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Independence was the farthest point westward on the Missouri River where the steamboats or other cargo vessels could travel, due to the convergence of the Kansas River with the Missouri River approximately six miles west of town, near the current Kansas-Missouri border. Independence immediately became a jumping-off point for the emerging fur ...
The Examiner is the daily newspaper of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Independence, Blue Springs and Grain Valley. It is published five days a week – Tuesday through Saturday – and its webpage is at www.examiner.net. The Examiner was first published as a weekly newspaper in 1898 by Col. William Southern.
Sharon Kinne (born Sharon Elizabeth Hall; November 30, 1939 – January 21, 2022), also known as Jeanette Pugliese, La Pistolera in Mexico, and Diedra Glabus (later Diedra Ell) in Canada, was an American murderer and prison escapee who was convicted in Mexico for one murder and is suspected of two others in the United States, one for which she was acquitted at trial.
Independence Deputy Police Chief Ken Jarnagin says he was the only department employee disciplined in the city’s overtime investigation — an issue he “had no involvement with,” according ...
The "Missouri Crisis" was resolved at first in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise cleared the way for Missouri's entry to the union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise stated that the remaining portion of the Louisiana Territory above the 36°30′ line was to be free from slavery. This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted.
The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture , as well as the ...
The road closed as a precaution for crews to evaluate any damage, the Missouri Department of Transportation said. The section from Truman Road to U.S. 24 began to reopen 8 a.m. Saturday.
Barbara J. Potts (born February 18, 1932) is an American politician and the first woman elected Mayor of Independence, Missouri (1990 population 112,304 [1]). Potts served in office at a time when fewer than 10% of US cities had women mayors. [2] She also served on the Independence City Council. [3]