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By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Just as fast as the St. Joseph animal shelter is getting pets adopted, the pens are filling back up again with cats and dogs. So once again, Friends of the Animal Shelter is helping out with another adoption drive. Friends of the Animal Shelters Melanie Barnes says this one is going to be themed for the Halloween season. "It's the Adoption Spooktacular so we're going Halloween themed, Halloween is right around the corner and it's kind of frightening how many pets are down at the shelter and available," Barnes tells KFEQ Hotline host Barr...

By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Fall is here and with the colder weather also comes the beauty of the leaves on trees changing colors. Forester Lonnie Messbarger with the Missouri Department of Conservation in St. Joseph says if you are looking to see the fall colors in trees right now is the peak time. "We've had fall color for several weeks now, starting with the dogwoods and the sumac and the Virginia creeper vines, and then we move where cottonwoods and hackberries they'll turn yellow and other trees (like) walnuts," Messbarger tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "And then...

St. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar/file photo By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostAn armed graduate of a St. Louis high school killed one student and a teacher Monday morning before police shot and killed him.Seven other students were shot and wounded at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.A deadly shooting so close to home worries any school administrator. And St. Joseph School Superintendent Gabe Edgar says that worry deepens because of the difficulty of preventing such random violence."I don't know that there's any way that you can completely stop anybody from d...

State Senate candidates speak at the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce candidate forum broadcast on KFEQ/Photo by Matt Pike By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMissouri 34th Senatorial District incumbent, Republican Tony Luetkemeyer of Parkville, is being challenged in his re-election bid by political newcomer, Democrat Sarah Shorter of Kansas City.Luetkemeyer, in a St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce candidate forum, touts his record on fighting crime and bringing state money to the district in his bid to win a second four-year term."But even with all these successes, I know that my work in Jefferson ...

By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostAn elderly man died in a two-vehicle crash in St. Joseph Friday afternoon.St. Joseph police report a pick-up traveling west on Lovers Lane collided with another pick-up pulling out of Mount Olivet Cemetery, crashing into the driver's side. The driver of the pick-up pulling out of the cemetery, 87-year-old Donald Wilde, was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. Wilde died later at the hospital.The extent of injuries to the other driver has not been disclosed. He was also taken to the hospital.