KANSAS CITY —Former Vice Presidential candidate and governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has endorsed Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Lt. Col. Tony Monetti.
Palin is scheduled to attend a rally for Monetti on June 27 in Kansas City.
The retired Air Force pilot’s senate campaign is selling tickets for the event that includes a catered reception, live entertainment and more.
By NICOLAS TELEP
Kansas City could see World Cup soccer action in 2026 now that FIFA has officially selected the “United Bid” of Canada, Mexico and the United States to host the event eight years from now.
The FIFA Congress selected the United Bid over a bid from Morocco in a 134-65 vote early Wednesday morning. Kansas City is among 23 cities listed in the bid as candidate cities to host some of the 80 matches that will be played in the three countries over the course of the event.
If Kansas City is chosen, matches would be played at Arrowhead Stadium. The bid book lists Arrowhead’s total capacity as 76,640, but about 7,500 of those seats would be used for VIPs and media, leaving the stadium’s capacity at just over 69,000 for the World Cup.
Arrowhead has experience with Major League Soccer events, having hosted the Kansas City Wizards — now known as Sporting Kansas City — for 12 years and the U.S. Open Cup Final in 2004. The stadium has also hosted World Cup qualifying games in the past. If it’s selected, Kansas City would host quarter-final games and possibly the third-place game.
Events for fans would be held at The National World War I Museum and Memorial and the South Lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and various sites in and near Kansas City would also be used as training facilities, including Swope Soccer Village, Children’s Mercy Park, Park University and the Kansas City Chiefs Practice Facility. Several hotels around the metro would host teams and FIFA VIPs during the tournament.
Estimated ticket prices for the potential matches in Kansas City would be $468 for quarter-final games and $609 for the third-place game.
Nicolas Telep is a morning news intern in conjunction with the Kansas News Service. Follow him on Twitter @NDTelep.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri mother and father have been charged with killing a man who punched or slapped the couple’s 12-year-old son during a monster truck event.
Forty-year-old Brenda Michelle Holt and 39-year-old Rickey Brunell Holt, of Bunker, Missouri, were freed on bond Monday. They’re charged with felony voluntary manslaughter in the death of 41-year-old Joe Girard of Oak Ridge. No attorneys are listed for them in online court records.
The Daily American Republic reports that Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs says the melee started Saturday at the Brick’s Off-Road Park in Poplar Bluff during the “Trucks Gone Wild” event when a highly intoxicated Girard struck the 12-year-old. Witnesses said a family friend hit Girard several times. Dobbs says the boy’s mother and father then showed up and
began beating Girard.
PARKVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A suburban Kansas City man who fatally shot his newlywed mother, her husband and the gunman’s ex-wife, before killing himself, was mentally ill and experiencing financial problems.
The Kansas City Star reports that neighbor and friend Carol Nixon says 50-year-old Douglas Pauling refused to take medication for his bipolar disorder, but that there were no signs he would become violent Sunday at a home in Parkville, Missouri.
Pauling’s 14-year-old daughter escaped unhurt after the shooting at a family gathering and called 911.
Those killed include Pauling’s mother, 73-year-old Sharmalee Pauling; her new husband, 66-year-old Carl Deruyscher; and the teen’s mother, 49-year-old Margaret “Maggie” Girard.
Court records also show Douglas Pauling was facing a tax judgment and liens.
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) – A fire chief says investigators found no smoke detectors in a southern Missouri mobile home where five children died last week.
The Kansas City Star reports that Fire Chief Sam Schneider says the cause of the fire in Lebanon, Missouri, hasn’t been determined. The fire killed siblings, 5-year-old Ethan, 2-year-old Maeanna and 1-year-old Benjamin Hunt. It also killed their cousins, 1-year-old Andre and 6-month-old Patience Malleck.
Alee Malleck, the 20-year-old mother of Andre and Patience, was pulled from the burning home through a window and remains unconscious.
Lebanon Mayor Jared Carr has pledged to donate $5,000 of city funds and to match every dollar raised by the community to fund the purchase and inspection of smoke detectors throughout the municipality. Donations can be made beginning June 26 at city hall.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Two men have been charged in federal court after being stopped on Interstate 44 with five kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in their vehicle.
Margarito Morales-Alvarez, 28, of California, and Jorge Armando Camacho-Sanchez, 38, a citizen of Mexico residing in California, were charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mo., on Monday, June 11, 2018.
The federal criminal complaint charges Morales-Alvarez and Camacho-Sanchez with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo., from June 8 to 10, 2018.
