CSW BREAKING: Another Off-Shore Oil Platform Explodes in Gulf of Mexico

This is reported by The ASSOCIATED PRESS via MyWay news:

This happened this morning about 80 miles south of the Louisiana coast- reportedly west of where BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded and caused the massive oil spill earlier this summer.


Only one injury out of a reported 13 persons on board who were retrieved in rescue pods.


More importantly- there's no report of an extensive or on-going oil leak as occurred in the BP disaster.

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A Story About The GOOD Cops

Too often we hear of stuff bad cops do- but those types of individuals are in a small minority among the police forces of America.

Case in point: a letter to the editorial page of the KANSAS CITY STAR this Thursday morning from a "Pam Christianson" of "Kansas City."

Ms. Christianson tells her story of recently being "robbed" and Maced by "two teenage girls" as the woman was returning home from work.

Christianson says the police came and took her report and soon arrested the suspects.

Not only that- but Ms. Christianson says officers saw her old window air conditioner at her house- and those police officers returned with a BRAND NEW window air conditioner and installed it for her! 


So remember- while there ARE corrupt individuals in ANY profession- the vast majority of those persons just want to do the right and honorable thing for the citizens they're hired to protect.

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Category 3 Hurricane Earl Nears America's East Coast

Hurricane Earl continues on a northward path this Thursday morning- forecast to brush the East Coast from North Carolina's Outer Banks to New England.

Hurricane warnings are now in effect for those areas.

Images from a US Army Corps of Engineers camera on the North Carolina shore shows oceans swells increasing as Earl approaches.

The outer bands of Earl are now being picked up on land-based NWS Doppler radars as those outer bands brush the South and North Carolina shores.

Earl is not forecast to strengthen any further- and should decrease in intensity as it heads north toward the southeastern provinces of Canada.

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Woman Dies in Lee's Summit House Fire

Lee's Summit MO firefighters found a woman inside a burning home in the 700 block of Southeast (SE) Douglas Thursday morning.

The fire was reported about 7:20 a.m.- according to KSHB NBC Action News. 

Fire crews reportedly found a "smoldering couch" inside the residence- then later found the woman in a back bedroom.


LSFD hasn't released the name of the victim and aren't saying for sure that the fire/smoke killed her- and the cause of the fire hasn't been released yet either.

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CSW WEATHER: Severe Thunderstorm Watches No. 638 and 639 Valid Until 1 AM CDT- KS-MO-NE-IA

The Storm Prediction Center has issued Severe Thunderstorm (tstm) Watch (STW) Number 638 for parts of northern and northwestern Missouri- southeastern Nebraska and much of Iowa from southwest to northeast.

The SPC has also issued STW Number 639 for a large part of Kansas- including Topeka and Manhattan.

Both watches are valid until 1 a.m. Wednesday morning.


This watch DOES NOT included Metro Kansas City- only extreme northern through western parts of the Kansas City MetroRegion.

Metro Kansas City IS outlooked for a "slight" risk of severe thunderstorms on Wednesday.

Here's a look at the latest weather radar image from the NWS Doppler site west of Topeka KS:

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Central States News: Medical Helicopter Crashes in Northeast Arkansas- 3 Dead

In rural areas of America far from big-city medical trauma centers- crews of medical helicopters are literally Angels of Mercy- flying seriously-injured people to facilities that can save their lives.

(Photo courtesy of The ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE)

On occasion I'm sad to report- those helicopters go down for whatever reason.

The ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE reports that such a med heli crash occurred in northern Arkansas near the town of Scotland.

The crew of three- enroute to pick up a patient in Alread AR- were killed instantly.


Next time you see a medical helicopter in the air- please say a little prayer for them- as well as those brothers and sisters killed this morning in Arkansas.

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Central States News: Des Moines- Meth Makers Put The Public At Risk

A new method for making methamphetamine- simply called 'meth-' has put the unsuspecting general population at risk.

That new method of manufacture of the dangerous (did you hear me? DANGEROUS!) drug is called 'shake and bake-' making the drug in 1-liter soda pop containers.

That method does away with the tell-tale smell that goes along with meth production but that production method can easily cause explosions and fire.

People have been burned-out of their houses and apartments by these careless meth makers- according to the The DES MOINES (IA) REGISTER story.


If you become privy to such meth makers- do society a favor and turn them in!

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Hurricane Earl Threatens America's East Coast

If you're planning to spend Labor Day on an East Coast beach- you MAY want to re-consider those plans...

Hurricane Earl continues to strengthen east of Puerto Rico this Monday morning.


