With a depleted trust fund and rising expenses, Mount Mora Cemetery, the only cemetery in Northwest Missouri to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has become dependent on the assistance of volunteers. Enter the Missouri Air National Guard. The 139th Airlift Wing adopted the cemetery last year as a community volunteer project, thanks to the efforts of Lt. Col. Grace Link, said Col. Steve Cotter, the wing commander.

A St. Joseph Police Department officer fired multiple shots at a suspect who allegedly tried to run him down with a vehicle Friday.

Gladys (Wilkinson) Catron, 92, grew up surrounded by baseball players and love. Her father, James L. Wilkinson, was a baseball pioneer who owned the All Nations and the Kansas City Monarchs baseball teams. As a young lady, Mrs. Catron kept the baseball and accounting books and got to know players who would go on, like her father, to be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y.
She always loved baseball, antiques, family and ice cream, said Ed Catron, her son.

A call for help at about 8:10 a.m. Thursday sent more than a dozen officers to the southern edge of the city on Ajax Road searching for a man believed to have a rifle and a female hostage.

Domestic violence call ends in a extensive search.

A New Jersey music store has a trombone for sale that belonged to St. Joseph native Arthur Pryor, and the asking price is just $250,000.

Buchanan County voters will have the final say Aug. 5 on a new property tax that would assist this county’s senior citizens.

Emergency personnel scrambled to save lives Tuesday as fire swept through the corner of the two-story brick Mid-Town Apartments on the southeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets. The fire was confined to the first-floor apartment on the northwest corner of the building, said Steve Henrichson, an inspector with the St. Joseph Fire Department. That’s the apartment of Harry Gardner, said Greg Frisbie, one of the building’s owners. The man admitted that he fell asleep smoking, Mr. Henrichson said.

Emergency personnel scrambled to save lives Tuesday as fire swept through the corner of the two-story brick Mid-Town Apartments on the southeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets. The fire was confined to the first-floor apartment on the northwest corner of the building, said Steve Henrichson, an inspector with the St. Joseph Fire Department.

Local giving is vital at Second Harvest of Greater St. Joseph for feeding the hungry in Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri. And today’s 15th annual drive by the National Association of Letter Carriers, Local No. 195 is a necessity.