It was to have one division linking Kansas City to St. Joseph, a distance of 52 miles, and another smaller line, 27.7 miles, to the spa community of Excelsior Springs. The desirability of the Clay County route was the fact the steam Wabash RR was carrying 250,000 passengers annually to the Springs.
Born June 21, 1979, native Minnesotan actor Chris Pratt scored his first big break on television as the troubled physician's son Bright Abbott on the WB series drama Everwood, opposite Treat Williams and others, and segued into film with a prominent role in the biting satire Strangers with Candy (2005) alongside Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert.
Judge Tabs. Tanya Walton Pratt was appointed judge of the United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana, on June 15, 2010. Judge Pratt is the first African-American federal judge in Indiana history. She fills the vacancy created by the elevation of Judge David F. Hamilton to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.