Earl is already a Category 3 storm- and each National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast takes Earl's path further westward and increasingly closer to America's East Coast.

The latest NHC forecast shown here actually places the center of Earl- inside a larger forecast "cone"- near the shores of North Carolina's Outer Banks by this Friday.


From Boston MA to Savannah GA- keep a CLOSE eye on Earl this week!

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Central States News: Fire Destroys McCook NE Fire Truck

The ONLY thing worse than losing a fire truck that's just sitting in it's station is ALMOST losing a fire truck at a fire (author- 3-alarm-plus fire- 21stSt. & Holly- July 1976- KC-MO).

(Photo courtesy of Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Daily Gazette)

This rig burned due to reported electrical issues while the rest of the crew and equipment battled a fire in a farmer's co-op west of McCook- in the southwest corner of Nebraska- said the MCCOOK (NE) DAILY GAZETTE.

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Why Professional Sports Lost Me As A "Fan"

I turn  you to a story in Monday morning's KANSAS CITY STAR- where Jackson County pollys are nervous about Kansas City MO's $2-million contribution to the Truman Sports Complex- i.e. the corporately-owned pro sports teams the Royals and the Chiefs.

In that story- it tells of KC-MO officials wanting to make up that $2-mil in special fees and/or taxes on tickets and other stadium concessions- yet the SAME pro sports teams and their respective leagues saying NO to in-stadium fees or taxes.

In other words- your Royals and your Chiefs and their exclusive country club leagues want their taxpayer-welfare to come from EVERYBODY- including non-fans and (the increasing number of) poor people.

Frankly- I'm sick and tired of these professional sports teams getting a DIME of taxpayer monies to subsidize their player salaries and owners' lavish lifestyles.

I'm sick and tired of exhorbitant parking- ticket and concession prices at these taxpayer-supported pro sports playpens.

These attitudes by pro sports corporations- not to mention the occasional strikes by their high-priced employees and shitty performances on the field- have COMPLETELY turned me off to pro sports.


To the Kansas City MO clowncilpersons that approved sending that $2-million to support corporate sports teams: I hope the lot of you is swallowed up in one of KC's daily water main breaks.


Then those clowncil people could TRULY 'drown in their own incompetence' alone instead of taking a whole city down with them.

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KC-KS Motorcycle Crash- Three-Injury Shooting Highlights Sunday Morning Metro K.C. News

With comfortable temperatures in the middle-70's early this late-August Sunday morning- Metro emergency services were active...




Police fire and EMS units from both sides of the state line responded to and worked a crash involving a motorcycle and it's driver on the Kansas side of the I-70 Lewis & Clark viaduct about 2:45 a.m..


The crash caused the motorcycle to burst into flames and the driver lost at least one limb.


That person was taken to a Metro hospital in critical condition.

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Around 4:05 a.m. there was a shooting reported in KC-KS that injured 3 women.


 The call came in for the 1900 block of North Tennyson- but could have occurred in the 3400 block of Longwood.


Two women- "a 22-year-old" and "a 24-year-old"- both "shot in the left thigh"- were taken to a Metro medical trauma center in good condition.


A third woman was reportedly hit in the foot by a bullet fragment.

 There wasn't any suspect information- and at least one of the victims may have been related to a KC-KS Police department employee.

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An early-morning police pursuit of a possibly intoxicated driver wound through at least 4 cities in 3 counties.



 It all began around 12:35 a.m. when a KC-MO police officer observed the driver of a white Dodge Ram pickup truck run through a stoplight and driving carelessly on 39th Street at U.S. 71-Watkins Expressway.


The Ram sped off northbound on U.S. 71 when the officer tried to stop the truck.  The chase then went west on I-670 into KC-KS at reported speeds of "80-90 m.p.h.."


The pursuit wound around residential streets in eastern KC-KS before the driver headed south to I-35 and went southbound into Johnson County.


The chase went south to Metcalf- then turned around back north on I-35 to exit at Southwest Boulevard where it went east to Rainbow.


The chase that included both the KC-MO police and a Kansas Highway Patrol helicopters went south on Rainbow- then at 12:49 a.m.- the chase ended in the Westport area when the suspect vehicle crash.

 No one was injured during or after the pursuit- and the driver was taken into custody.

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A carjacking was reported by the KC-MO police in the Crossroads area around 1:50 a.m..



 It was reported that "a purple Lexus" was taken from the victim by "two black males armed with a gun" at 20th Street and Southwest Boulevard.


The carjacking victim was not injured.

Please watch KSHB-41 NBC Action News at 8 a.m.- 5 and 10 p.m....

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