St. Joseph Police have identified the body found Wednesday afternoon in the area of North 13th and Powell Street.
According to Capt. Jeff Wilson with the department, 28-year-old Clifford York was found dead in the area when officers responded to a report of shots fired. Wilson said the body has been sent for autopsy.
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Police are investigating after a body was found Wednesday afternoon in the area of North 13th and Powell Street.
According to Commander Eric Protzman with the St. Joseph Police Department, officers responded to a report of shots fired at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday.
A body was found and police say they are considering it a suspicious death investigation.
Now that the epic rain event for early October of 2018 has ended, we are expecting a dry day or two with colder temperatures lasting through the weekend. Rain chances will return for the end of the work week, and over the weekend, but expected rainfall totals are nowhere near what we just received. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Cloudy, with a high near 53. West wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. Northwest wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 53. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers after 2 a.m. Increasing clouds, with a low around 39. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Friday: Showers, mainly between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. High near 49. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Friday Night: A chance of showers before 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 55.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers after 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday: A chance of showers before 8 a.m., then a chance of showers after 2 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Sunday Night: A chance of showers before 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Pumpkin Mountain will light up again for the 22nd year of PumpkinFest in St. Joseph.
Carlene Makawski with the PumpkinFest said the annual lighting of the hundreds of pumpkins on Pumpkin Mountain will take place at 8 p.m. Friday.
“I can remember back, the first lighting of the mountain, and everybody, when we threw the switch, holding their breath and hoping that it worked. It was just so exciting and, it’s silly to say, but it brought tears to our eyes,” Makawski said. “You know, still, to this day, it’s just kind of an emotional thing when you see all the lights come on.”
The weekend will also include the Children’s Parade beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, the Children’s Tent will be open each day and there will be several musical and entertainment acts throughout the weekend.
There will also be a few new things this year including historical presentations on subjects including Joseph Robidoux, the early days of St. Joseph and 100 years of Cherry Mash.
PumpkinFest takes place Friday through Sunday at Pony Express National Museum and Patee Park at 9th and Penn street in St. Joseph. For more information, go to ponyexpresspumpkinfest.com.
Showers moving north along the Kansas-Missouri state line, into northwest Missouri, will persist through much of the morning, adding to local flooding issues that are already ongoing. But, this afternoon strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to develop ahead of a cold front that will sweep through the region tonight. There will be a threat of damaging winds and isolated tornadoes with the strongest of the afternoon and evening storms, generally in areas from east central Kansas into central and northern Missouri. The threat for severe storms will quickly diminish this evening as the sun sets, but continued moderate to heavy rain from any lingering storms will likely lead to more flooding issues overnight. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Today: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some storms could be severe, with heavy rain. Patchy fog. High near 73. Southeast wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between midnight and 5 a.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5 a.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Patchy fog between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. Low around 51. South southeast wind 9 to 11 mph becoming southwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Wednesday: A chance of showers before 7 a.m. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 57. West wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 38. Northwest wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 57. Northwest wind 8 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 39.
Friday: A chance of showers before 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 52. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 42.
Saturday: Showers, mainly after 1 p.m. High near 57. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Saturday Night: Showers. Low around 43. Chance of precipitation is 100%.
Sunday: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 48. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday Night: A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
With the November election coming up, the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce is offering an opportunity for voters to hear from candidates.
Kristi Bailey with the Chamber said they are partnering with 680 KFEQ to hold a forum on Friday for candidates running for open state Senate and House of Representatives seats.
“We’re excited to be able to bring all the candidates together, members from the business community or the community at large. We’ll have a light breakfast, let all the candidates talk about issues that are important to them and take questions from the audience,” Bailey said. “What’s great about this is, sometimes it is hard for people to get to a 7:30 meeting, so it’s great that we have this partnership with KFEQ so people can listen live with Barry Birr and stay informed, stay up-to-date on the issues, even if they can’t leave the office or they can’t leave the house to join us in-person.”
The Public Affair Coffee Candidate Forum will be held at 7:30 a.m. on Friday at Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center located at 1201 N. Woodbine Road. The forum will also be available to listen to on 680 KFEQ AM or online.
To register to attend in-person, click here or contact the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce at (816) 232-4461.
