Carter Lanning, Platte City Middle School sixth grader, met NFL legend Peyton Manning in Aurora, Colo., on Sunday, June 12. Carter Lanning participated in the Triple Crown Baseball Summer Slam Tournament June 11-12 with his teammates from Building Champions-SC. Their team was one of three out-of-state teams playing in Colorado, and ended up winning the tournament. Peyton Manning’s son, Marshall, was a member of one of the teams participating in the tournament.
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Former President Gerald Ford, in a Platte County appearance Saturday, described President Jimmy Carter as a man who “tries to make himself a hero out of disasters he has created” and likened him to an arsonist “who starts fires and...
Joseph Gates had always told his wife, Juanita, and their nine children that he would buy Juanita a new car if he won the Missouri Lottery. So when he came home from work on May 14 and announced that a...
Riverside police opened a homicide investigation this week after entering an apartment to check the welfare of a man who had reportedly failed to appear at his place of employment for several days. The man was found dead in his...
EDITOR: First of all my sincere condolences to you and your entire family on the loss of your brother, Randy. When I got your paper yesterday I immediately opened it to the middle, which I never do, and saw your...
