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Canton man arrested for allegedly making school shooting threat, police say
Police in Canton arrested a man Wednesday who is believed to have posted a threat via a Facebook message to commit a school shooting at Lincoln Elementary School, one of the city's five public schools. Ryan Flatt, 35, was arrested at his home in Canton after the Canton Police Department made contact with him that morning regarding messages sent via Facebook Messenger to school officials saying that he was going to "shoot up" Lincoln Elementary. Flatt was...
SEMO softball sweeps final home series
Explosive offense and lights-out pitching led the SEMO Redhawks to a three-game sweep of Western Illinois this weekend at the Southeast Softball Complex. In game one, the Redhawks defeated the Leathernecks 6-0 behind a complete game shutout from Paytience Holman. Offensively, Kat Sackett and Paige Halliwill drove in two runs...
Macomb High School Scholastic Bowl team to vie for national honors
With a championship win at the Prairieland Conference Scholastic Bowl, the Scholastic Bowl team from Macomb Senior High School has earned a chance to play on a national stage. The team will compete in a 143-team national competition: the National Academic Quiz Tournaments' Small School National Championship Tournament, which will begin Friday.Quiz bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Teams use buzzers to answer questions about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.Macomb has attended the Small School National Championship Tournament nine times before. Most recently, in 2023, they entered two teams — one of which made the playoffs and finished in 13th place.The team will consist of coach Brian Powell and members Ingrid Jones, Henry Lauer, Celena Mangalaraj, Daksh Patel, Isaak Ratermann, and Tyler Thurman. Thurman, Lauer, and Mangalaraj competed in the 2024 Individual Player National Championship Tournament in Rosemont, Ill.; and Mangalaraj, Patel, and Thurman participated in the 2023 Small School National Championship Tournament in Rosemont.Tournament results will be updated throughout the three days of competition at naqt.com.
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