Localized flash flooding is possible this morning across areas along and northwest of I-35. This afternoon, isolated storms are possible, bringing localized flooding and severe weather potential. Severe weather is possible in the yellow and yellow hashed areas, while localized flash flooding is possible in the yellow hashed area. More moderate to heavy rain is expected across the entire area Tuesday morning through Wednesday. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:
Columbus Day: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Patchy fog between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. High near 80. South wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 10 p.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. South southeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. High near 74. South southeast wind 7 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 1 a.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 a.m. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Low around 48. South southwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming west northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 58. Northwest wind around 11 mph.
Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 39.
Thursday: Sunny, with a high near 55.
Thursday Night: A chance of showers after 1 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 40. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Friday: A chance of showers before 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 41.
Saturday: A chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 57. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Saturday Night: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work in the Northwest Missouri region planned for the week of Oct. 8 – 14 from the Missouri Department of Transportation.
In addition to the work listed below, there may be other road work conducted throughout the region. Many of these will be moving operations and could include lane closures with delays. All scheduled maintenance and construction projects are subject to change.
MoDOT reminds the public to stay alert, watch for road work, buckle up, slow down, and drive with extreme caution through work zones and in changing weather conditions.
For more information about a project, please contact MoDOT at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT (888-275-6636) or visit modot.org/northwest. You can also follow MoDOT’s Northwest Missouri District on Twitter @ModotNorthwest and on Facebook.
Atchison County
U.S. Route 59 – Pothole patching and shoulder work, Oct. 9 – 12
Interstate 29 – Resurfacing project from the Iowa state line to Route 111, Oct. 9 – 13
Buchanan County
I-229– Resurfacing project from 22nd Street to the I-29 ramps, Oct. 9 – 12
U.S. Route 169 (Belt Highway) – Pedestrian crossing improvement project at Faraon Street and U.S. Route 36, Oct. 9 – 12
Caldwell County
U.S. Route 36 – Shoulder work from just east of the DeKalb County line to Route 33 (DeKalb County), Oct. 9 – 12
U.S. Route 36 – Core drilling from the Livingston County line to Route 13, Oct. 10
Carroll County
Route D – Railroad maintenance at the Marceline Sub Railroad crossing in Norborne, Oct. 9, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Route 10 – Resurfacing project from Route FF to Business U.S. Route 65 near Carrollton, Oct. 10 – 12
Clinton County
U.S. Route 169 – Sealing rumble strips from the city limits of Trimble to the Buchanan County line, Oct. 9. A pilot car will direct traffic through the work zone.
I-35 – Pavement repair southbound from mile marker 51 near Cameron to mile marker 48 near Route HH, Oct. 9 – 11. This project will include overnight lane closures and a 12-foot width restriction.
Daviess County
Route J – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from 4th St in Altamont to Titan Road, Oct. 9, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route 190 – Shoulder work in the southbound lane at Otter Road, Oct. 9 – 11
Route 6 – Centerline and shoulder work from Route P to I-35, Oct. 9 – 12
Route J – CLOSED for culvert replacements from Titan Road to Route D, Oct. 10 and Oct. 12, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
DeKalb County
U.S. Route 169 – Shoulder work just north of Route 31/E, Oct. 9
Gentry County
Route Z – Pothole patching, Oct. 10 – 12
Grundy County
Route W – Pothole patching from Route F to Route A (Livingston County), Oct. 9
Route 6 – Shoulder work from Route 146 to Route WW, Oct. 9
Harrison County
I-35 – Resurfacing project from the Iowa state line to Route N at Eagleville, Oct. 9 – 12. This includes a 14-foot width restriction.
Linn County
U.S. Route 36 – Pothole patching from Meadville to the Macon County line, Oct. 9 – 10
Route 11 – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Kayak Road to Jewel Road, Oct. 10, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Route 11 – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from Kale Road to Knoll Road, Oct. 12, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Mercer County
U.S. Route 136 – Pothole patching, Oct. 9 – 12
Nodaway County
U.S. Route 71 – Milling northbound from 300th Street to 282nd Street, Oct. 9 – 10
Route E – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from 220th Street to 230th Street, Oct. 9, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Route E – CLOSED for a culvert replacement from 230th Street to 240th Street, Oct. 10, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
U.S. Route 136 – Milling from Route E to Liberty Road, Oct. 12
Putnam County
U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED for a bridge replacement project at the West Locust Creek Bridge. The road will be closed through October. A signed detour is in place.
U.S. Route 136 – CLOSED for a bridge replacement project at the Elm Branch Bridge. The road will be closed through October. A signed detour is in place.
