In the course of 22 years of incarceration, Lee Aquil has honed his artistic abilities and been a source of inspiration to other inmates who want to exercise their creative inclinations. // Click here to purchase
Miki Harris, co-chairwoman of the first Agency Holiday Mart, wears her flair on her head and shows some visitors a product. Proceeds from the event went to Adopt-A-Family of St. Joseph. // Click here to purchase
Emergency crews from the St. Joseph police and fire departments attend to the victim of a one-vehicle accident just north of the U.S. Highway 36 overpass on Interstate 229 Saturday morning. // Click here to purchase
St. Joseph Mayor Ken Shearin cheers a group of children on as they flip the ‘magical’ switch to light up this year’s edition of the Christmas lights in Krug Park. // Click here to purchase
After more than 50 years farming land in the DeKalb, Mo., area Bill Guinn is still able to say ‘I enjoy just about any of it.’ At 74, he’s farming about 1,600 acres of corn and soybeans this year with no plans to retire in the near future. // Click here to purchase
Participants in the Holiday-Prep Camp, part of Heartland Health’s Women’s Wellness Initiative, stretch out by doing yoga in the atrium of Leah Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University Saturday morning. // Click here to purchase
The model home in the Greens of Ashland development has been completed. The development will have a open house from 1 to 4 p.m. today and Sunday. // Click here to purchase
Marta and Ron Love identify which turkey they'll celebrate the holiday with at Hy-vee Tuesday, November 18. Mr. and Mrs. Love planned on celebrating Thanksgiving with famiily a few days earlier than usual. // Click here to purchase
A silver tea pot and silver cups were found at the Jesse James Antique Mall on N. Belt Highway. The prices of silver has gone up, leaving some wondering what to do with their silver items. // Click here to purchase
Dr. Thomas Spencer, a history professor at Northwest Missouri State University, has recently published a piece on the Honey War, which reshaped the Missouri-Iowa border in the 1830s. // Click here to purchase
Alexander Barksdale, 2, left, and Aleena Barksdale, 3, play with a restored helm of a ship at the Remington Nature Center of St. Joseph as their mother, Joeann Pfaff, is seen looking on in a reflection. Ms. Pfaff and her children were part of a visiting group from the Community Action Partnership’s Early Head Start Program Wednesday morning. // Click here to purchase
Just after 5 a.m. Saturday, the first morning of open deer hunting season, hunters wearing blaze orange caps gather at the Forest City Diner in Forest City, Mo., to fill up before venturing into the wilderness. Later in the day, few hunters reported success, with many citing poor conditions such as too much wind and cold as to why the deer were scarce in Holt County. // Click here to purchase
Retired Lt. Col. Frank Flesher is the executive director of the National Military Heritage Museum in St. Joseph. Mr. Flesher served two tours of duty with the 27th Infantry Regiment in Korea. // Click here to purchase
Looking at a map of the Korean peninsula, depicting significant markers of the Korean War, retired Lt. Col. Frank Flesher points out where he was the ‘happy day’ of July 27, 1953, when the truce that ended the war was signed. // Click here to purchase
Featured speaker at the Missouri Undergraduate Psychology Conference on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University, Grady P. Bray, Ph.D., tells a powerful personal tale of survival in a 1980 Las Vegas hotel to begin his presentation Friday morning. ‘In every crises there is an opportunity, and in every opportunity there is crisis,’ he said. // Click here to purchase
The City Council will vote Monday to approve entering an agreement to issue $160 million in industrial revenue bonds for the expansion of Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. // Click here to purchase
Mary George with some of the checks for her organization charity. // Click here to purchase
Wearing one of the new air tanks and masks the St. Joseph Fire Department recently acquired, Snorkel Captain Bob Bangerter crawls along the side of department headquarters during a simulation exercise testing the new equipment. According to officials the new devices, or simulated breathing apparatuses, are state of the art and thus make firefighters’ jobs safer. // Click here to purchase
Retired Air Force Master Sgt. Bob Kirtley, right, and his wife, Doris, bow their heads in prayer with other veterans and their families during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Mayes Memorial Armory on Tuesday night. // Click here to purchase
Dale Wetmore and his wife Karen are raffling Spirit to raise money for a friend with cancer. Spirit is a 5-year-old golden buckskin with a ‘gentle disposition.’ // Click here to purchase
