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The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 12, 2022 including the debut of the first openly gay driver to compete at the National Hot Rod Association’s nationals, threats of violence against a family who says they were racially profiled at a Lee’s Summit Park, and The Eagles’ stop in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022 including Independence School District’s consideration of a four-day school week, an apology from the Lee’s Summit Parks and Recreation after a Black family said they were racially profiled, and a Missouri man who pled guilty in connection to the Capitol riots.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 including: Cerner accused of discriminating against Black, Asian job applicants; MO will vote on legalizing recreational marijuana in November; and Missouri Republicans denounce FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, including: the closure of an unlicensed Missouri boarding school, a new opportunity on the Chiefs offense and a conflict in Lee’s Summit over the cancellation of a teen’s birthday party.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 8th, 2022 including: Planned Parenthood has opened new KCK abortion clinic; COVID cases down in Kansas City metro area from BA.5; and prosecutor highlights crackdown on car part thefts in KC.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 5, 2022 including: a lost wedding ring at a George Strait concert in Kansas City, the arrest of a man attending the Jan. 6 riots, and hopes from Missouri Democrats to protect abortion rights by putting the issue on a ballot initiative.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, August 4, 2022 including: discussion of the failed abortion amendment in Kansas, the Republican Senate primary race and the Royals trade of Whit Merrifield.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 including: how to get yesterday’s primary election results, the sad fate of a fan-favorite KC barbeque restaurant, and Orlando Brown’s desire to stay with the Chiefs — for the long haul.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 including: a small town in Kansas’ efforts to grow their population, an embarrassing blunder from a Royals rookie, and an abandoned and burned mobile home under a bridge in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 1, 2022 including: a suspect in two fatal shootings arrested in Lawrence, a pedestrian run over by a bus in Kansas City and more roster moves by the Royals.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 29, 2022 including: Kansas early voting turnout so far is 246% higher than the last midterm primary in 2018; Ex-Prairie Village officer loses police license after sending sexual messages to arrestee; KC Royals trade Andrew Benintendi to New York Yankees.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 28, 2022 including the death of Tony Dow, Travis Kelce’s raise and the school district requiring students to carry clear backpacks.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 including: a week before election, Missouri Democrat Busch Valentine stumbles on LGBTQ rights; a fired Kansas City area teacher sues, claiming discrimination as white, male Christian; a man was kept in a Kansas prison cell with men who had COVID. Now he has it, his mom says.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, June 26, 2022 including: a Johnson County man challenging the revocation of his driving privileges after he landed a plane on westbound Interstate 70, the Chiefs rookie wide receiver who is out for the season after an injury, and the missing jobs in an agreement between Kansas and Panasonic for a $4 billion battery plant.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 25th, 2022 including: How BA 5 affects Kansas City COVID cases, hospitalizations; Former Sen. McCaskill reacts to MO Sen. Josh Hawley running; and KC police respond to second homicide Saturday on East Side.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 22, 2022 including: Missouri Amtrak crash caused $4 million in damage, new transportation board report says; Study shows Missouri taxpayers spend about $2,900 on costs associated with gun violence; Quinton Lucas says man accused of killing North KC officer should get death penalty.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 21, 2022 including a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, a Capitol riot defendant who wants to defend himself in court and a lawsuit against a Country Club Plaza developer.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 20, 2022 including: A North Kansas City police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop Tuesday; Pizza Tascio, a NY-style pizza restaurant in KC, is expanding with two new locations; one of last holdouts in Johnson County, the Blue Valley school district may finally stock Narcan.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 including the closing of Tay’s Burger Shack, a Johnson County sheriff who suggested deputies should collect ballots from drop boxes, and mask requirements in Jackson County buildings.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 18th, 2022 including: Doctor wishes Royals players would get vaccinated for COVID; Riot puts Lansing, Kansas prison on lockdown Friday night; and Olathe school board debates public comments, livestreaming.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 12th, 2022, including the death of a woman in a series of Caldwell County fires, Senator Josh Hawley’s stance on abortion protests and a raise for municipal employees in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 including: KC Black female officers allege race and sex discrimination; Shawnee councilwoman wants to reconsider co-living ban; and Olathe East shooting suspect Jaylon Elmore transferred to jail.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 10th, 2022, including: an update on Missouri redistricting, area schools’ placement in a new national ranking, and a fact-check on Plan B and Missouri’s abortion “trigger law.”
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 9th, 2022 including: Missouri legislature cuts $500K request by AG Schmitt; Woman dies in Friday night house fire in Johnson County; and a KC Tenants rally in Hyde Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, May 6th, 2022, including: the death of a Kansas foster child, a new Whataburger opening and an effort to put special ratings on TV shows featuring LGBTQ storylines.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 5th, 2022 including: KCK mayor denies nationwide search for county administrator; An explosive was found on I-470, causing traffic in KC; and KC Chiefs won’t play international NFL game in 2022 schedule.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 including: Draft SCOTUS abortion opinion would quickly affect KS, MO; Shawnee City Council members defend co-living ban on renters; and family of man killed in midtown KC apartment launches GoFundMe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022, including: the Missouri governor’s decision to deny clemency to a man sentenced to death, new competition for Hawaiian Bros and a series of car break-ins at area high schools.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 2nd, 2022 including: Missouri unlikely to legalize sports betting as Kansas passes bill; KCPD tech employee alleges racial discrimination, retaliation; and renowned local artist Wilbur Niewald dies at 97.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 29th, 2022 including: KS House fails to override vetoes on trans athletes, "parents bill of rights"; Police investigate assault at Park Hill High School; and Joco Commissioners vote to establish county transit division.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 28th, 2022 including: Feds asked to investigate Kansas trucking company over loan; KCPD opens criminal investigation after Greitens ride-along; and Missouri Supreme Court allows gun law challenge to proceed.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 including: Expert calls Leavenworth police shooting ‘horrendous,’ unjustified; MO man who dressed as George Washington Jan. 6 heads to trial; and Kansas GOP advances delay on Medicaid contract negotiation.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 25th, 2022 including: After silent 911 call, Eric Greitens said kids played with phone; all options on the table for future home of Kansas City Chiefs; and KU Jayhawks junior guard Christian Braun declares for the NBA draft.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 22nd, 2022, including: a Black KCPD officer files suit over traffic stop, a school board member is under fire for transphobic posts and a new proposal seeks to fix funding of Missouri charter schools.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 21st, 2022, including: details on a fight that led up to a stabbing at a middle school, allegations of child pornography against a KU Med administrator and a look at Eric Greitens' legal expenses.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 including: City audit recommends improvements to KCPD body cam policy; Masks no longer required on Kansas City buses, streetcar; and KU Jayhawks senior David McCormack declares for NBA Draft.
