Stan Cole News Today

It’s an accomplishment to win a national championship, but to do it twice, two years in a row? It is the cherry on top, as one Blue Springs South High School senior put it.

Major milestones in Thoroughbred racing represent so much more than a number. Whether it be 1,000, 2,500, 3,000, 5,000, or the remarkable 10,000th win recently by Hall of Fame conditioner Steve Asmussen, each recipient has worked tirelessly for the achievement.

It's Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited, a book that covers all three Black Christmas movies, is going to be released in January 2022.

Cover Revealed for Definitive BLACK CHRISTMAS Retrospective, IT’S ME BILLY! ITS ME BILLY: BLACK CHRISTMAS REVISITED will be a definitive retrospective of Bob Clarks seminal slasher. By Josh Millican Authors Paul Downey and Dave Hastings are busy working on a brand-new definitive book chronicling the making of Bob Clark’s seminal 1974 Christmas slasher film, in the forthcoming It’s Me Billy: Black Christmas Revisited, which w...

Black Christmas Getting "Definitive" Behind-the-Scenes Book A Christmas Story, but nearly a decade earlier, he delivered audiences the seminal slasher film Black Christmas, which is getting an all-new book that dives deep into how that project came to life. Many audiences consider John Carpenters Halloween as the film that helped popularize the slasher subgenre, but devout fans know just how important -- and influential -- Clarks 1974 film remains, which has since gone on to earn remakes in b...

By Bill Althaus bill.althaus@examiner.net Kellen Heinzman has never worn a cape, subdued an arch villain with a well-placed karate kick or leaped a tall building in a single bound. But the Blue Springs South Junior ROTC Cadet Captain is a hero – a real-life hero – who recently saved a couple when their pontoon boat caught fire near the Lake Jacomo Marina. Heinzman, who works at the marina, heard one the members of the marina crew yell, “Fire,” and the South senior couldn’t believe wha...