Aug. 16, 2012 Volume 2 • Issue 39 75 cents Send your news to gladstonenews@npgco.com
Carpenter, Corlew face off in November Job creation tops priority list for House District 15 candidates By Amy Neal
Corlew, an attorney at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, captured all 2,332 Republican votes in the primary The two candidates on the November in an uncontested race. “I am grateful for the great support ballot for Missouri House District 15 are each vying for what would be their first from voters in the primary election, in which we led the entire state rep field elected office. Jon Carpenter won a three-way race in total votes,” Corlew said. “Those numbers encourage us in the Democratic prito work even harder for mary Aug. 7 to advance the November general to the general election, election to also gain where he faces Republithe support of Indepencan Kevin Corlew. Carpenter said he was dents and Democrats.” grateful for the support of local Democrats. The Jon Carpenter Campaign trail Kevin Corlew In the months leadCEO and president of Carpenter Communicaing up to the November vote, Carpenter and Cortions, a small marketing and advertising firm, lew both plan to reach won 67 percent of the out to constituents to vote. Carol Suter, mayor find out the issues they of Gladstone, garnered 27 want their state legislator percent, and Shon Adamto work on. “I will continue to share my more son, a gifted education teacher, 6 percent. A total of 2,193 Democrats voted than 20 years’ worth of leadership in the District 15 primary, based on official results. DISTRICT 15/Page A4
Couple’s murder/suicide brings Gladstone homicide count to 4 this year City reports no overall rise in violet crime By Amy Neal Gladstone’s fourth homicide of the year occurred over the weekend in what authorities have deemed a murder/suicide involving a husband and wife with health issues. The Sunday, Aug. 12, discovery of the bodies of Christine and Anthony Niccoli in an apartment complex on North Park Avenue came less than a week after the body of a missing woman was found with multiple stab wounds. The Jackson County medical examiner ruled the deaths of the Niccolis, both 52, murder and suicide. Richard King, Gladstone’s public information coordinator, said evidence points to the couple having made a death pact because of
“mutual health concerns.” “They both agreed to do it, but one had to take the other one’s life in order to take their own,” he said. Four days earlier, the body of Nancy BowNancy Bowman J. man, 52, was discovered a day after Gladstone police received a report of a missing woman who lived at Mountainview Apartments. As part of the investigation, officers conducted a canvass of the area, including a wooded area behind the apartments where the body was located. The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. The last time the city had multiple homicides in a year was 2009, when the
total was three. There were no homicides in 2010 and one in 2011, King said. “The majority of homicides that have occurred in Gladstone over the years have been related to domestic events leading up to the act,” King said. “Even so, there have been many years when the homicide rate was zero.” The Niccolis’ and Bowman’s deaths follow the murders of Juan M. Orozco-Vargas, 26, and Dr. Irina A. Puscariu, 46. Twent y-seven-year- old Luis Fernando Morales-Hernandez of Gladstone was charged with first-degree murder after admitting to fatally stabbing OrozcoVargas with a steak knife on June 25 in Gladstone. Morales-Hernandez had a child with and lived with HOMICIDE/Page A6
“The majority of homicides that have occurred in Gladstone over the years have been related to domestic events leading up to the act. Even so, there have been many years when the homicide rate was zero.” Richard King, public information coordinator for the city of Gladstone
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