Month: March 2019
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. ? Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the table and turns on a digital recorder. The…
Ernest Gunther (Ernie) Classen, age 90, of Iola, passed away Sunday, March 10, 2019, at his sons residence in Humboldt. Ernie was born Aug. 29, 1928, in Uetersen, Germany, to Hinrich Ernest Classen and Minna…
Zelda Mae Varner, 89, formally of Le Roy, died Saturday, March 9, 2019 at West Ridge Place Assisted Living Center in Sikeston, Mo. A Celebration of Life will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at…
I have the privilege to coach the Southwind District 4-H Livestock Teams Skillathon, Quiz Bowl, Meats and Livestock Judging. Working with youth who are the future of our agriculture community, and teaching basic livestock…
A recent article in The Atlantic, titled The Invisibility of Older Women, by Akiko Busch, struck a deep chord. Having turned 65 last month, I have been welcomed, on more than one occasion, to the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A poison pill in Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys plan for expanding Medicaid aimed at reassuring wary Republican legislators wouldnt actually end the expansion if the federal government backed off its promises…
HEJERE, Ethiopia (AP) Britain joined a growing number of countries grounding a new Boeing plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines disaster as a global team of investigators began picking through the rural crash site…
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Foodborne diseases…
Dear Carolyn: My husband has recently become very anxious, specifically about fire danger. Yes, we live in a fire-prone area, and there have been several big fires in the past few years. But our house…
Dear Dr. Roach: Why is pain measured by numbers? I have severe pain, and doctors do not know what to do when I say it is an 11 on a scale of 1-10. My pain…
