reservists to be deployed to Afghanistan
BETHANY, MO - A farewell ceremony was held Tuesday morning at the Cpl. Jesse N. Funk Army Reserve Center for the 387th Resource Company which will be sending 21 of its members to Afghanistan.
read more...
|
Questions raised about horse deaths
BETHANY, MO - The Missouri Department of Conservation has been investigating the death of horses on a farm in the Mitchelville area, south of Bethany.
Two horses were found dead in a pasture and two others were injured in early August, leading to concerns that wild animals may have been involved.
read more...
|
Boy Scout carries out flagpole project for high school
BETHANY, MO - Boy Scout Zach Gannan, presents an American flag to South Harrison High School Principal Dennis Eastin during a ceremony Friday night prior to the South Harrison-Plattsburg football game. Zach, His parents Rob and Kerry Gannan, carried out an Eagle Scout project to install a new flagpole at Memorial Stadium.
read more...
|
Expanded fair program opens next Wednesday with parade, talent show
BETHANY, MO - The Northwest Missouri State Fair will get an early start next Wednesday, Sept. 1, as the fair expands to six days over Labor Day weekend.
read more...
|
Grade school enrollment exceeds 500
BETHANY, MO - South Harrison school officials will be preparing for a large surge of students through the local school system over the next few years, based upon a large enrollment increase in the lower grades.
read more...
|
American Legion’s bikers, 350 strong, visit Bethany on national Legacy Ride
BETHANY, MO - More than 350 bikers rolled into Bethany Monday afternoon during the American Legion’s 1,400-mile Legacy Ride to raise money for scholarships.
read more...
|
Chamber to sponsor chili cook-off during Bethany fall festival
BETHANY, MO - The Bethany Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a chili cook-off during the Northwest Missouri State Fall Festival and Car and Motorcycle Show on Oct. 9-10.
read more...
|
Power plant facing deadlines in meeting environmental rules
BETHANY, MO - Bethany’s main power plant will face a number of deadlines in meeting environmental regulations during the next couple of years, City Administrator Jan Hagler told the City Council Monday night.
read more...
|
School board, on 6-1 vote, rejects proposal for ‘tobacco-free campus’
BETHANY, MO - Saying they were concerned about whether it would be possible to enforce a smoking ban, South Harrison school board members Thursday night rejected a committee’s recommendation to make the school campus tobacco-free.
read more...
|
Family coping skills course to be in Bethany
BETHANY, MO - NAMI Missouri will sponsor the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program specifically for families of person diagnosed with serious mental illness. The 12-week series of classes will start in Bethany on Thursday, September 9, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., at the Harrison County Health Department at 1700 Bethany Ave.
read more...
|
Highway 136 bridge project causes headaches in planning bus routes
BETHANY, MO - South Harrison has had to adopt alternate travel routes for school buses because of bridge closures in the New Hampton and Mt. Moriah areas.
Superintendent Larry Linthacum told the school board Thursday night that the bus traveling to New Hampton is being detoured onto Route BB and onto graveled West 342nd St. and 345th St. to West 140th Ave. and to Route ZZ, south to Highway 136, because of the closure of the White Oak Bridge on U.S. 136.
read more...
|
|
|
|
|
National News |
|
|
Oil platform explodes off La. coast; crew rescued
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">ALAN SAYRE </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T00:15:26Z">2010-09-03T00:15:26Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed....</div>
</div>
Earl weakens, still powerful, headed to NC
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T00:14:40Z">2010-09-03T00:14:40Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say Hurricane Earl has weakened to a Category 2 storm though they warn it is still powerful as it heads toward North Carolina and the Eastern Seaboard....</div>
</div>
Wash. woman in acid attack recounts agonizing pain
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:26:54Z">2010-09-02T23:26:54Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"...</div>
</div>
Arizona governor stumbles during debate
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">PAUL DAVENPORT </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:27:56Z">2010-09-02T23:27:56Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">PHOENIX (AP) -- It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory....</div>
</div>
Police: Discovery Channel hostages planned escape
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">SARAH BRUMFIELD and KATHLEEN MILLER </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:52:30Z">2010-09-02T23:52:30Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Police had been negotiating with James Jae Lee for several hours and intended to keep him talking for as long as it took to safely resolve the standoff at the Discovery Channel's headquarters. Inside the lobby, Lee's three hostages had no intention of waiting....</div>
</div>
Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">AMANDA LEE MYERS and PAUL DAVENPORT </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:49:49Z">2010-09-02T23:49:49Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">PHOENIX (AP) -- The Justice Department sued the nation's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" on Thursday, calling Joe Arpaio's defiance of an investigation into his office's alleged discrimination against Hispanics "unprecedented."...</div>
</div>
Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">IBRAHIM BARZAK AND JOSEF FEDERMAN </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T20:06:54Z">2010-09-02T20:06:54Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations....</div>
</div>
Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">DAVID B. CARUSO and CRISTIAN SALAZAR </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:04:49Z">2010-09-02T23:04:49Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site still have financial hurdles to clear: They haven't finished buying all the property they want for the project and are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees....</div>
</div>
Chicago gangs to top cop: You're not playing fair
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MICHAEL TARM </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-02T23:06:25Z">2010-09-02T23:06:25Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">CHICAGO (AP) -- Calling the Chicago police chief's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference on Thursday to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair....</div>
</div>
Man in Letterman blackmail plot freed from NY jail
<div class="hnews hentry item">
By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">JENNIFER PELTZ </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-03T00:17:13Z">2010-09-03T00:17:13Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show....</div>
</div>
|
|
|
|
|
Regional, State News |
|
|
|
|
|