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SCOTT CITY, MO (KFVS) - A longtime city council member in Scott City, Missouri is acting as mayor after the mayor and city administrator resigned . According to City Councilman Gary Spinks , the two resigned on Monday, August 14. Longtime City Council member Norman Brant has taken over the position of mayor. He said former mayor Ron Cummins and Diann Ulmer contacted him late Monday afternoon . Brant said Cummins felt the way the city has been torn apart wasn’t going to get any better if he stayed in office.  He left, Brant said, in hopes of the community healing and coming back together. State Representative Holly Rehder said she is waiting to discuss the matter with council members before going forward with an investigation into Cummins. "I'll wait and discuss with the council members , incoming mayor and chief of police and go on their wishes," Rehder said. Tuesday night City Council meeting A meeting took place on Tuesday, Aug. 15 where the council discussed pol...

Regions › Southwest Virginia April 27, 2017  |  Print this page by Tim Thornton Marion is seeing an apartment boom. Photo courtesy The Town of Marion For nearly a century, Marion College sat on Marion’s Main Street. It closed in 1967. For much of the 20th century, R.T. Greer and Co. was a national leader in crude botanicals — roots and herbs collected and sold to pharmaceutical companies — and Marion was the center of Greer’s operations. But the business shrank as drug companies turned to other ingredients. Greer was gone by 1968. Textile companies in Marion also provided steady employment for decades, but by the early 1990s many of those jobs had disappeared. Town Manager Bill Rush says Marion “took some blows,” but it didn’t fall. One of the town’s old sewing factories is about to be converted into an apartment building. The old herb warehouse is, too. Two other downtown buildings have been or are about to be transformed into apartments. Ken Heath, executive director of Mar...

Imagine being away from home for the first time, just a teenager in a new state, surrounded by a bunch of people you don’t know. Now picture a few months into your time in your new state, a state where you are slow to trust those around you, not one, but two of your best friends are murdered less than a month apart. That’s the real world nightmare Antonio Brown faced when he arrived in Durham in the winter of 2014. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Brown grew up in an area where, as he put it, people were trying to make a name for themselves by any means. Those means weren’t always positive. Sometimes a way out, or a way to become well known was sports. Other times, more times than not, it was through violence, earning a reputation on the streets one way or another. “It’s not a lot of stuff for us to do, period,” Brown said. “Especially not positive. Most of the kids down there see ball or rapping as their only way of getting out. At my high school not even football is a way out, so...

Ready to start working on a new development project? Great! But not everything is about coding. In fact, the most difficult part comes when several people have to work together towards the same goal, and without a way to visualize all the to-do's, things can often fall apart before they begin. That's where Scrum comes into play. Scrum is a Project Management set of good practices that can be applied in any software project . In fact, it can be applied in any project that has a defined output. Scrum is based on iterations, or Sprints as they're called in the Scrum world. Each Sprint contains all the phases of a long-term project such as: Analysis Design Implementation QA At the end of each Sprint, the product increment that could be achieved during the Sprint's time will be reviewed and validated and the cycle will begin again to build a final product in an iterative way that prevents team members from getting overwhelmed. Those functional increments of the final prod...

Each week, Sporting News runs down the biggest stories in the world of professional wrestling. NXT steals the weekend from WWE ‘SummerSlam’ It was a jam-packed, four straight days of WWE action at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn highlighted by WWE “SummerSlam," the company's second-biggest event of the year. But once again, it was NXT that stole the headlines as the best show. “NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III” continued the streak of fantastic shows by the company’s third brand with great matches from top to bottom — with surprises sprinkled in, to the fans’ delight. MORE: Watch John Cena be susprised by fans in emotional video Even before the show began, the wrestling faithful were buzzing and chanting for former three-time Ring of Honor champion Adam Cole and hoping he'd make his debut that night. They weren’t disappointed, as Cole, along with former ROH stars Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly, attacked Drew McIntyre just moments after he dethroned Bobby Roode as NXT Champio...