Episode description: The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 including: a walkout and protest at Northeast Middle School over Manuel Guzman’s death, new NIL deals for KU basketball players and a new look at a 22-year-old murder in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 18th, 2022 including: KS governor rejects transgender athlete ban, curriculum bill; teen accused in fatal stabbing at KC school appears in court; and a man shot over the weekend dies from his injuries.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 15th, 2022 including: Kansas City school leader addresses student stabbing death; Former Overland Park Starbucks workers file unfair labor charge; and Kansas Gov. Kelly approves $310 million in specialized tax breaks.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 14th, 2022, including: the latest in a fatal stabbing at a Kansas City middle school, reports on who will join the Plaza in Nordstrom’s place and an update in the criminal charges related to the 2018 duck boat crash in Missouri.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 13th including: a decision by Nordstrom not to move to the Plaza, a stabbing at a Kansas City school and the impact of a Kansas bill on a local sanctuary city ordinance.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022, including: a double shooting in Mission, another escalation in the development debate at Country Club Plaza and the release of a man in prison for 18 years on insufficient evidence
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 11th, 2022 including: Kansas City building fire that injured 15 was arson, ATF says; Overland Park Starbucks workers vote to form union; and one person killed in a double shooting in West Bottoms.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 8th, 2022, including: a growing dispute between Missouri and Kansas officials over the future of the Chiefs, a new development in voyeuristic allegations against a Johnson County teacher and a suspected murder-suicide in Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 7th, 2022, including: the results of contentious school board elections in the metro, the closure of an Overland Park restaurant and the Royals’ prospects for opening day.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 including: Nearly two dozen faith leaders on Monday urged the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners to hire a new police chief who will commit to fighting racism within and outside of the department, a trial to determine whether Kansas’s Republican-drawn congressional map is unconstitutionally gerrymandered opened Monday and Kauffman Stadium will offer the BBQ Reese’s Sandwich, with pulled pork, Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, crumbled Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and bacon bits.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 4th, 2022 including: KU basketball playing for a national title tonight; Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girl’s sports passes; and Dubliner Irish restaurant and pub closes in Power & Light.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 1, 2022 including: Missourian charged in Jan. 6 riot shouted at police; KCPD’s ‘beard policy’ cost $90K in settlements; and Missouri House rejects Senate congressional map.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 31st, 2022 including: Is Nordstrom no longer moving to the Kansas City’s Plaza?; Trudy Busch Valentine apologizes for Veiled Prophet Ball appearances; and KCPD settles with Black teen who was punched, tased.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 including: KC Chiefs exploring possible sites for new stadium in Kansas; Sen. Josh Hawley says he missed a call from Trump on morning of Jan. 6 insurrection; and Kansas City’s St. Luke’s Hospital has no COVID patients in ICU.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 including: Dashcam video shows Herb Robinson, then a detective in the Kansas City Police Department, pulled over in a traffic stop in full uniform by a white cop and another officer, a long list of nuisances at Cross-Lines Retirement Center in Kansas City, Kansas and project to replace bridges at a busy interchange on U.S. 50 highway in Lee’s Summit gets underway Monday and drivers should anticipate limited excess in the area.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 28th, 2022 including: Black officers face racism in Kansas City Police Department; KU will fully drop COVID-19 mask requirements; and the Kansas Jayhawks’ big Elite Eight win over the Miami Hurricanes.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 25th, 2022 including: Facebook building $800M data center in Kansas City Northland; MO Senate passes new congressional map, breaking gridlock; and a Ferris wheel may join Kansas City’s skyline in 2023.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 24th, 2022 including: Chiefs trade Tyreek Hill to Dolphins; Lucas reverses plan for control over KCPD budget; and MacKenzie Scott donates to MO, IL Planned Parenthood.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022, including: Who is Jaylon Elmore, charged with attempted capital murder in a shooting at Olathe East High School?, Sen. Roy Blunt joined the calls Tuesday for former Gov. Eric Greitens to drop out of the U.S Senate race after allegations that he mentally and physically abused his ex-wife and children and free weekend parking in Kansas City’s River Market neighborhood will soon be a thing of the past.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 including: The ex-wife of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says the U.S. Senate candidate was violent toward her and their children, a Topeka man was booked into Johnson County jail on suspicion of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a woman at an Overland Park rental house and Jerome Tang has signed a lucrative contract with Kansas State.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 21st, 2022 including: MO AG Schmitt dismisses school district mask mandate lawsuits; family of man slain on Kansas City-bound train sue Amtrak; and another fatal shooting in Independence.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 18th, 2022 including: Olathe East student charged in shooting remains hospitalized; Rising beef prices squeeze Kansas City barbecue restaurants; and Hawley raises concerns about Jackson’s record on sex crimes.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 17th, 2022 including: Affidavit gives details on Olathe East High School shooting; Restaurants could replace historic Country Club Plaza church; and Royals are targeting one area of need in free agency.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 including: WyCo to shut down COVID vaccine, testing site at old Kmart; Missing man found dead in Kansas City after leaving sports bar; and Kansas Jayhawks’ Ochai Agbaji is AP first-team All-American.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 11th, 2022 including: Planned Parenthood files lawsuit against Missouri over funding; MLB lockout ends, CBA agreement reached, baseball to resume; and serial killer John E. Robinson Sr. makes case for new trial.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 10th, 2022 including: Olathe superintendent: Student had concern about suspect; MO measure would ban residents from getting abortions out of state; and KC delays trash pickup because of winter weather & snowstorm.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 including: KC Police announce rise in accidental fentanyl overdoses; When will we see gas prices go up in Missouri and Kansas?; and here’s what Seattle got from Denver in Russell Wilson deal.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 7th, 2022 including: Olathe East student charged in shooting of police officer; Ex-Kansas City officer sentenced in Black man’s killing; and police investigate a fatal shooting.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 4th, 2022 including: Truck convoy to pass through Kansas and Missouri on Friday; Man faces two additional charges for emergency landing at KCI; and Whataburger chain sets opening for Overland Park restaurant.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 including: MO gives Clay County commission poor ranking in audit; Court records detail KS Rep Aaron Coleman’s November arrest; and Senate passes resolution to block vaccine mandate for health workers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 2nd including: KCPD officer guilty in shooting should get 9 years: prosecutors; Daughter of MO boarding school owners sues parents over abuse; and Johnson County leaders raise alarm over election inquiry.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 including: Johnson County, Kansas, Sheriff Calvin Hayden said Monday that his office is investigating claims of election fraud, Missouri U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s Twitter account was suspended on Monday for violating the platform’s rules against hateful conduct and a guide to Kansas City Community Supported Agriculture.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, February 28th, 2022 including: a trucker convoy protesting vaccines quitting before Kansas and Missouri; a fatal triple shooting in Lenexa; and former Royals star Alex Gordon expecting “big things” out of Bobby Witt Jr.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 25th, 2022 including: MO, KS politicians call for sanctions amid Russian invasion of Ukraine; KS Education Commissioner Randy Watson faces calls to resign; and KC Chiefs’ Eric Bieniemy stays offensive coordinator
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 24th, 2022 including: $900K settlement reached in wrongful arrest of KC teenager; Hwy 169 lane shut down in Kansas City due to concrete slab; and Royals stadium could lose out on tax breaks if bill passes.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 including: Ex-Kansas City officer to be free amid appeal in Lamb case; After neighbors’ opposition, Overland Park nixes apartments; and KC Symphony lifts mask mandate, COVID vaccine still required.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 including: Black joy, Kansas City Chiefs roster news and an update on a shooting that left two people dead and injured a young child.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 18th, 2022 including: Winter storm dumps more than 9 inches of snow on parts of Kansas City metro; Johnson County ends school mask mandate as COVID cases fall; and Independence allows employees to double dip overtime, vacation.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 17th, 2022 including: Winter storm warning issued for Kansas City as ice and 4 to 6 inches of snow possible; Missouri Senate fracture worsens after redistricting filibuster; and KC delays trash pickup because of winter weather & snow storm.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 including: Major Kansas City school districts end COVID mask mandates; KCK police release info in Dec. 24 shooting of grandmother; and KC Immersive Van Gogh art exhibit delayed again until April.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, February 15, 2021 including: Sixteen Kansas residents are suing to block the state’s new congressional map, a cross-country flight was diverted to land in Kansas City after a passenger tired to force his way into cockpit, and Roots Seasonal Cuisine opening in Lee’s Summit.