The City Council of St Joseph has signed off on an ordinance that requires you to clean up behind your dog’s behind, if he or she leaves a load on public property, or someone else’s private property.

If Fido or Spot leaves a pile, and you don’t pick it up, you could get a citation, but only if it’s witnesses by an animal control officer, or a citizen willing to testify.

If you don’t know, here’s a special training video for you. And, if you haven’t already seen the video below that, a little canine celebration for you.

Owners overwhelmingly approved a proposal last week, but some unresolved issues still needed to be reviewed to satisfy players; the owners do not need to vote again.

The sides worked through the weekend and wrapped up the details Monday morning on a final pact that is for 10 years, without an opt-out clause, a person familiar with said.

Owners decided in 2008 to opt out of the league’s old labor contract, which expired this March. That’s when the owners locked out the players, creating the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987.

No details have been released on the Chiefs training camp yet. A semi was seen unloading supplies for the Chiefs at the facility Monday morning.

According to NFL rules, the Chiefs can start practicing 15 days before the teams first preseason game. That would be this Thursday.

The Chiefs and Missouri Western have everything ready to go for camp.  The Chiefs will announce their plans for training camp Tuesday morning during a press conference in the Kansas City Training Facility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gower is under a boil order as a leak in a supply line to the town’s water tower and the town may run out of water soon.

The leak is out in the water district,Dekalb County P.W.S.P 1, which is outside of the towns control.

The boil order was issued for the entire water district and the leak is somewhere up the line that feeds the water tower for the town.

City officials say they are working to bring in bottled and non-bottled water for residents.

They are also bringing in porta-potty’s as well. Gower officials say workers from the water district are trying to track down the leak now. Clinton County has issued a county-wide burn-ban as well.

 

 

A so-called break from the heat wave comes this weekend when temperatures will drop slightly.

The break comes Sunday when the predicted high will drop to near 90 degrees, compared to near 100 degrees for more than a week in the Midwest.  But that’s not before the National Weather Service predicts a high of 101 degrees for Saturday.

Temperatures by mid-week next week will inch back up to near 95 degrees by Wednesday.  If you need a place to cool off, visit the Department of Heath’s Cooling Center Locator by typing in a St Joseph zip-code.

In the meantime, the unhealthy levels of heat and humidity have made their way to the eastern half of the country. According to NOAA’s National Weather Service, approximately 132 million people in the United States were under a heat alert (Excessive Heat Warning or Watch or Heat Advisory) as of Friday morning.

Temperatures in the 90s to near 100 degrees will feel as hot as 115 degrees or higher when factoring in the high humidity.

Record high temperatures are likely to be set in some locations — adding to the more than 1000 records that have been set or tied so far this month. You can watch a graphic of how the heat-wave has moved across the nation below.

A church truly seeking to serve others will jump in wherever there’s a need, even if it’s a little unusual.

That’s certainly the case at the First Baptist Church in Carthage, where members found themselves collecting, cleaning, and returning thousands of photographs blown out of homes by the Joplin tornado.

Music Minister Thad Beeler says he felt the need to help people get their memories back.

Check out their work at www.joplinrescuedphotos.org

Craig has lifted an evacuation order put in place nearly four weeks ago. Residents were ordered to leave the Holt County community in late June as water from the Missouri and Big Tarkio rivers approached.

The river has fallen nearly three feet from its record crest of 27.26 feet on June 27. City manager Terry Eaton says with river levels holding steady, officials feel comfortable letting residents return.

Eaton says the gas company reconnected homes and businesses on Monday.

Craig was heavily sandbagged as the Missouri rose in June, and Eaton says no homes in the town of about 300 people were flooded.

Eaton says officials will continue monitoring river levels.