Route 139 – Resurfacing project from the Iowa state line to Route 6 (Sullivan County), Oct. 1 – 6. This includes a 10-foot width restriction.
Sullivan County
Route 5 – Pothole patching from the Linn County line to Route M, Oct. 9 – 12
Route 139 – Resurfacing project from the Iowa state line (Putnam County) to Route 6, Oct. 9 – 12. This includes a 10-foot width restriction.
Worth County
Route YY – CLOSED at the Middle Fork of the Grand River after a regularly scheduled inspection revealed critical deterioration to the structure. At a minimum, the bridge will remain closed through November. The closure could be extended if further assessment warrants.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missourians wanting to vote in the Nov. 6 election must be registered by Wednesday.
Residents must submit a completed voter registration application to local election authorities by 5 p.m. on Oct. 10. The applications may be submitted in person or by mail.
Registration also may be done online through the Missouri Secretary of State’s website. Other places to register include at a driver’s license office when applying for or renewing a driver’s license, a library or any state agency where an applicant is obtaining a service.
Applicants are required to present a form of personal identification, such as a driver’s license.
Homecoming week starts Sunday at Missouri Western State University and at Northwest Missouri State University.
The theme this year for Missouri Western is “Griffons Under the Big Top.”
The annual Homecoming Parade will step off at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at 11th and Faraon in Downtown St. Joseph. It will proceed southwest on Frederick Avenue to Francis, then west on Francis to 4th, south of 4th to Felix, and east on Felix to 10th Street. Homecoming parade entries will be accepted through Oct. 10 online at missouriwestern.edu/homecoming.
The Griffon football team will take on the University of Central Oklahoma at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Spratt Stadium.
The Homecoming Committee invites the community to help save a life by participating in the Blood Drive Challenge vs. Northwest Missouri State University on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 9, 10 and 11. The Community Blood Center will be collecting blood from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union rooms 218. Book an appointment at esavealifenow.org, enter sponsor code MWSU.
For more information and the full schedule of Missouri Western’s homecoming week activities, click here.
Northwest Homecoming parade 2015. Photo by Jacob Hubbert | Northwest Missouri State University.
Northwest will celebrate “The Greatest Show at Northwest” during its 2018 Homecoming week.
The week begins Sunday, Oct. 7, with the hanging of the banners at the J.W. Jones Student Union, and the festivities conclude Monday, Oct. 15, with the presentation of awards in the Charles Johnson Theater. Highlights include the Homecoming parade and football game, the Variety Show and the International Flag Raising Ceremony as well as the grand opening of the Carl and Cheryl Hughes Fieldhouse.
The annual Homecoming parade begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the corner of Ray and College Avenue. The parade moves east on Fourth Street and concludes at the corner of Fourth and Main streets. It features more than 100 entries, including bands and floats sponsored by campus and community organizations, local schools and businesses.
The Bearcat football team takes on the University of Nebraska-Kearney in the annual Homecoming football game, beginning at 2 p.m. at Bearcat Stadium. Ticket information is available by clicking here.
The Homecoming Committee and Student Senate are collaborating to host Northwest’s annual fall blood drive, Oct. 9-11 in the Student Union Ballroom. The Northwest community is invited to give blood or a monetary donation to a local philanthropy. Additionally, student organizations will compete to raise units of blood and money as part of the overall Homecoming competition.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice Saturday night after the bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed him. The Senate vote delivered an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country’s cultural, gender and political divides.
Kavanaugh was quickly sworn in at the court building, across the street from the Capitol, even as protesters chanted outside.
I voted to confirm the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the #SCOTUS. As I said when I met Judge Kavanaugh, I am confident he will uphold the values of the Constitution to the highest standard.
The near party-line Senate vote was 50-48, capping a fight that seized the national conversation after claims emerged that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted women three decades ago — which he emphatically denied. Those allegations magnified the clash from a routine Supreme Court struggle over judicial ideology into an angrier, more complex jumble of questions about victims’ rights, the presumption of innocence and personal attacks on nominees.
Acrimonious to the end, the battle featured a climactic roll call that was interrupted several times by protesters in the Senate galleries before Capitol Police removed them. Vice President Mike Pence presided over the roll call, his potential tie-breaking vote unnecessary.
Trump, flying to Kansas for a political rally, flashed a thumbs-up gesture when the tally was announced and praised Kavanaugh for being “able to withstand this horrible, horrible attack by the Democrats.”