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 11th, 2022 including: Park Hill, Missouri students protest teacher’s use of slur; Court challenge coming against new Kansas map, Eric Holder says; and Jackson County won’t be imposing new mask mandate for schools.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 10th, 2022 including: Congressional map splitting KCK passes over Kelly veto; Olathe schools questioned on sexual harassment discipline; and BBQ champion will get restaurant at new KCI airport terminal.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 including: Missouri governor unsure who should compensate the innocent; Incentive for secret factory would cost Kansas $1.3 billion; and Bird electric scooters, bikes coming to Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, February 8, 2021 including: Missouri Republican lawmakers are paring back some of the state worker raises that Gov. Mike Parson has proposed, Kansas lawmakers are urging the state board that licenses doctors to proceed with “caution” when investigating prescriptions for ivermectin and other unproven COVID-19 treatments, and Ollie’s Bargain Outlet — with a tagline of “good stuff cheap” — is planning two area stores.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, February 7th, 2022 including: Kansas GOP looks toward override fight on redistricting map; New plans for Mission Gateway aim to restart long-troubled project from ‘square one’; and city appoints a new health department head.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 4th, 2022 including: US Senate bill for toxic-exposed veterans moves through Congress; Children’s Mercy in KC sees rise in post-COVID multi-system inflammatory syndrome cases; and Independence investigating $160,000 overtime paid to officer.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 including: Missouri rep. weighs in on Kansas City firefighter explosion; White House’s Psaki accuses Hawley of ‘parroting’ Russia propaganda in Ukraine letter; and Boulevardia releases lineup for Crown Center festival in June.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, February 1, 2021 including: Part of Kansas City’s downtown loop highways will close for a long time while the replacement for the Buck O’Neil Bridge is built, employees at two Kansas City area Starbucks stores announced union organization efforts, Furniture Mall of Missouri, a furniture and home décor “shopping center,” is opening in Lee’s Summit later this year.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, January 31st, 2022 including: Wyandotte County to create public defender’s office by 2024; Jackie Robinson plaque moves to Kansas City; and the Chiefs lose to the Bengals in overtime.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, January 28th, 2022 including: The police department in Kansas City, Kansas, is launching a cold case unit, YouTube has removed Missouri Rep. Billy Long’s new U.S. Senate campaign ad, saying it violated the site’s community guidelines and The Kingdom Bar & Grille, an upscale sports bar celebrating Kansas City teams is coming to Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, January 27th, 2022 including: KC police said last day for convicted detective was Monday; KS Congressional map splitting Wyandotte heads to Kelly’s desk; and Chiefs fans donate $223,000 to Buffalo children's hospital.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 including: Park Hill district to close schools due to COVID-19 outbreak; Kansas City area officers who killed teen won’t be charged; and Sistine Chapel immersive art exhibit coming to Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, January 25, 2021 including: The Kansas House advanced a congressional district map Monday splitting Wyandotte County along I-70, former Gardner, Kansas, police officer was stripped of his law enforcement certification over an inappropriate relationship with a victim in a domestic violence case, and Monopoly announces plans for the official Kansas City edition of the longtime family friendly game.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, January 24th, 2022 including: Missouri jail officer defends wearing Confederate flag to prom; KC Chiefs defender accused of pushing ex-girlfriend; and COVID-19 testing continues this week at temporary Kauffman Stadium site.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, January 21st, 2022 including: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay Jr. pleads not guilty to property damage charge; Missouri districts may close schools due to COVID; and a seventh child in Kansas has died from COVID-19.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, January 20th, 2022 including: Federal task force officer shoots armed suspect in Kansas City, highway patrol says; MO governor proposes big budget increase in State of State; and ex-Kansas City guard sues City Hall for race discrimination.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 including: Kevin Strickland sues Missouri’s prison healthcare provider; Kansas health department to end coronavirus contact tracing; and Kate Spade is closing on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, January 14th, 2022 including: Proposed Jackson County health ordinance pulled after threats; KU students, faculty anxious about in-person spring semester; and founder of Kansas City’s Red Door Woodfired Grill dies at 56.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, January 13th, 2022 including: Kansas school officials declare emergency, relax substitute teacher requirements; Missouri Republicans push to make it harder to change state constitution; and Kansas City Restaurant Week is almost here.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 including: Missouri education officials grant accreditation to KCPS; Kelly outraises Schmidt in year leading up to Governor’s race; and people turned away from COVID-19 testing at Kauffman Stadium.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, January11, 2021 including: A Kansas woman was sentenced Monday to two years’ probation and 60 hours of community service for her role in the Capitol riot, Kansas City area students still being required to wear masks and as many as 90% of people hospitalized with COVID in the Kansas City area are unvaccinated.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, January 10th, 2022 including: Parent says former Olathe teacher sexually harassed child; Park Hill School District brings back school mask mandate; and KC Chiefs beat Denver Broncos 28-24.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, January 7th, 2022 including: Mayor Lucas to introduce mask mandate in Kansas City schools; Missouri woman charged in Capitol riot arrested in fatal crash; and Johnson County students up to 6th grade will continue masking.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, January 6th, 2022 including: Kansas City Proud Boys Capitol riot case is delayed again; KC hospital leaders alarmed at COVID surge, plead for help; Average cost of new homes in Kansas City tops half a million; and U.S. Mint set to start selling Negro League Baseball coin collection this week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 including: Kansas City area health and education officials warn that schools will have a hard time remaining open amid rising COVID-19 cases, Stockton doctor David Smock is still sitting in an Arkansas county jail cell, and a massive mixed-use development along 135th Street in Leawood won preliminary approval from city leaders.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, January 4, 2021 including: The University of Kansas Health System is missing more than 500 of its more than 13,500 employees because of COVID, former President Donald Trump endorsed Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt in the race for governor and Lenexa’s Orchard Corners Shopping Center, just west of Oak Park Mall, has been sold.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on January 3rd, 2022 including: the Chiefs’ tough loss to the Cincinnati Bengals; Kansas City Mayor Lucas has tested positive for COVID-19; KCK driver crashes into home, leaving one dead on New Years; and Missouri refills stock of at-home COVID tests for residents.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on December 29th, 2021 including: Missouri AG files new, more serious child sex charges against boarding school doctor; Missouri adopts CDC guidance on shortened quarantine time, Kansas not following suit yet; and Plowboys BBQ closes Johnson County restaurant due to pandemic.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, December 28, 2021 including: The southwest Missouri doctor who has treated students at boarding schools in the Ozarks for years still had not been arrested, five people were killed in Kansas City, officially making 2021 the second-deadliest year on record, Jim Leedy, known as the founder of the Crossroads Arts District and a towering figure in the Kansas City art world, died at the age of 91 and two die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fans got married on the field Sunday.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, December 27, 2021, including: a COVID-19 surge in the KC metro area, a GoFundMe started to raise money for the funeral expenses of a teen found dead after being reported missing, and a suspect in the death of a 2-year-old who was handling a gun that discharged is being held in custody out of state and awaiting extradition back to Jackson County.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, December 24th, 2021 including: Three Springfield men charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection plead guilty, a group of women who took items from an Ulta Beauty shop in the Northland are under investigation after they threatened a store employee with a Taser and a Johnson County man has tested positive for the omicron variant of COVID-19, the first such case in the county and third in the Kansas City area this week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 including: A Kansas City man has been sentenced to six years in prison for the killing of another Kansas City man in 2019, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly wants the Legislature to give every Kansas taxpayer $250 next year and the Chiefs have no additional positive COVID tests on Wednesday morning.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday. December 22, 2021 including: Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said he’s bullish on Cerner’s future in Kansas City, woman killed in a crash when a Kansas City firetruck collided with an SUV in Westport has been identified, an update on medical marijuana in Missouri and the list of Chiefs players added to the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list grows to 13.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 including:
The first confirmed cases of omicron variant of COVID-19 in the Kansas City area, Software giant Oracle announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to purchase healthcare IT company Cerner Corp., Kansas City police have publicly identified all three victims in last week’s deadly Westport crash and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly dismissed outrage over “critical race theory.”
