Robert Vroman News Today

Anyone who procrastinated on filing for political office will get another chance to enter the Aug. 6 primary in a handful of contests. Late withdrawals from four congressional races, four...

Under Missouri law, when candidates withdraw within two days of the close of filing, a special filing period opens for four days in the following week.

Anyone who procrastinated on filing for political office will get another chance to enter the Aug. 6 primary in a handful of contests.

Sturgis Journal April 7, 1961, seems long ago to most people. For Anna Flowers, it is a date she will never forget. One that date, her husband, Edward Bauman, and her two younger brothers, Howard Richard (aka Dick) and Robert Vroman, drowned in a Sherman Township lake. Ed was 18 and about to become a father, Dick was 16 and Bobby, 13. They went spearing that Friday night at Quail Lake, with Larry Lung. Only Larry returned home. According to the Sturgis Journals April 8, 1961, edition, they were...