(Missouri Independent) – Roy Blunt’s decision not to seek a third term in the U.S. Senate will have cascading effects across Missouri’s political universe. The state has no shortage of ambitious Republican officials, each of whom can make a legitimate claim at being the strongest candidate. So will the 2022 GOP primary turn into a […]
Keith Warren, a 50-year-old resident of Trenton, MO, passed away at 7:03 PM on Thursday, December 1, 2016, at St Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, December 5, 2016, at the First Christian Church in Trenton. A scheduled visitation will be held from 5 to […]
An entire host of events and activities is on tap for the Putnam County Fair in Unionville today. A Star Wars feature will be strolling the grounds this morning from 8:30 until 11 o’clock, with an antique tractor parade and display scheduled for 10:30. A 4-H and FFA livestock buyer appreciation lunch and a taxidermy […]
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) Carl Edwards took his first celebratory back flip of the season and easily stuck the landing. “I considered not doing it,” he said. “I haven’t done one for a while.” He earned that acrobatic moment because his No. 19 Toyota gripped Bristol Motor Speedway much better than his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Four races in NASCAR’s top three series over eight days – and Kyle Busch won them all. From Martinsville to Texas, Busch had consecutive weekend sweeps, something last done in NASCAR 25 years ago. “I think the magic is Kyle Busch, but that’s just me,” Busch said with a smile before […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Carl Edwards became the seventh different pole winner in the seven NASCAR Sprint Cup races this season, posting the fast lap of 194.609 mph in the final round of qualifying for Saturday night’s Duck Commander 500 at the Texas track where he has won three times. “My confidence level was pretty […]
AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) When Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards started bumping side-by-side on the final lap Sunday, many NASCAR fans had to recall the image of Edwards grabbing Harvick’s throat in a 2008 garage altercation. Or maybe they thought about the time two years later when Harvick called Edwards “fake” and Edwards responded by saying […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) Kurt Busch has won the pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race in his hometown, claiming the spot for the second straight week with a top speed of 196.328 mph on a day of dizzying speeds. After setting the track qualifying speed record in Round 1, Busch won his second career pole […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) NASCAR has suspended the crew chief for driver Martin Truex Jr. for one Sprint Cup race and fined him $50,000 for a rules violation at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Cole Pearn will sit out this weekend’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for a roof flap violation on the No. 78 found during […]
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) Jimmie Johnson reached another milestone in his brilliant NASCAR career. This one was really special. Win No. 76. Right up there with the Intimidator. Johnson’s victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday pushed him into a tie for seventh place on the career list with the late Dale Earnhardt, who was killed […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Denny Hamlin burst onto the scene a decade ago when he showed up at Daytona International Speedway as a rookie and won the first exhibition race of Speedweeks. Hamlin beat Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon that night, and an article the next day from a newspaper […]