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, December 17th, 2021 including: Kansas City fire truck told to ‘stand down’ before fatal crash; Kansas confirms first case of omicron variant of COVID-19 in the state; Some Evergy customers may be without power for days after Wednesday storms, CEO says; and Kansas City will subsidize housing construction on empty lots.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, December 16th, 2021 including: High winds force closure of I-70 from Hays, Kansas, to Colorado; Blue Springs Schools owes 4 million to former trans student; Omicron variant of COVID is ‘very likely’ in Kansas, health department says; and KC Chiefs cornerback L’Jarius Sneed thanks fans for support.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday. December 15th, 2021 including: MO Supreme Court to decide on medical marijuana secrecy; Kansas City area school districts to drop mask mandates after Missouri AG order; Former MO GOP chair subpoenaed in Capitol riot probe is new attorney for Olathe Proud Boy; and Kansas City Chiefs’ Chris Jones in COVID-19 protocol.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 including: Jackson County won’t be reinstating its mask mandate, strong, damaging winds are expected to be blowing through the Kansas City metro area this week, a shooting early Sunday at Tate’s Bar in the Aggieville Business District near the Kansas State University campus and First Watch has closed a longtime Overland Park location.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, December 13th, 2021 including: Senator Bob Dole memorialized in hometown Russell KS service; Missouri AG threatens to sue Jackson County again over masks; investigation opened after person at Jackson County jail dies; and the Chiefs blow out the Raiders.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, December 10th, 2021 including: Bob Dole lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda; defense puts onus on weather, radars in 2018 Branson duck boat tragedy that killed 17; Laclede County Health Department stops COVID work; and lawmakers seek to expand compensation to the innocent after Kevin Strickland’s release.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, December 9th, 2021 including: President Biden, in Kansas City, declares time has come for ‘action’ on infrastructure; Missouri AG Eric Schmitt orders schools to drop COVID rules, but schools refuse; Branson duck boat operators face court on charges from 2018 tragedy that killed 17; and Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and the moon are visible in the sky in KC.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 including: Kansas and Missouri public universities are no longer requiring staff members to be vaccinated, Kansas City police budget discussions, COVID-19 cases in the Kansas City area are on the rise and Bob Dole will lie in repose at the Kansas Capitol on Saturday.
An uptick of killings in the Kansas City area, U.S. Senator Bob Dole will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is proposing to pay all state employees at least $15 an hour and Chick-fil-A fans will have another Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, December 6, 2021, including the death of former Kansas Senator Bob Dole, President Joe Biden's upcoming trip to Kansas City and AdventHealth suspends its employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, December 3rd. 2021 including: 1 dead, 2 hurt after vehicle hits pedestrians outside Kansas City, Kansas, Walmart; Kansas City Council approves extension of mask mandate for schools through year’s end; New ordinance would guarantee a lawyer for all eviction cases; and Kansas City police detective convicted in fatal shooting to be sentenced in March.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 including: Child, suspect dead, 2 others injured in shootings in KCK; Marshall threatens government shutdown over vaccine mandate; Quinton Lucas reacts to KC Police Chief Rick Smith audio; and law firm donates $1M to MU for Black lawyers, journalists.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 including: Police Chief Rick Smith said ‘bad guy’s dead’ minutes after KC detective killed Cameron Lamb; Kansas City unveils plan to help homeless find winter shelter; Union says Lansing corrections officer was working solo when attacked by inmate; and Kansas City Public Library condemns push to ban, censor books in schools.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 including: The Kansas House will investigate Rep. Aaron Coleman, Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners confirmed on Monday that Police Chief Rick Smith will retire, an effort to do away with partisan primaries in Missouri and replace them with a “ranked choice” method and The Pitch has changed ownership.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, November 29, 2021, including: Kevin Strickland lights Kansas City Mayor Christmas tree; Traffic to be rerouted for Whataburger opening in Independence; and Curley Culp, KC Chiefs and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 including: Kevin Strickland freed after judge vacates conviction in 1978 triple murders; KC Police Chief Rick Smith forced out days after officer convicted of manslaughter; 8-year-old Olathe boy was badly burned when he allegedly was set on fire by a bully and High school students in the North Kansas City School District on Monday evening condemned recent efforts by a Northland social group to remove certain books from the school library.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 including: the start of Kansas lawmakers' special session, Missouri law enforcement officials asking for revisions to a new state law and a pedestrian seriously injured on the Truman Sports Complex property during the Kansas City Chiefs game.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, November 22, 2021 including: KC officer found guilty in 2019 fatal shooting of Black man; Missouri health agency approves COVID-19 booster shots for all adults; and Chiefs and family of girl injured in Britt Reid crash finalize agreement for her care.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, November 19th, 2021 including: Murder charges filed in death of southwest Missouri woman as grisly details revealed; Verdict in trial of Kansas City officer expected Friday; University of Missouri system to require vaccines for staff; and how Clark Hunt believes a downtown baseball stadium might affect his Kansas City Chiefs.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, November 18th, 2021 including: Kansas OKs COVID-19 booster vaccine to ages 18 and older; More jurors say Michael Politte deserves new trial in Missouri; Gardner Edgerton schools ends mask mandate for older students; and KU Jayhawks football’s Jared Casey cashing in on NIL deals after Texas game-winner.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 including: New details released in KS Rep. Aaron Coleman’s battery arrest; Shawnee Mission to drop mask mandate for middle, high school; Kansas City police officer fires at vehicle allegedly speeding towards patrol car; and Kansas City’s Van Gogh show a ‘No Gogh’ until February.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 including: Park Hill South High School students have sued the Park Hill school district for being disciplined over a slavery petition, REpublican Missouri state Sen. Dave Schatz filed paperwork to run for U.S. Senate, Kansas prepares to allocate $1.6 billion in federal COVID-19 aid and Whataburger opens in Lee’s Summit.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, November 15, 2021 including: KCK eyes overhead gondola as a new means of transit to connect to downtown Kansas City; Missouri Secretary of State wants legislature to increase Republican seats in Congressional map; and Blue Springs School District drops mask mandate after Jackson County health order ends.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, November 12th, 2021 including: Kevin Strickland’s fate up to judge after innocence hearing; Kansas City sees light snowfall, hail Thursday afternoon; Second loaded gun found on Raytown South campus this week; and first Kansas City area Whataburger opening in Lee’s Summit.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, November 11th, 2021 including: Missouri, Kansas AGs sue to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers; Kevin Strickland remains ‘hopeful’ as testimony continues in evidence hearing; Firefighters union chief collects city salary while working other full-time job in DC; and Odell Beckham Jr., now a free agent, reportedly lists Chiefs as team he’d like to join.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 including: The latest in the trial of Eric DeValkenaere in the killing of Cameron Lamb, a stabbing at F.L. Schlagle High School, Kansas Republicans predict they have enough support to call the Legislature into special session later this month to fight COVID-19 vaccine mandates and Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated the Hatch act.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 including: The latest in the Kevin Strickland wrongful conviction case, a suspected serial killer named in the killings at Wyandotte Towers, the Kansas food sales tax and Stockyards Brewing Co. in Kansas City’s West Bottoms wants to open in Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, November 8, 2021, including: Northland parents sue to block Kansas City school mask order; approval of the Kansas City Police Department’s operating budget for next year; and Children’s Mercy’s vaccine clinics for children are filled through November.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, November 5th, 2021 including: Appointments fill up for KC area kids to get COVID shots; Lawsuit alleges Hawley received illegal campaign funds from NRA; Kevin Strickland’s innocence hearing set for Monday; and Missouri AG announces lawsuit ahead of Biden vaccine rule.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, November 4th, 2021 including: Skoog defeats conservative rival in tight Overland Park mayoral race; St. Louis County prosecutor agrees Kevin Strickland wrongly convicted; Kansas prepares to vaccinate younger kids against COVID-19; and Kansas City Country Club Plaza sues 2 longtime restaurants for almost $900K in rent.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 including: Former Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore dies at 75; Wyandotte County expecting low voter turnout for 2021 election; nearly all Saint Luke’s workers comply with vaccine mandate; and Kansas City Chiefs trade for edge rusher Melvin Ingram in deal with Steelers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 including: a Kansas state representative pleads not guilty to misdemeanor domestic battery, a federal grand jury indicts a Menorah Medical Center nurse for removing vials of fentanyl and replacing them with another liquid, and a mask order in eastern Jackson County is again extended.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, November 1st, 2021 including: Kansas AG Schmidt files lawsuit against Biden vaccine mandate for federal contractors; Kansas lawmaker compares COVID-19 requirements to Holocaust; and KC NWSL team unveils new name and logo during season finale.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, October 29th, 2021 including: Missouri Gov. Parson issues order against expected Biden workplace vaccination rule; Kansas City City Hall prepares to shelter homeless in winter; Johnson County sheriff calls his office ‘safe haven’ for cops ‘unsupported’ elsewhere; and KC Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes takes blame for bad start.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, October 28th, 2021 including: Missouri Senate candidate Mark McCloskey says teen incest victims should be denied abortions; KC committee considers declaring climate, ecological emergency; and charged Agape staffers list another school as their home.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, October 27th, 2021 including: KC NWSL women’s pro-soccer team to build riverfront stadium in downtown Kansas City; Kansas City considers bid to host 2024 Republican National Convention; Kansas City police investigate a 5th threat made against metro area school; and Kansas City Zoo provides first look at $75 million new aquarium as it appeals to donors.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, October 25th, 2021 including: AG Eric Schmitt says Missouri taxpayers did not foot bill for trip to U.S.-Mexico border; new CEO of Kansas City’s Cerner Corp. announces layoffs following Reddit post; three Kansas universities will require employees to be vaccinated by December; and Chiefs are blown out in Nashville.
