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Platte Co. Attorney asks US Supreme Court to consider his reprimand

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PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) – Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a reprimand he received for publicly naming some residents of a northwest Missouri town who defended a convicted child sex offender.

Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd

The Missouri Supreme Court in May reprimanded Zahnd for violating professional conduct rules but didn’t suspend his license or limit his ability to remain as prosecutor.

The Missouri’s Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel filed a complaint against Zahnd after he issued a news release naming residents of Dearborn who wrote letters supporting Darren Paden while Paden was awaiting sentencing for sexually abusing a young girl.

Zahnd said in a news release Thursday that his letter was truthful and contained already-public information. And he said the Missouri Supreme Court didn’t fully explain its reason for the order.

Rain and storms likely with temps in the low 70s

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Thunderstorms will move into the area for Thursday. Some of these storms could be strong, with some gusty winds around 30 to 40 mph and small hail in the pea to dime size range. There could be some redevelopment of storms later tonight in western Missouri, but the bulk of the rainy activity will be across central Missouri Thursday night. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:

Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 73. Light south southeast wind becoming south 9 to 14 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. South southeast wind 9 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. Heat index values as high as 97. Southwest wind 8 to 11 mph.

Friday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1 a.m. Mostly clear, with a low around 69. West southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming light and variable after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 94. South southwest wind 5 to 9 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 74.

Sunday: Partly sunny, with a high near 93.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 75.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 74.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 89.

New students arrive at Missouri Western on Move-In Day

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Hellos, goodbyes and a lot of boxes were all a part of Move-In Day for about 1,000 new students on the Missouri Western State University campus Wednesday. 

“It’s really exciting, it’s like a whole range of emotions for Move-In Day,” said Dixie Williams, Missouri Western Associate Director of Admissions. “You’ve got the students who are a little bit nervous and really excited and they’re just kind of unsure of everything, but learning it as they go. Then you have the parents who are a little tired and a little sad and all those kinds of things… I’ve already seen some tears.”

Williams could be seen driving around campus Wednesday on a golf cart, helping with traffic or lifting boxes. Williams said there are many people involved with Move-in Day and making sure students feel welcome, including Griffon Greeters, upperclassmen, staff and faculty and student organizations.

“(There’s) lots of excitement, especially with Missouri Western staff and faculty. We’re excited to have our new students come and we’re excited for current students to come back,” Williams said. “It’s really important that they engage today, especially the new students, because they meet a lot of different students, get to know some people, make their first friends in college.”

Griffon Edge, which is Missouri Western’s extended orientation program, begins Thursday. The program, which has about 1,000 students enrolled, helps prepare them for the beginning of classes on Monday and includes a welcome rally, social activities and more.

Brief: Liquor Delivery, Kobach and Trump, Heat and Rain Coming

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The Kansas GOP nominee for Governor continues to support President Trump.

“The Manafort conviction has nothing to do with Russian collusion and illustrates how the special counsel has gotten off track from the original purpose of the investigation,” Kobach said.

Did an Independent candidate for Governor hit a serious roadblock?

“It’s unlikely a court would say that a processing glitch by the county would be enough to disqualify a candidate that otherwise got the signatures,” said University of Kansas law professor Richard Levy.

Other accusations give analysts more pause. One claims a person gathering signatures for the campaign has a felony conviction, making the person ineligible for that work. Though he is only responsible for 323 of the signatures, the letter says there are “at least three examples of questionable signature gatherers.” The letter also points out suspicious timelines associated with some affidavits.

 

Seatbelt safety continues to dominate concerns when it comes to traffic safety.

 

The forecast has rain and heat on the way.

A Flood Warning is in effect until Saturday.

Fall is one month away. This tweet from last night:

 

Do you tip your liquor delivery person?

“This will not allow for drones to come and drop alcohol on your front porch, as much as some people might like that,” Justus said. “This will not be a situation where non-humans deliver alcohol to you.”

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Temps around 80 with a chance of rain on the way

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After another mild day on Wednesday thunderstorms will return to the area for Thursday and Friday. Most of the area should see at least some wetting rain, which will help out with the drought. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:

Today: Patchy fog before 10 a.m. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 79. North wind 3 to 5 mph.

