A group of British Boy Scouts tasted American scouting this week at Camp Geiger northwest of St. Joseph.
“I definitely wanted to do something American, so I might try some tomahawk throwing,” said Joe Reade, 15.
Knives, rifles and shotguns aren’t allowed in the British Scouting Association.

St. Joseph Police and Buchanan County Sheriff's deputies take one man into custody after a 4 hour stand off in southern Buchanan County.

A four-hour siege ended with the arrest of a man who barricaded himself in his Buchanan County home north of Faucett, Mo.

Local governments started wrangling Wednesday about their portion of the bill for financing $36 million in Missouri River levee repairs. The city of St. Joseph, Buchanan County and the three area levee districts will have to pay $12.6 million as their portion for design and construction, said Bruce Woody, St. Joseph’s director of public works and transportation. To re-certify the levees, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to raise the Airport and Elwood-Gladden levees 3 feet above the 100-year Missouri River flood level. Any increase in height means the South St. Joseph Levee also has to be increased, Mr. Woody said.

A man accused of slashing a woman’s throat and attempting to rob a Winthrop, Mo., convenience store returned to court Tuesday.

Vandals closed Hyde Park pool Monday. Pool personnel locked the gate and posted a vandalism notice Monday morning as temperatures climbed into the 80-degree range.

Geese, ducks, swallows and deer, along with a host of other wildlife, have something in common, according to the Missouri Air National Guard. “They can all become hazards to aircraft and cause expensive problems,” said Lt. Col. Kris Pankau, safety officer for the 139th Airlift Wing. In the last fiscal year, the Wing forked out about $192,000 in repairs because of avian and wildlife accidents, Mr. Pankau said.

Folks back home may wonder where 1,000 members of Missouri’s Army National Guard, including about 150 from Northwest Missouri, are during this holiday weekend.

A demolition company started work Monday on a fire-ravaged Sixth Street building that used to be part of Eshelman’s Music Co. And the city scrambled to deal with another Sixth Street building about two blocks away that collapsed sometime before Monday morning.

St. Joseph is blessed and cursed with museums. Each works at carving out a niche and finding community support, and all struggle for survival.
The St. Joseph Museums, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, the Fire Museum, the Doll Museum, Robidoux Row, the National Military Heritage Museum, the Pony Express Museum, the Patee House and Jesse James museums all have a story to tell.