The top headlines from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Friday, October 22nd, 2021, including paramedic staffing down two-thirds in Arlington, official for Tarrant vaccine program shared “misleading” tweet, driver dead after Arlington police officer shoots man who was driving toward officer and ‘Billy Oaks’ barbecue and chicken-fried steaks on the move again in Fort Worth.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 including: Group says it will train Christians in ‘hand-to-hand combat’ at SW Missouri event; Kansas City NAACP believes Park Hill schools taking necessary steps after racist petition; Missouri, Texas AGs sue Biden to force U.S.-Mexico border wall construction; and Kansas City winter will likely be warmer than normal.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 including: Kansas City police paid out more than $9.5M in brutality, force claims since 2014; After vowing to fight racism in Park Hill schools, superintendent is stepping down; Wesley Hamilton gets $1 million for Disabled But Not Really; and sketch released in hunt for Midwest serial killer who terrorized I-70 30 years ago.
The top headlines from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Thursday, October 21st, 2021, including massive Texas ranch goes on sale for eye-popping $200M price tag, how to help Fort Worth children during the holidays, Fort Worth City Council awards $19.7 million in federal funding to these four projects and Japan House near Fort Worth has a robot cat serving sushi.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 including: Marshall tries to stop certain research as part of his crusade on origins of COVID-19; Johnson County district makes masks optional for older students as COVID cases fall; Rae’s Cafe to reopen in Independence after defying Jackson County mask, health orders; and The Weeknd cancels KC concert, Nelly switches show to Uptown.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 including: A Blue Valley school board candidate facing backlash over anti-trans comments, Jackson County settling with the Abundant Life Baptist Church, and a Johnson County judge sealing the affidavit used to support bringing child sex crime charges against the choir director at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, October 18, 2021, including: Mayor Lucas files complaint against KCPD officer who made unauthorized search of him; Chiefs superfan ‘X-Factor’ banned from Arrowhead Stadium after fight goes viral; Local college grads competed in, and won, Kansas City Marathon titles on Saturday; and recapping a Chiefs win.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, October 15th, 2021 including: Feds launch grand jury investigation into ex-KCK cop Roger Golubski, CNN reports; Jackson County Executive Frank White proclaims Oct. 15 as Rafaela ‘Lali’ Garcia Day; Second juror now says Missouri prisoner is innocent in 1998 murder; and after viral videos show fights at Arrowhead, Chiefs say security gets high marks.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, October 14th, 2021 including: Miami County nixes petition to create city of Golden, KS; Missed mammograms lead to more cancer deaths, experts warn; Safety groups call for action after Kansas City Chiefs fan killed; Kansas Republicans condemn Biden economic agenda following KCK visit by first lady.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 including: First lady Jill Biden addresses small business aid, Latino concerns in KCK visit; Sheriff issues citation to allegedly drunk fan after Arrowhead Stadium altercation; Enrollment in KS schools dropped by more than 15K in the first 18 months of COVID-19; and Jason Sudeikis returning to Kansas City soon for a music and comedy fundraiser.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 including: Kevin Strickland speaks, judge strikes down Missouri’s residency requirement for ownership in the state’s medical marijuana companies, Jill Biden’s visit to Kansas City and fan killed when struck by two hit-and-run drivers as he left Sunday night’s Kansas City Chiefs football game at Arrowhead Stadium identified.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, October 11, 2021, including a KCPD officer's ‘unauthorized’ search of Mayor Lucas in a database and First Lady Jill Biden to visit KCK’s El Centro Academy next week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, October 8th, 2021 including: KC Council approves November extension to mask order; Missing Missouri woman allegedly kept in cage attended Kansas City-area high school; Kansas City Council rejects downtown luxury hotel incentives; and JoCo GOP chair resigns after accusations he forcibly kissed other Kansas GOP official.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, October 7th, 2021 including: Mystery surrounds case of MO Ozarks woman seen in cage; Unsuccessful KCI bidders join to challenge city’s selection, calling it ‘predetermined’; Why KC Council considering mask extension as cases trend down; and First lady Jill Biden traveling to Kansas City, Kan., next week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 including: Judge rules Kansas City violated state law with plan to reallocate KCPD funds; Kelly creates Kansas child welfare oversight office; Ozarks home where woman reportedly kept in cage burns; and KC Chiefs’ Frank Clark pleads not guilty to weapons charges.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 including: Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s efforts to shutter Planned Parenthood, the planned execution of Ernest Lee Johnson, a nurse indicted for stealing fentanyl and construction at the Buck O’Neil Bridge in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, October 4, 2021, including: Cerner rolls out vaccine mandate for all U.S. workers; Prairie Village considers banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth; and the Chiefs get a big win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, October 1st, 2021 including: Kevin Strickland hearing delayed after Missouri Supreme Court disqualifies local judges; Shawnee chief wants Kansas mission searched for buried kids; Raytown High School teacher under investigation for using N-word during class; and stolen Indigenous art display at University of Kansas is recovered, authorities say.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 including: Nearly all Truman Med employees follow COVID vaccine rule; KCI concessions contract approved, heads to council after dramatic meeting; Advocates say intellectually disabled Missouri murderer should not be executed next week; and KC Chiefs coach Andy Reid gives update on his health.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, September 29th, 2021 including: Five are charged with abuse at Agape Boarding School in Missouri; Park Hill leader says district hiring expert to fight racism after pro-slavery petition; Health care employees to wear panic buttons as assaults triple at Missouri hospital; and Overland Park is named best city in America for people with disabilities.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 including: Chiefs coach Andy Reid being released from the hospital, guilty please in connection with the U.S. Capitol insurrection, a string of racist incidents at Kansas City area schools and the Cleveland fan who walked away with Royals catcher Salvador Perez home run ball.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 27, 2021, including Missouri’s path to legalizing recreational marijuana, the latest on Agape Boarding School, housing demands from KC Tenants and the closure of a Blue Springs cafe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 27, 2021, including Missouri’s path to legalizing recreational marijuana, the latest on Agape Boarding School, housing demands from KC Tenants and the closure of a Blue Springs cafe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 27, 2021, including Missouri’s path to legalizing recreational marijuana, the latest on Agape Boarding School, housing demands from KC Tenants and the closure of a Blue Springs cafe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 27, 2021, including Missouri’s path to legalizing recreational marijuana, the latest on Agape Boarding School, housing demands from KC Tenants and the closure of a Blue Springs cafe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, September 24th, 2021 including: Judge orders Blue Springs cafe to close after it continuously defied mask mandate; Sharice Davids backs abortion rights bill in Congress; Country Club Plaza sues Kansas City developer for $106,922 in back rent on offices; and Kansas middle school student dies of COVID-19, education official says.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, September 23rd, 2021 including: Disturbing, racist petition prompts parents to call for accountability at Park Hill South High School; Chick-fil-A no longer part of recommended bid for new Kansas City airport terminal; Judge will rule this week if county can force mask-defiant Blue Springs cafe to close; and Kansas City area school board member and restaurant owner dies of COVID at age 48.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 including: Johnson County school district with weak COVID rules is warned it has worst case rate; Don Chilito’s Mexican Restaurant closing in Johnson County; Jay-Z’s legal team wants court to release KCK police files; and federal appeals court could allow Missouri 8-week abortion bans to go into effect.