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Baby Bottles, Pacifiers Can Injure Young Children

You might not think baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups would be dangerous.

Virgin Atlantic to Allow Some In-Flight Cell Phone Use

This is either good news or bad news, depending on how you look at it.

AAA Predicts Increase In Memorial Day Traffic

For the second year in a row, gasoline prices in most areas are falling, not rising, as the Memorial Day weekend approaches.

Callaway’s labor force, jobs shrinking

Although Callaway County’s unemployment rate held steady at 7 percent in February and March, the county’s labor force dropped by 98 people who gave up seeking a job, moved away or have exhausted unemployment benefits because of long-term joblessness.

Conservative rally set Saturday near Holts Summit

‘Woodstock for Patriots’ attracts national leaders

This weekend conservative Americans from around the nation will gather on a farm in Callaway County near Holts Summit for a Rally for Common Sense featuring numerous nationally known speakers, including two former Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Alan Keyes.

Deaf and non-deaf professionals: whose culture is it?

What happens when there are a much larger number of professionals from the majority cultural/language group than from the minority group serving minority group members?

Street fair parade to honor local generations

Taking inspiration from an upcoming exhibit at the National Winston Churchill Museum, Fulton Street Fair organizers have selected America’s Greatest Generation as the theme for its grand parade on June 16.

Lady Owls golf team sits in fourth in NAIA

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — The William Woods University Lady Owls were in striking distance of the top after the first day of the 20th-annual NAIA women’s golf national championships.

Retailers Make Pitch to New Grads – As Employees

It's a tough job market out there, as many newly-minted college graduates are about to discover.

Consumers Have Done a 180 When it Comes to Food Shopping

Many consumers are still recovering from being in the throes of some very challenging economic times.

Surgery Patients May Need Longer Hospital Stays

Remember when most minor surgeries resulted in a two- or three-day stay in the hospital?

Attic fan causes fire in Fulton home

It could have been a lot worse had it not been for an observant neighbor. Doyle Swiney was walking his dog along Kingswood Drive in Fulton Monday afternoon when he realized there was smoke coming off of the roof of Darrell Davis’ home.

New location offers local Farmers Market more exposure

Visitors to Memorial Park the last few weeks have noticed something missing, and it wasn’t just material cleaned out by renovation crews. The Fulton Farmers Market has made the move to the parking lot in front of Sutherland’s on Business 54.

Only few use new delivery service offered by USPS

Only a few Fulton businesses are using the new Every Door Direct Mail service offered by the U.S. Postal Service but Fulton Postmaster Roger Bounds says he expects the service to grow as more people become aware of the service.

Callaway Humane Society to host adoption event Saturday

Fulton residents hoping to become one of the city’s many pet owners will have a chance to do so Saturday. The Callaway County Humane Society will host an adoption event from 10 a.m. to noon at the Fulton Dog Park.

Teens Say Texting While Driving Is Common

U.S. teenagers say they know texting while they drive is dangerous, but they do it anyway.

T-Birds downed by Falcons 4-3 in district semifinals

Errors plagued the North Callaway Thunderbirds all season long. And they ended up being their undoing in the end.

Shots fired in Wal-Mart parking lot

A Fulton man faces felony charges after allegedly shooting a gun at a local business early Saturday morning. At 12:30 a.m., the Fulton Police Department received a report of shots fired in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

NCHS Principal to retire after 33 years

When North Callaway High School principal Carol Green came down to the school’s media center Friday afternoon to deal with what she was told was an accident involving a ceiling tile and a computer, she was instead greeted with a much more pleasant surprise. Dozens of her friends, staff and colleagues filled the room to shower her in gifts and bid her farewell.