To say this is a tense week for Scott Adams is an understatement. Updated: Mar. 11, 2010 9:38 PM |Full Story

Despite its status as a finalist in the quest for All America City status last spring, Belton will sit out this year's competition due to the economy. Updated: Mar. 10, 2010 6:50 PM |Full Story

Olympian. Definition: "Of or relating to Mount Olympus in Thessaly." Updated: Mar. 10, 2010 6:51 PM |Full Story

In what could only be viewed as the luckiest of twists, five motorists survived a devastating Tuesday afternoon accident on U.S. 71 north of M-58 that closed parts of the freeway for hours. Updated: Mar. 10, 2010 6:04 PM |Full Story

Dillon Lashley, editor-in-chief of the Cutlass, Belton's High School newspaper, edits a story written by one of his classmates, attempting to concentrate in the noisy classroom serving as a newsroom. Lashley makes corrections to the article but he doesn't have a red pen in hand, instead he is armed with a computer mouse and a keyboard. Updated: Mar. 4, 2010 12:59 PM |Full Story

Immunization clinics sponsored by Cass County Health Department will cease at the end of March. Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 4:29 PM |Full Story

Two teenaged employees at the Raymore Price Chopper supermarket were injured in a freak parking lot accident Friday afternoon after a third employee lost control of a co-worker’s vehicle and crashed into a line of shopping carts. Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 4:25 PM |Full Story

A Harrisonville man pleaded guilty in federal court last week to conducting an illegal gambling business that relied on a Web site with a computer server located in Costa Rica. Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 4:19 PM |Full Story

Kansas City Power & Light Co. requested a six-month extension from the city of Peculiar for completing road improvements to a substation but the board instead on Tuesday gave the utility three months to meet its agreement. Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 4:41 PM |Full Story

Tiffany Klassen, director of the Cass County Health Department, has been working with the Parks and Recreation departments in Belton, Raymore and Pleasant Hill to create a wellness challenge encouraging residents to become more active. Updated: Mar. 10, 2010 6:21 PM |Full Story

The public school funding crisis in Missouri grew deeper last week when the state's budget office announced that it would withhold 2 percent of its June payment to school districts – money that had been counted on to fund the current year's budget. Updated: Mar. 4, 2010 12:58 PM |Full Story

A devastating loss has turned to determination for the Goodson family of Peculiar. Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 3:21 PM |Full Story