With marijuana legal in Missouri, mayor says Kansas City should not expect a...
Kansas Citians can expect to begin purchasing recreational marijuana in early February. Now the city is working to pass an additional sales tax on cannabis products and prevent any “red light district”...
View ArticleWhat happens next with legal weed in Missouri?
Recreational marijuana will soon be legal for Missourians over the age of 21 after voters passed Amendment 3. But how soon can people expect to buy it, and what's the timeline for expunging criminal...
View ArticleFederal investigation into child labor violations at meatpacking plants...
The U.S. Department of Labor said a company hired to clean meatpacking plants may have used children to work potentially dangerous jobs at facilities in Nebraska and Missouri.
View ArticlePrivate equity is stealthily taking over health care across cities and...
Two of the major private equity firms flipping health care companies have bought and resold businesses in Johnson County that handle home health, surgical products and regulatory compliance. Health...
View ArticleFormer KCKPD detective Roger Golubski was paid to protect sex traffickers,...
Former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski, who is under home arrest, already faces federal charges of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping.
View ArticleFormer Kansas City police officers get probation after assaulting Black...
Two former Kansas City, Missouri, police officers drew three years' probation after pleading guilty to third-degree felony assault in the beating of a Black transgender woman.
View ArticleKansas voters narrowly reject plan to shift power from the governor to the...
The proposed amendment failed by less than 10,000 votes in the initial ballot count. It would have allowed the Kansas Legislature to take away some policy-making capabilities from the governor's...
View ArticleIs it time for Kansas City to end state control of KCPD?
Missourians voted last week to require Kansas City to spend even more money on its police department, though most Kansas City residents were against it. But the results still left local advocates...
View ArticleMissouri allows some disabled workers to earn less than $1 an hour. The state...
Sheltered workshops are meant to employ adults with disabilities as they prepare to enter the regular workforce. But in Missouri, these subminimum-wage workers rarely "graduate" to higher-paying jobs —...
View ArticleHedge fund takeover of Midwest newspaper chain ends as investors brace for...
Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund with a reputation for diminishing the newspapers it owns, appears to backing off its attempt to take over the parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Omaha...
View ArticleUnder Josh Hawley, Missouri Attorney General's office broke transparency laws...
A Cole County judge ordered the Missouri Attorney General to pay $12,000 in penalties for violating the Missouri Sunshine Law when it failed to turn over public records that were potentially...
View ArticleRoyals' CEO John Sherman announces vision to build $2 billion downtown...
Sherman signaled his intent to leave the team's home at the Truman Sports Complex when the current lease is up, saying a new ballpark would be a "far better investment."
View ArticleClimate change threatens the Great Plains, but bison may hold a key to...
Bison grazing on native prairie for three decades transformed the landscape, allowing wildflowers to thrive that can feed legions of bees and butterflies.
View ArticleWho are the murdered Black women connected to KCKPD detective Roger Golubski?
Chapter 5: The List. Former detective Roger Golubski is connected to a litany of murdered women in Kansas City, Kansas. Several were sex workers who Golubski was accused of abusing and using as...
View ArticleSex trafficking charges against detective Roger Golubski
Former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski was paid to help protect a sex trafficking operation of underage girls run out of an apartment complex, according to an expanded federal...
View ArticleJudge dismisses St. Louis lawsuit arguing Missouri 'police bill of rights' is...
Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem denied the city’s claims that the 2021 state law bolstering protections for police under investigation for misconduct was unconstitutional.
View ArticleFeds abruptly drop effort to seize legal weed profits being transported from...
The armored truck was carrying profits from medical marijuana sales in Kansas City, Missouri, to a credit union in Colorado. The company claimed that federal and state law enforcement agencies were...
View ArticleCommunities resist Missouri Secretary of State's effort to ban 'obscene...
Jay Ashcroft’s proposed rules would deny state support to libraries that don’t adopt policies allowing patrons to challenge book selections for minors.
View ArticleKansas is adding court programs that help veterans struggling with trauma and...
Kansas will soon have five of these specialty courts that are staffed with fellow service members
View ArticleThe feds warn that hackers could hold Midwestern harvests hostage with...
American farming increasingly relies on software to keep the U.S. the world’s top food producer. But all that reliance on code-driven machinery has drawn ransomware attacks that could prove...
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