Like many high school students, Eric Hughey struggled early on to pinpoint just what he wanted to do for a living. As a sophomore at Lee’s Summit West High School, Hughey said he didn’t even have any ideas. He has two older brothers — one chose architecture and the other works with computers — but neither of those careers seemed appealing.

On Friday, commuters coming from Interstate 470 to Lee’s Summit will have one more interchange to help dilute rush hour traffic. The Pryor Road Interchange is scheduled to open to traffic on the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 15.

Not too long after becoming airborne — on our way to Jefferson City — one of the crew chiefs on the B-17 gave the signal that we were free to move around. The only places designated as off-limits were the tailgun and the ball turret. With that, I told Dick Greiner it looked like he would have to fly waistgun on this trip. He was disappointed that he couldn’t get down in the ball turret once more. He’s 82 going on 18.

All new parents love to show off their newborns, but one local couple has a little more incentive to talk about their infant.

On Thursday, the Lee’s Summit City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance that would extend the detour period for the closure of Blue Parkway in front of Bob Sight Ford from its originally scheduled eight weeks to 12 weeks.

He was only 12 years old, but Mike Gempeler had already seen enough