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, September 20th, 2021 including: Kansas City’s mask mandate is back on the table this week; Kansas City firefighters battle 2-alarm blaze at Waldo church after preschool evacuated; Mask-defiant Blue Springs cafe says Jackson County mandate ‘unconstitutionally created’ ; and Andy Reid says Chiefs are ‘going back to drawing board’ to address defensive woes.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 20, 2021, including our top Chiefs story, coverage of Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall’s town hall in Wyandotte County, the latest on a Missourian charged in the Capitol riot, and the scoop on a new area restaurant.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, September 17th, 2021 including: City unveils winner of lucrative concessions bid at Kansas City’s new airport terminal; Slain Independence officer was newly engaged, 18 days on the job; Judge sets trial date for ex-Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid in drunken driving charge; and Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez hits 45th homer, tying Johnny Bench’s record.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, September 16, 2021 including: Suspect dead and Independence police officer injured in shooting, Missouri patrol says; GoFundMe pulls campaign meant to cover legal fees for mask-defiant Blue Springs cafe; KCPD board system deprives African Americans of police control, new lawsuit says; and KC Chiefs’ Reid says everyone, Mathieu and Clark included, was to practice Wednesday.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 including: KC Royals ‘need to start thinking’ about a new stadium, possibly downtown, owner says; Petition to ban KU fraternity following alleged assault garners thousands of signatures; Missouri Republicans want new photo ID law for voters, but lawsuit could follow; and Kansas City metro recording an average of 513 new COVID cases, 12 deaths every day.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, September 14th, 2021 including: UMKC faces criticism for silence after Missouri capitol removes student-created gay rights exhibit; Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel, avoiding jail, must apologize to victims and stay off Facebook; Man fatally struck by train Sunday night in Platte County, authorities say; KC Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu will return to lineup vs. Ravens, coach Andy Reid says.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, September 13, 2021, including the ongoing conflict in Jackson County with Rae’s Cafe, the resignation of a CEO linked to an anti-mask group, the Chiefs come-from-behind win over Cleveland, and local COVID numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, September 10th, 2021 including: Neighbors near 19th and Vine killing want end to Kansas City violence; Missouri AG won’t defend state officials in lawsuit, citing undisclosed conflict; The school bus might not come, Kansas City area district warns, due to staff shortage; DA drops sex abuse case of KCK priest. Trial ‘not in the best interests’ of victim.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, September 9th, 2021 including: Gay teacher says Missouri district threatened firing if he brought ‘personal agenda’ to class; Johnson County school district is ‘discriminatory’ in its COVID rules, lawyers claim; Kansas AG aides attended ‘war games’ summit where group planned response to Biden win; With opener near, Kansas City Chiefs’ Tyrann Mathieu remains on reserve/COVID-19 list.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 including Missouri Republican will push anti-abortion bill similar to Texas; Will a pilot program in the infrastructure bill help reshape Kansas City’s inner-loop?; Hundreds of Kansas City area students quarantined for COVID; This isn’t last year’s Kentucky offense that the Missouri Tigers will see this week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, including the continuing Kevin Strickland saga, more evidence originally missing from Overland Park's release of files in a police shooting, another shot at the Kansas City Streetcar crossing the Missouri River and the Chiefs look to have their top two running backs return for the season opener.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, September 3rd, 2021 including LGBT exhibit removed from Missouri capitol after complaints about promoting ‘agenda’; John Albers’ mom says Johnson County nonprofit breaks law with police shooting meetings; Gov. Kelly announces task force on school COVID, nixes state mask mandates; Here’s the Kansas City Royals’ plan for Adalberto Mondesi, who homered in return.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 including Kevin Strickland’s innocence claim hearing was postponed after AG asks court for delay, a Missouri prosecutor will file assault charges against Agape Boarding School staffers, the University of Kansas Health System has mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for employees and KCPD claims it will run out of money if a $42 million funding reallocation sticks, but Mayor Lucas says that is ‘totally incorrect’.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 including Mayor Lucas says Kansas City should prepare for Afghan refugees, Kansas may spend decades — or even more than a century — recouping the sales tax revenue from STAR bonds projects, a Kansas City-area Chipotle fires assistant manager who tried to remove a worker’s hijab and a judge could free Kevin Strickland this week when prosecutors argue he’s innocent.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 including Jackson County legislators voted to extend the county’s mask order until Oct. 7, several influential restaurant owners say they’ve been left in the dark as the city contemplates various bids for a massive KCI contract in private, Jeff Colyer dropped out of the Kansas governor’s race following a prostate cancer diagnosis and prosecutors used a new state law to file a motion asking a Jackson County judge to exonerate Kevin Strickland.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 30, 2021, including a Missouri Marine killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan; a new playground at Martin Luther King Jr. Square Park, courtesy of Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes' foundation; new evidence in an Overland Park fatal police shooting case; and the Royals send another lefty pitcher to the IL.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 27th, 2021 including the Johnson County Commission decided Thursday to levy fines of up to $1,000 against reckless shooters, Truman Medical Centers has started offering free COVID-19 treatments to eligible metro residents, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed the VP of a capital management firm to fill a vacancy on the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners and ‘GEHA Field at Arrowhead’ seeks to align with KC Chiefs’ ‘Patrick Mahomes generation.’
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, August 26th, 2021 including a Leavenworth County resident may be the first person on record to die from COVID-19 in the nation, a veteran Missouri political consultant and lobbyist pled guilty to a felony tax charge in U.S. District Court, Kansas and Missouri hospitals are fighting for travel nurses as beds fill up, and a Shawnee, Kansas, couple says they want justice for their so, who was fatally tackled by a Kansas City police officer.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 including President Joe Biden finds Missouri AG Schmitt’s lawsuit seeking to block school mask mandates “unacceptable,’ the Gardner-Edgerton school district expanded its mask mandate due to COVID, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has asked a judge to appoint a special prosecutor in the Malcolm Johnson case, and what does ACC, Big Ten, Pac-12 conference alliance mean for the beleaguered Big 12?
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 24th, 2021, including Joplin became the first region in Missouri with over 50% of its population vaccinated, trailer park residents will get twice as much money to make way for new Jackson County jail, Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel scheduled for a plea and sentencing in battery charges next month and proof of vaccination will be required to attend events at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts beginning Sept. 6.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 23, 2021, including a shooting in Westport's entertainment district, a mask mandate for Raymore-Peculiar schools, continued COVID-19 spread in Kansas and a high school basketball star cuts his list of prospective colleges to a final four.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 20th, 2021, including the Kansas City Council approves mask mandate extension to late September, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sues Jackson County over mask mandate, Kansas City’s Cerner Corp. hires Google executive David Feinberg as its newest CEO and Kansas City Royals’ Adalberto Mondesi will start another rehab assignment.
