Kansas City police officer says he saw Cameron Lamb raise a gun before he...
Prosecutors say Eric DeValkenaere acted carelessly and recklessly in going onto Lamb’s property without probable cause or a warrant because there was no obvious crime in progress at that point.
View ArticleKansas school district reverses decision to pull library books
Book challenges are up about 60% over the past year. Free speech advocates say many books are being challenged by parents and community members under the guise that they’re promoting critical race theory.
View ArticleKevin Strickland's fate lies in the hands of judge — 'he's betting his life...
“I feel really good about the case,” Kevin Strickland told reporters as Jackson County Sheriff's officers wheeled him out of the courtroom after his third day in court.
View ArticleWorld War I Museum pays tribute to an ‘often-forgotten’ hero with faces of...
Pvt. Henry Johnson, a Harlem Hellfighter and World War I hero, was denied recognition by the U.S. military until decades after his death. For Veterans Day, a mural at Kansas City's World War I Museum...
View ArticleCrisis in Kansas prisons
Long hours, dangerous conditions and low pay are causing staffing shortages at Kansas prisons, which have led to inmates being locked in their cells for long stretches. Plus, Mayor Quinton Lucas...
View ArticleKansas City police say they’re close to solving a 2015 homicide but they need...
In August 2015, the body of 36-year-old Danielle Wilson was found in an alley near the crossing of East 29th Street and Myrtle Avenue. Police and Wilson’s family members urge people with information...
View ArticleKansas Republicans say they're calling the Legislature back to fight COVID-19...
It appears to be the first time that Kansas lawmakers have called themselves back into special session using a petition.
View ArticleTwo questions of justice at the Jackson County Courthouse
A trial continues for a Kansas City police detective charged in the fatal shooting of a Black man. Plus, the fate of Kevin Strickland, a Kansas City man who has spent 43 years in prison for a crime...
View ArticleJackson County ends mask mandate early, despite high risk of COVID transmission
Two weeks before the mandate was slated to expire, Jackson County legislators voted 5-4 Friday to end the mandate early.
View ArticleTrial ends for Kansas City police officer charged with fatally shooting...
Prosecutors contend that once a high-speed car chase ended, there were no urgent circumstances requiring Eric DeValkenaere and his partner to trespass on private property with guns drawn without first...
View ArticleAfter more than 17 years, a free health care clinic in southern Missouri...
For uninsured residents around Mountain View, Missouri, the Good Samaritan Care Clinic had become an essential resource they relied on. Having to close down is "depressing," doctors and staff say.
View ArticleElectric car drivers are growing in the Midwest, now chargers need to keep up
As more drivers buy electric vehicles across the Midwest, utility companies work to establish a charging network.
View ArticleA giant investment firm paid a university to study one of its biggest assets...
TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.
View ArticleCorporate money keeps university ag schools ‘relevant,’ and makes them...
Large donors can put universities in potentially awkward positions when faculty conclusions conflict with the interests of those benefactors. Data collected by Harvest Public Media and Investigate...
View ArticleWhen Tyson came to town
Forty years ago, a Kansas city and a Colorado city fought it out over the world's largest meatpacking plant — transforming one into a beef industry epicenter, and the other a...
View ArticleMissourians can’t get federal food assistance because of long call wait...
About half of the 47,000 SNAP applications that Missouri received in September were rejected. That’s a 60% increase from the number of applications rejected in July.
View ArticleSlavery petition incident at Park Hill South High School was not what it...
The lawsuit says the much-publicized petition to "Start Slavery Again" all began as private bantering between a biracial student and a Black student on the football team, which eventually found its way...
View ArticleWhy do Schmitt and Schmidt keep suing?
The Missouri and Kansas attorneys general have a lot in common. Both are Republicans, both have filed high-profile lawsuits against mask mandates and vaccine requirements, and it seems both are...
View ArticleKansas state Rep. Aaron Coleman allegedly hit brother, threatened grandfather...
Coleman tried to “shame” his brother for wanting to get baptized, according to an affidavit. Coleman then pushed his brother backwards, hit him in the chest and spit on him, the document says.
View ArticleIndependence banned conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors, and Blue Springs may...
The city of Independence voted unanimously on Monday to ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors, becoming the fifth city in the area to do so. A Blue Springs council member says he's ready to introduce...
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