According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper stopped the 2015 Nissan Altima being driven by Morales-Alvarez on Sunday, June 10, 2018, on Interstate 44 in Jasper County. The trooper became suspicious because Morales-Alvarez and Camacho-Sanchez could not identify the specific city of their destination and the vehicle they were driving belonged to a third party, whom they had difficulty identifying.
The trooper deployed his canine, which indicated the presence of controlled substances in the vehicle. The trooper searched the vehicle and found five cellophane-wrapped plastic bags, each containing approximately a kilogram of methamphetamine, in a large speaker box in the trunk of the vehicle. Morales-Alvarez later told investigators that they were en route to Indiana to deliver the vehicle.
The charge contained in this complaint is simply an accusation, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charge must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.
Another more pleasant temperature day across the region with highs in the mid 80s. Thunderstorms are possible overnight, after midnight, across portions of northeastern Kansas and northern Missouri. No severe storms are expected. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Sunny, with a high near 82. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Southeast wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 96. South southeast wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74. South wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Friday: Sunny, with a high near 96. South wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74.
Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 95.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 75.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 94.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74.
Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) – Fire investigators suspect a cigarette or errant spark caused a fire that killed four brothers in Missouri.
A report from the state fire marshal’s office shows that the fire started in April after the boy’s mother and her boyfriend invited several friends over for a cookout in Lake Ozark. KRCG-TV reports that they used a barbecue grill and later lit a fire pit to keep warm.
The mother’s boyfriend told investigators he threw a pitcher of water over two still-burning logs before they left for a bar, leaving 14-year-old Tyler Otto to watch his brothers. The fire killed Tyler, along with 8-year-old Cason, 5-year-old Max and 4-year-old Levi.
Investigators couldn’t conclusively determine a cause but narrowed it down to a discarded cigarette or sparks from the fire pit or grill.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Prosecutors say a man and woman were caught on store video buying tools that police believe they later used to dismember a Nebraska woman.
Court documents unsealed Tuesday say 51-year-old Aubrey Trail told investigators that he strangled 24-year-old Sydney Loofe of Lincoln with an extension cord on Nov. 15.
Investigators believe 23-year-old Bailey Boswell helped Trail dismember Loofe, stuff her body parts in trash bags and dump them in a field near Edgar, about 90 miles southwest of Lincoln.
Loofe’s remains were found in December.
Authorities say Loofe met Boswell on an online dating app in November and they went on at least one date.
Trail and Boswell were quickly named as people of interest in the case and were arrested in late November in Branson, Missouri, on unrelated fraud charges. They have been held in the Saline County jail since then, though the charges in Loofe’s death weren’t announced until Monday.
Trail and Boswell appeared in Saline County Court on Tuesday. Each is charged with first-degree murder and improper disposal of human skeletal remains.
Authorities haven’t suggested a motive for the killing. The Nebraska Attorney General’s office, which is prosecuting the case, said it is considering seeking the death penalty.
In May, Boswell pleaded guilty in an unrelated gold coin scheme in Kansas.
MARYVILLE, Mo. – The Gladys M. Rickard Charitable Trust has awarded Northwest Missouri State University and its University Police Department with grant funds to purchase lifesaving equipment.
The grant funds, amounting to $7,500, will be used to purchase equipment including helmets with shields and vests designed to protect officers confronting an active shooter or civil disturbance. The equipment also enhances officers’ abilities to respond to such situations.
“This critical equipment allows us the ability to respond in a more efficient way and provide a level of safety to our officers who are responding as well as to those folks who they are saving,” University Police Chief Clarence Green said.
Northwest serves as the lead agency for armed intruder training for all law enforcement agencies within the region, and the University Police Department proactively educates Northwest students and employees about “Run, Hide, Fight,” a national model for responding to a hostile intruder.
In spring 2017, Northwest developed and led a full-scale exercise involving an armed intruder, and the new equipment was identified as a need during after-action reviews of the exercise.
Green, who will oversee the implementation of the new equipment, said the University Police Department trains for hostile intruder situations three times a year, in addition to quarterly firearms training.
Northwest’s University Police Department serves all students, faculty, staff and visitors on the campus. All of its police officers are state-certified and have commission that extends their authority throughout the state of Missouri. Since its operations began more than 50 years ago, the department has progressed into a national leader in campus law enforcement and prevention-based policing practices. Today, the department is responsible for police services, emergency planning and coordination, emergency communication, parking management, student security and transportation services on the campus.