Episode description: The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday August 19th, 2021, including stories about Missouri COVID-19 testing program in public schools, the arrest of 5 people accused of killing an Emporia teenager, Joe Biden’s approval rating falling below 50% for the first time, and the Chiefs wrapping up their training camp.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday August 18th, 2021, including stories about Kansas and Missouri Republicans' sharp criticism of President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, U.S. health authorities recommending an extra dose of the vaccine for all Americans, Mike Pompeo lending his thoughts on the Taliban, and news about former Kansas University center Joel Embiid’s new $196 million contract extension.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday August 17th, 2021, including stories about the disposal of 81,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations, a new collective bargaining agreement signed by local nurses, Kansas Representative Mark Samsel’s legal troubles, and Patrick Mahomes’ new Adidas signature sneaker.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 16, 2021, including physicians urging pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine, two police officers injured in a hit-and-run, Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi faces a setback in his rehab and Overland Park now has three Whataburger restaurants in the works.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday August 13th, 2021, including stories about Missouri having reached a grim pandemic milestone, a new vaccine mandate for the Kansas City Public School District, the death of a beloved local musician who recorded with Jimi Hendrix and Chiefs preseason updates.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, August 12th, 2021, including stories about Kansas reforming its mental health care system, the Raytown superintendent stepping down, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urging all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine and Alex Smith joining ESPN as a NFL analyst.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 11th, 2021, including stories about Medicaid expansion, the cancelation of DaBaby’s Kansas City concert, Patrick Mahomes’ mission to bring Whataburger Franchises to Kansas City, and Springfield’s covid numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 10th, 2021, including stories about the proposed federal infrastructure package, fallout from last week’s Garth Brooks concert at Arrowhead Stadium, a lawsuit against a Christian reform school and the renovation of the former home of baseball legend, Satchel Paige.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 9, 2021, including increased vaccination rates in Missouri and Kansas, a fatal shooting at a KC hotel, a teen on a bicycle killed in a hit-and-run and the Royals shifting to a six-man pitching rotation with the return of Brady Singer.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, August 6th, 2021 , including Johnson County will require masks in all grade schools, U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey wants his guns returned to him now that Gov. Mike Parson has pardoned him, a new lawsuit seeks building repairs in Kansas City’s 18th & Vine and the number of children being hospitalized with the virus is rising in Greene County.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, August 5th, 2021, including Democrats decry Parson’s McCloskeys pardon as Kevin Strickland sits behind bars, Kansas Citians react to the new federal eviction moratorium, Jackson County announces plans to reinstate its mask order and someone stole the female Osage Indian statue at Chouteau Heritage Fountain in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, August 4th, 2021, including Kansas City area hospitals are so full, they’re asking people not to go to the emergency room unless they have a true emergency, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed a lawsuit against Kansas City’s new mask mandate, President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to enact a partial moratorium on evictions following a five-day protest outside the U.S. Capitol led by Missouri Rep. Cori Bush and a vehicle fleeing from shooting suspects crashed Tuesday in Kansas City, sending four people to hospitals.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, including a Missouri Boy Scout camp sent kids home early after a handful of people attending the last session of the summer tested positive for COVID-19, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said he will prosecute any election crimes in Douglas County that the district attorney refuses to act on, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said that each remaining school in the league can expect to earn about $14 million less per year without Texas and OU and Jason Isbell’s Kansas City area concert has been canceled due to ‘unforeseen circumstances.’
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, August 2, 2021, including the expiration of the federal eviction moratorium, a car crashes into the historic McConahay Building, a new peak average for COVID-19 cases in the KC Metro area and Michael Corvino's restaurant, Ravenous, shuts down in Parlor food hall.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 30th, 2021, including all University of Missouri campuses will require masks in class this fall, regardless of vaccination status, the National Weather Service in Kansas City has issued an excessive heat warning for the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding counties, the Johnson County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote next week on whether to issue a new countywide mask mandate and ESPN responds to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby’s cease-and-desist letter.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 29th, 2021, including Kansas City will once again be under a mask mandate, Cerner Corp. plans to sell off one of its major office campuses this year, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly required masks for state employees but stopped short of a new statewide mandate and cooler weather is in sight as Kansas City faces two more days of dangerous excessive heat.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, including Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says the city is looking at new CDC COVID guidance, Kansas City police board loosened its residency rule but doesn’t include Kansas, the Missouri attorney general says a judge’s ruling and release of reform school owners was ‘completely improper’ and Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes has bought an ownership stake in Sporting KC.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, including local leaders seek federal investigation of Kansas City police, Children’s Mercy says that its hospital has reached capacity, 27 people at two southwest Missouri health systems died over the weekend from COVID-19 and the Kansas City Chiefs have retired Warpaint, a horse ridden by a Chiefs cheerleader, on the field on game days.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 26, 2021, including Whiteman Air Force Base's reinstated mask mandate, more pleas from local health officials regarding COVID-19, a new union contract signed at a Frito-Lay plant in Topeka and Daniel Lynch tosses eight scoreless innings for the Kansas City Royals to get his first career win.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 23, 2021, including more evidence revealed in Overland Park police shooting of John Albers went unreported, Missouri Supreme Court upholds voter-approved Medicaid expansion, Bob Meneilly dies, and Kansas City’s NWSL women’s pro soccer team trades star captain ‘A-Rod’ for 3 new faces.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 22, 2021, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson reveals COVID vaccine incentive program with cash and prizes, New head of Missouri state health agency appointed, Missouri hits new peak in delta variant cases, and Kansas City Zoo director to retire at the end of 2021.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has criticized federal aid but received a PPP loan, heat expected to “really get cranking” in Kansas City, a woman bought an anti-racist billboard to counter a confederate flag, and Sporting KC fans can get vaccinated at upcoming matches and receive a free scarf.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, including details on the updated masking guidance in Kansas City, popular area restaurants benefited from federal assistance during the pandemic, everytown for Gun Safety is calling on Kansas City residents to send a message to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners urging them to make gun violence prevention a priority during every board meeting, and United States gymnast Kara Eaker from the Kansas City area tests positive for COVID-19 before the Tokyo Olympics.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 19, 2021, including Kansas City health officials recommending that people wear masks in public again, criminal charges filed against Branson duck boat company, a man charged in a gang-related shooting in Lake Ozark and Tuesday's Kansas City Royals game has changed start times because of the NBA Finals.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 16, 2021, including human remains found on an eastern Jackson County residential property belong to Kensie Renee Aubry, Kansas City’s homeless community asks for extension to temporary hotel initiative, two notorious Plaza-area ‘rat houses’ sell for $250K each in hot Kansas City market, and a Kansas Citian overcame fear and depression to become the world’s fastest blind runner.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 15, 2021, including a look at the potential for COVID-19 restrictions in Kansas City, two people are dead and three others are injured after a house fire, authorities discovered human remains on a residential property in unincorporated Jackson County, and Smokin’ Joe’s Bar-B-Q & Catering announced it is closing its doors.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, including some counties in the Kansas City metro area have even lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than the Springfield area, Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday implicitly attacked one of the city’s major hospital operators for announcing that it will require its employees to be vaccinated, Joel Tucker shows up for sentencing this time and is ordered to spend 12.5 years behind bars, and Brinley Hutson is welcomed home.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, including Kevin Strickland could go free if August innocence hearing goes his way, a woman has been on a ventilator for over 100 days after COVID-19 infection, Whataburger grants fans’ wish with a Kansas City location as 5 more are in the works, and a new Main Street mural reiterates Kansas City’s desire to be host city.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, July 12, 2021, including steadily climbing COVID-19 cases in Missouri, a wastewater plant dumps untreated water into the Blue River, a juvenile victim identified in a shooting and the Kansas City Royals are rained out in their last game before the MLB All-Star break.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 9, 2021, including Gov. Mike Parson responds to federal assistance to combat the spread of the delta variant, Platte County prosecutors have accused a 43-year-old Missouri man of sexual assault, Jackson County’s top prosecutor is calling on Kansas City police to stop sending her office hundreds of low-level drug crimes, and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a brief Thursday opposing a measure that gives Kansas City more control over the police department’s budget.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 8, 2021, including recent COVID-19 deaths at Springfield hospital were mostly unvaccinated, the state of Kansas overcame bleak expectations to collect 9.3% more tax revenue than expected in the 2021 budget year, State Rep. Sara Walsh announced Wednesday she is running for Congress, and all the barbecue places you need to try in Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, including a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, ran out of ventilators for its patients over the weekend, a KCPD community interaction officer lashed out in writing recently at church pastors who criticized a controversial police shooting, and a Topeka Democrat is challenging Rep. Jake LaTurner to represent Kansas’ second district in Congress.