Which Gladstone? Britain’s longest-serving Victorian prime minister, born in Liverpool 200 years ago today, is not easily summarised. He belonged to an era to which ours does not easily relate. Gladstone was the quintessential Victorian liberal, yet his father was a slaveholder. No prime minister has spoken with greater moral force about the injustices of [...]
Sept. 17 – A 24-year-old Jackson County woman died from the H1N1 virus. He was the first Jackson Countian and just the second Missourian to die from the strain of influenza also known as swine flu.Sept. 18 – MoKAN Dock Dogs premiered at the Blue Springs Fall Fun Festival. It was a huge hit, drawing [...]
After his oral exam, he characteristically complained that it had been too easy. When the examiner tried to change topics, Gladstone exclaimed: ‘No sir, if you please, we will not leave it yet’ and carried on talking.But unlike today’s spoiled politicians, Gladstone never took his advantages for granted.He may have been born with a silver [...]
Take a minute to look at these penguins. They can’t fly. They’re abnormally sized. Don’t they look just a bit (ahem) queer for birds? Notice the evening-wear look, just a bit sleek and fashionable? Now read your Bible. Go ahead, we’ll wait a second. Did you see any mention of penguins? No. And we all [...]
Sells is just one of the many customers who have been taking advantage of the All Wrapped Up gift wrapping business at Independence Center this month. The project is developed, organized and run completely by students in the E-Studies program though the Fort Osage Career and Technology Center.Geared for students who have completed lower level [...]
Arkansas: An alleged leader of sex trafficking ring pleads not guilty to the charges that could send him to federal prison for life. The federal prosecutor charged four defendants for running prostitution ring using at least three under age women and more than 17 women. North Carolina: A church at Charlotte is purchasing a facility to care [...]
Once she arrived in the U.S., the young woman was forced to engage in sexual activities with 25 clients daily and was regularly abused by her captors. After she gave birth in November of 2007, the owners of the illegal establishment barred her from seeking medical treatment for her infant, [...]
Ackerman contends she’s not defending all prostitutes.…(2 of 2)”But if you have someone who appears to have committed prostitution and their ‘boyfriend’ took their ID away, that’s an indication that there’s something else going on,” she said. “If the perpetrator provided them drugs to get them to engage in the activity, or if he’s threatened [...]
Marshall does something quite different. Nine is the movie adaptation of a Broadway musical that has twice won the Tony Award. That musical is a stage version of 8 1/2. Fellini’s screen alter ego, Guido, is the hero, not some thinly disguised version of Marshall himself.The movie Nine, in fact, is saturated in Fellini’s own [...]
Although trafficking usually is considered a coastal phenomenon, more alleged traffickers 36 in the past three years have been prosecuted by federal authorities in western Missouri than anywhere in the nation.One Kansas City case, involving Giant Labor Solutions, is believed to be the largest labor trafficking ring uncovered in U.S. history.Around the country, [...]
