A website launched online last month alleging the four independent candidates running for county office “harvested” signatures to acquire their places on the November ballot at senior care facilities.
At the Missouri State Fair, Maddi and Collin Risa of Camden Point chose to make an impact beyond the show ring by donating their market hog through Missouri Farmers Care Foundation’s Hogs for Hunger, a pillar of the Drive to Feed Kids. Maddi and Collin are members of Platte County 4-H.
Summer projects from Proposition K.I.D.S. passed by northern Platte County voters are nearing completion in the North Platte R-I School District.
A Platte County jury found a Kansas City man guilty on Aug. 20 of raping a 15-year-old girl at a New Years Eve party on Jan. 1, 2019 in Kansas City. Harley A. Marolt, 28, was convicted after a four-day jury trial of statutory rape in the second degree.
Braden Hendee expected nothing more than another summer round with a friend at Shiloh Springs Golf Club on July 5.
Eight years after Landry Shamet became the first Park Hill High School graduate to reach the National Basketball Association, the 2015 graduate has reached another milestone no other Trojan has accomplished.
Commitment and perseverance are paying off for Anna Anderson, who is now taking another big leap in her flag football career.
Platte County senior infielder Brennan McLaughlin was named the Class 5 Player of the Year for a second straight season, leading all baseball honorees in postseason awards.
More than five dozen Class 5 baseball teams concluded the season in defeat, but a critical performance from senior starting pitcher Owen Bane provided Platte County with an opportunity to end its season in the win column at Ozark Mountain Sports Complex.More than five dozen Class 5 baseball teams concluded the season in defeat, but a critical performance from senior starting pitcher Owen Bane provided Platte County with an opportunity to end its season in the win column at Ozark Mountain Sports Complex.
The KCI Conference honored eight local baseball players as all-conference performers for the 2026 season.
Landry Shamet, a Park Hill Class of 2015 graduate and eight-year veteran of the National Basketball Association, has become a key figure for the New York Knicks over the past two seasons. Now, he aims at helping the Knicks end a 53-year drought without an NBA title.
For the first time in more than three decades, Park Hill has a state champion triple jumper. Sophomore standout Nikyah Chappell became the triple jump champion after earning a state medal in the 400-meter run at the MSHSAA Class 5 State Championships on March 30 in Jefferson City.
Simon Ketter saved his best run for his last one at the MSHSAA Class 5 State Track and Field Championships on May 30. After a hard push in the second half of the 1,600-meter run, Ketter earned himself the biggest reward he could get: a state championship medal. It was the first time a Park Hill South student-athlete had ever won state in the 1,600.
With the season hanging in the balance in two critical postseason games, Platte County’s baseball team has turned to Zach Brown. Both times, Brown has delivered immensely on home turf.
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A Kansas City man was sentenced to the maximum term of 15 years in prison on Aug. 27 for shooting at a female driver of a separate vehicle near Interstate 635 in Riverside. Davion Gunion, 25, pleaded guilty on June 23 to the class B felony of assault in the first degree.