Tonight: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 61. Calm wind becoming southeast around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Thursday: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Increasing clouds, with a high near 75. South southeast wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. Mostly cloudy, with a steady temperature around 73. South southeast wind 11 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8 a.m. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 89. South wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 67.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 93.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 74.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 74.

Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 91. Breezy.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.

Officials: Church employee embezzled more than $400,000

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BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) – The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph says a longtime employee at a Blue Springs church embezzled $446,000 during the past several years.

The diocese said Tuesday the woman worked at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church for decades but the embezzlement occurred over the last seven years. Diocese spokesman Jack Smith says the woman agreed to repay the money within 60 days after she was confronted last week. The diocese didn’t name the employee.

A member of the parish’s finance council discovered that the employee had been writing checks to herself and entering the names of vendors on accounting stubs.

The findings of the diocese’s investigation were turned over to the Blue Springs police department on Monday.

Brief: Feds on Duck Boats, Republican Gov Endorsement Warning

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Will Republicans endorse a Democrat for Governor of Kansas because of Kris Kobach?

Hineman warned that support for independent candidate Greg Orman or Democratic nominee Sen. Laura Kelly “could well be a career-ending move for anyone who chose to do so.”

“Please do not do it!” Hineman said. “ Your own vote is of course your own. But do not endorse, do not publicly support, do not join a ‘Republicans for..’ group, and do not write a check. Any of those actions are very inappropriate for a Republican office-holder. I fear there would be serious repercussions.”

 

The crisis pushed Marshal Ulrich from the business. He sold most of his farm equipment in 1985 and worked as a grade school custodian in Kansas for 25 years after that.

“I hated to give it up. It was a dream, you know, to make farming my career, but it just didn’t work out that way,” he said.

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“Once this trade war ends, how do you regain trust? … How do you rebuild the agreements that were thrown away? That’s the difficult issue,” Penner said.

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“The impacts here are not short-term,” he said. “They very likely will be long term, and there’s probably things that may come out of this that we don’t even know and can’t think through right now. And that’s what bothers me.”

Alana Miller, a Coast Guard spokeswoman:

“We identified stuff that could point to some sort of criminal activity,” said “And we are not in the business of criminal investigations.”

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Don Ledford, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office:

“What I can say is that the Department of Justice policy is that we don’t comment on investigations,” Ledford said. “We don’t even confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.”

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It isn’t known what the focus of the criminal investigation is, but there is a federal law regarding negligence or misconduct when operating a vessel.

According to that law: “Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”

 

Priest sex abuse victims demand that Missouri and Kansas officials conduct a comprehensive investigation into clergy misconduct and cover-ups similar to the one that revealed widespread problems in Pennsylvania.

Randles said the findings of the Pennsylvania investigation were “shocking” and led her to sit down to try to figure out how many priests in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas had been similarly abusive. She came up with 230 names. But she said only a handful of priests have been charged and one bishop punished.

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Performing Arts Association season to begin with Tony Danza

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The Saint Joseph Performing Arts Association will kick off its 2018-2019 season next month.

Performing Arts Association Executive Director Beth Sharp said the season will start with Tony Danza: Standards & Stories at 7:30 p.m. on September 13th at the Missouri Theater.

“I received an email from the agency… and I went, ‘Tony Danza? Wow.’ I clicked on… the video and I didn’t know that Tony Danza could sing and dance. He’s a full blown entertainer,” Sharp said. “Everybody knows him from ‘Who’s the Boss’ or ‘Taxi’ and thought he’s an actor and was really popular in the 70s and 80s, but he can sing and dance.”

The upcoming season will also feature an a cappella group, an Elton John tribute and more.

For a full list of performances, more information or tickets, click here or call (816) 279-1225.

Mostly sunny with temps around 80

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Cool and dry conditions expected through at least Wednesday night, before another round of showers and thunderstorms move in for Thursday and Thursday night. Here’s the 7-day forecast from the National Weather Service:

Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. North northwest wind 9 to 11 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. North wind 5 to 8 mph.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. North northeast wind 3 to 5 mph.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Light and variable wind.

Thursday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. South southeast wind 5 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Thursday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 68. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 92.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 73.

Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 72.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 91.

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