The vote gave Trump his second appointee to the court, pleasing conservative voters who might have revolted against GOP leaders had Kavanaugh’s nomination flopped. Instead, “It’s turned our base on fire,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
Democrats hope that the roll call, exactly a month from elections in which House and Senate control are in play, will do the opposite, prompting infuriated women and liberals to oust Republicans.
“Change must come from where change in America always begins: the ballot box,” said Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York, looking ahead to November.
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, confronting a tough re-election race next month in a state that Trump won in 2016 by a landslide, was the sole Democrat to vote for Kavanaugh. Every voting Republican backed the 53-year-old conservative judge.
Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, the only Republican to oppose the nominee, voted “present,” offsetting the absence of Kavanaugh supporter Steve Daines of Montana, who was attending his daughter’s wedding. That rare procedural maneuver left Kavanaugh with the same two-vote margin he’d have had if Murkowski and Daines had both voted.
Republicans hold only a 51-49 Senate majority and therefore had little support to spare.
It was the closest roll call to confirm a justice since 1881, when Stanley Matthews was approved by 24-23, according to Senate records.
Within minutes, dozens of political and advocacy groups blasted out emailed reactions.
Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY’s List, which contributes to female Democratic candidates, assailed the confirmation of “an alleged sexual assailant and anti-choice radical to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. But we will carry that anger into the election. Women will not forget this.”
Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, called the vote “a victory for liberty in America” and called Kavanaugh “a good man and good jurist.”
The outcome, telegraphed Friday when the final undeclared senators revealed their views, was devoid of the shocks that had come almost daily since Christine Blasey Ford said last month that an inebriated Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a 1982 high school get-together.
Since then, the country watched agape as one electric moment after another gushed forth. These included the emergence of two other accusers; an unforgettable Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which a composed Ford and a seething Kavanaugh told their diametrically opposed stories, and a truncated FBI investigation that the agency said showed no corroborating evidence and Democrats lambasted as a White House-shackled farce.
All the while, crowds of demonstrators — mostly Kavanaugh opponents — ricocheted around the Capitol’s grounds and hallways, raising tensions, chanting slogans, interrupting lawmakers’ debates, confronting senators and often getting arrested. Capitol Police said 164 were arrested, raising that count in recent days well into the hundreds.
Inside the Senate, resentments fanned by the battle showed no signs of receding.
Schumer called the GOP’s push for Kavanaugh “one of the least transparent, least fair, most biased processes in Senate history.” McConnell said a vote for Kavanaugh showed that the Senate was “a chamber in which the politics of intimidation and personal destruction do not win the day.”
Democrats said Kavanaugh would push the court too far, including possible sympathetic rulings for Trump should the president encounter legal problems from the special counsel’s investigations into Russian connections with his 2016 presidential campaign. And they said Kavanaugh’s record and fuming testimony at a now-famous Senate Judiciary Committee hearing showed he lacked the fairness, temperament and even honesty to become a justice.
But the fight was defined by the sexual assault accusations. And it was fought against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement and Trump’s unyielding support of his nominee and occasional mocking of Kavanaugh’s accusers.
About 100 anti-Kavanaugh protesters climbed the Capitol’s East Steps as the vote approached, pumping fists and waving signs. U.S. Capitol Police began arresting some of them. Hundreds of other demonstrators watched from behind barricades. Protesters have roamed Capitol Hill corridors and grounds daily, chanting, “November is coming,” ”Vote them out” and “We believe survivors.”
On Friday, in the moment that made clear Kavanaugh would prevail, Collins delivered a speech saying that Ford’s Judiciary Committee telling of the alleged 1982 assault was “sincere, painful and compelling.” But she also said the FBI had found no corroborating evidence from witnesses whose names Ford had provided.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who has repeatedly battled with Trump and will retire in January, wavered but also backed Kavanaugh.
When Trump nominated Kavanaugh in July, Democrats leapt to oppose him, saying that past statements and opinions showed he’d be a threat to the Roe v. Wade case that assured the right to abortion. They said he also seemed too ready to rule for Trump in a possible federal court case against the president.
Yet Kavanaugh’s path to confirmation seemed unfettered until Ford and two other women emerged with sexual misconduct allegations from the 1980s.
Kavanaugh replaces the retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was a swing vote on issues such as abortion, campaign finance and same-sex marriage.
St. Joseph Police have identified the body found Wednesday afternoon in the area of North 13th and Powell Street.
