Students arrive, sign out each other’s names, go over vocabulary and spend a large chunk of time learning how to sign several songs. If this doesn’t sound like a normal college class, it’s because it isn’t.

Some of my earliest memories involve voting, memories that have come to the forefront during this volatile and vital election year.

One is called “Grand Ol’ Gang.” The other “True Blues.” Both political oil paintings, created by Andy Thomas, have Republicans and Democrats buzzing.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain talks about the state of the economy at the Truman Library and Museum in Independence on Wednesday morning. McCain then returned to Washington to vote on the revised economic recovery bill. -- The Examiner

A Noel woman and original board member of the New-Mac Regional Humane Society has been charged with stealing more than $89,000 from that organization.

In July 1944, Lensy Lane was a U.S. Army infantryman crossing the English Channel to Normandy to reinforce the still-tenuous Allied beachhead in northern France.

Although Linn County Prosecutor Tracy Carlson understands that economic hard times will prompt a few people to steal metal for scrap, he has no intention of allowing that crime to go unpunished and wants local citizens to know that recent legislation now makes that kind of theft a felony.

The numbers were a bit lower than in the past, but approximately 750 people came to Barton County to see the largest remaining tract of untilled, unspoiled tall grass prairie in Missouri.

Greetings from Gladstone, Mo. It’s basically Kansas City on the north side, and travelers weave in and out of the city limits by just driving down any road.

Federal child pornography charges have been filed against a Columbia, Mo., man following his arrest in May at a Carthage hotel to meet someone he thought was 13 years old to have sex.

Jason Whittle returned to his home state of Missouri on Sunday as a member of the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Whittle played for the Camdenton Lakers under Bob Shore as a high school student and now is a reserve lineman for the 4-0 Bills. 

Larry Johnson rushed for 198 yards and scored two touchdowns to help the Chiefs pull out a 33-19 victory over Denver on Sunday, a performance that helped the Chiefs snap a 12-game losing streak.

Maybe it was the Gorilla offense taking what Central Missouri gave them. Or maybe the No. 7-ranking Gorilla passing game is just that good.

The staff of an auto parts store received an unexpected, and unwanted, delivery Saturday: a shipment of 300 pounds of marijuana.

Around 150 people continued a crash course on “going green” Saturday when they attended the second day of the third annual Energy, Efficiency and the Environment Conference at Crowder College in Neosho, Mo.