Cops and Kids, an annual event designed to promote positive interaction between young people and local police officers, drew a crowd of more than 500 people to downtown Platte City the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 10. Highlights included booths and vendors, free food options including hot dogs and hamburgers, and a mobile laser tag field with inflatable obstacles. Kansas City Chiefs mascot KC Wolf was also on hand.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Baker, Jr. of Platte City announce the engagement of their daughter, Lori Ann Baker, to Devin Sherry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Sherry of Smithville. The future bride is a 1980 graduate of Platte County...
Robert Vick, the Dearborn reserve police officer suspended for 30 days by the city’s board of aldermen last month, has been reinstated. This action came at the board’s meeting last Wednesday. Vick had been suspended after many residents of Dearborn...
Platte City police expect to submit a case file to juvenile authorities this week regarding a report they received from a local 17-year-old girl claiming to have been raped and sodomized over a span of four years by her step-brother....
Just reread my column from last week, I was in a dark place, you probably should have sent help. Try to be a better reader going forward. I did not make it out to any protests last week. I voiced...