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, including 23 fires put out by the Kansas City Fire Department on the Fourth of July, a potential grand prize for COVID-19 vaccine recipients as cases surge, a police accountability report ranks KCPD 495th out of 500 departments and an ex-crime ring leader is released early on compassionate release.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, July 2, 2021, including a Homeland Security sting on human trafficking, Missouri seeks federal aid to combat the rise in cases of the Delta variant, two KC area colleges will require COVID-19 vaccinations in the fall and gas prices remain high heading into Independence Day weekend.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, July 1, 2021, including Missouri lawmakers sent the renewal of a tax critical to funding Medicaid to Gov. Mike Parson, federal officials say firework explosions are too common in the KC area, COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising and the men who ran onto the field during the Super Bowl have pleaded no contest to trespassing and agreed to a year of probation.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, including news laws go into effect in Kansas, a lawsuit by Cameron Lamb’s family is one of several pending against Kansas City police, air show stars are a first for Kansas City area, and the Chiefs are looking for their fan of the year.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, June 25, 2021, including detectives continue to investigate two fatal police shootings that unfolded last week in Kansas City, Missouri’s Bush and Hawley offer divergent visions of policing with federal dollars, Truman library to reopen, and KC-area gymnasts qualify for olympics.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, June 28, 2021, including the Missouri Senate's renewal of a critical Medicaid tax, tenants' rights activists march for better conditions, a man charged with murder in a June shooting and a former Mizzou Tigers track star qualifies for the Tokyo Olympics in a second event.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, June 25, 2021, including Gov. Mike Parson said he is not convinced Kevin Strickland is innocent, Kansas approved the state’s first-ever express toll lanes on Johnson County highway, Kansas City Public Schools has banned suspensions for younger students in most situations and dozens of those who live in the unincorporated outskirts of a sprawling industrial park in southwestern Johnson County have asked to form their own city to stop encroaching development.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 24, 2021, including a look at the state of COVID-19 in Kansas and Missouri, former Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan was confirmed to lead the General Services Administration, Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark was arrested Sunday night in Los Angeles on the suspicion of a gun charge, and the disproportionate effects of high temperatures on certain neighborhoods.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, including state officials change laws governing local responses to public health emergencies, Overland Park City Council agreed to move forward with a plan to add express toll lanes to U.S. 69, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley attempted to block Kiran Ahuja’s nomination, and Kansas City leaders are calling a lawsuit against a new budget measure, which would reallocate police funds, both legally and factually false.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, including Missouri has the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in the country, a Johnson County teenager says her school district did little to help protect her from the classmate convicted of raping her, a new police department report shows two Kansas City police officers accused in three police brutality claims were also responsible for shooting a man in 2019 and Overland Park Representative Jennifer Day resigned Monday after one year in the state Legislature.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, June 21, 2021, including Juneteenth celebrations, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Midtown-Westport area, a North Kansas City councilman facing calls to resign after comments about LGBT people and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is encouraging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, June 18th, 2021, including homes are selling faster in the Kansas City area than in nearly any other American market, the Lee’s Summit school district plans to purchase Paradise Park to turn it into an early education center, a biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation said he believes heavy rains earlier this month led to a large fish kill in Brush Creek and Kansas City Chiefs’ guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has been nominated for ESPN’s Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 17th, 2021, including a shortage in Uber and Lyft drivers has created frustration for customers but means great business for Kansas City drivers, Evergy will take control of some thermostats as Kansas City faces its first heat wave, Missouri Republicans are still weighing a ban on Medicaid coverage of contraceptives as part of a compromise on renewing a crucial tax that funds the health program and the developer of a a five-star hotel in Kansas City can’t say how much the cost of the project is increasing as he tries to rally political support for the proposal.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 16th, 2021, including Democrat Tim Shepard hopes to be Missouri’s first gay senator, the Kansas City metro reports lowest daily average for new COVID-19 cases in more than a year, Kansas’s COVID-19 state of emergency ended Tuesday after Republicans called off a meeting to consider an extension, and a judge ruled Tuesday the owners of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch will remain in jail pending trial on charges that they abused students at their Christian boarding school.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, June 15th, 2021, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday will sign a bill curbing the power of local governments to close businesses, schools and churches during health emergencies, Karl Oakman was sworn in as the next police chief for Kansas City, Kansas, the hottest weather conditions of the summer so far will settle across the Kansas City area this week, and the Kansas Department of Transportation has determined that adding express toll lanes on U.S. 69 in Johnson County is the preferred option for widening the highway.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, June 14th, 2021, including KC activists calling for a ceasefire after the latest gun violence, a local company's new health deal with Apple, a sellout concert at Arrowhead Stadium and Central Missouri baseball falls short in the Division II World Series title game.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, June 11th, 2021, including Cerner Corp to lay off workers, Kansas colleges plan to bring campus operations back to normal, Vine Street Brewing to become the first Black-owned brewery in Kansas City and organizers announced even more names for Big Slick, including Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 10th, 2021, including Kansas universities say few classes explicitly teach critical race theory, Kansas Rep. LaTurner said he’d skip earmarks, but a House bill steers millions to his projects, four networks reportedly show interest in ex-Chiefs QB Alex Smith for analyst job, and Kansas City Big Slick unveils a huge celebrity guest list for this weekend’s fundraiser.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 9th, 2021, including Gov. Mike Parson indicates he will not prioritize Kevin Strickland’s clemency application, the first touring exhibition dedicated to the Auschwitz concentration camp is coming to Kansas City, multiple shootings occur in Kansas City and Garth Brooks is expected to bring record crowds to Arrowhead stadium.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, June 8th, 2021, including a labor agreement with the firefighters’ union, Britt Reid being allowed to drive while he awaits trial, Kylr Yus is sentenced to spend life plus 15 years in a Missouri prison and two Missouri counties have the highest rates of COVID-19 infection in the country.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on June 7, 2021 including: Kansas City names a street after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Shawnee man is hospitalized in a boat accident that killed three, two Raymore women sue United Airlines, and The Peanut is expanding.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, June 4th, 2021, including Gov. Mike Parson passing on the chance to free Kevin Strickland, Westport’s weekend security screenings returning, new video is released of the fatal police shooting of Malcolm Johnson and Patrick Mahomes addressed the status of his surgically repaired toe.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, June 3rd, 2021, including ministers giving surveillance video of Malcolm Johnson shooting to police, a witness protection fund going largely unused, Overland Park being named the best place to raise a family and Tatsu’s French restaurants closing.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021, including low clearance rates in the KCPD, incentives to get vaccinated, long wait times at restaurants and video of the fatal police shooting of Malcolm Johnson earlier this year.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, including a police board lawsuit against Mayor Quinton Lucas, an aspiring musician shot and killed at the Lake of the Ozarks, an investigation into a fatal police shooting was found to be incomplete and Kansas football lands six transfers from Buffalo.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, May 28, 2021, including first lady Jill Biden visiting Kansas City, funerals with the Department of Veterans Affairs return to full capacity, Britt Reid appears before a judge and Patrick Mahomes is “full-go.”
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, including the first interview with Kevin Strickland since prosecutors said he is innocent, Lufti’s Fried Fish closing, Crumbl Cookie expanding, and a social media frenzy over new Royals caps.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, including pools set to reopen, civil rights organizations voicing support for local control over KCPD’s budget, a newly-released court document details a Kansas representative’s misconduct, and the Starlight Theatre is set to reopen at full capacity next month.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, including opposition to Kansas City Policy Department spending control, first lady Jill Biden’s plans to visit Kansas City, a controversial new housing development on the city’s West Side, and a Kansas representative wants a court document kept from the public.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 24, 2021, including millions of dollars coming to address homelessness in KC, more details from a police shooting in Grandview, another pro-Palestine protest at Mill Creek Park and a Waldo restaurant is remodeled.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, May 21, 2021, including charges in the killing of beloved personal trainer Gary Taylor gunned down in Kansas City’s 18th & Vine district, a proposal by Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to change how the KCPD is funded and a Shawnee Mission school board meeting video is banned from YouTube.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 20, 2021, including the Biden administration proposing an end to state-levels restrictions on food stamps over drug offenses, Kansas losing one-third of its county health officials during the pandemic, a Northland couple suing the Kansas City police over the shooting of their dog and a downtown traffic headache coming this weekend.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, including a ruling against Missouri regulators withholding medical marijuana applications, Missouri regulators ease the rules governing design of massive industrial hog facilities, rural counties in Kansas and Missouri are falling behind vaccinating residents against the coronavirus and the latest COVID numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, including charges for a Kansas representative for alleged battery of two 16-year-olds, the Kansas Chamber of Commerce cuts ties with the national Chamber, weekend thunderstorms soaked the metro area and hot dog chain Wienerschnitzel could be coming to Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 17, 2021, including the latest on an innocent inmate’s attempts to be freed from a Missouri prison, how school districts are approaching masks after the CDC’s recent guidance, a fatal car crash, and an update on Kansas City Chief’s rookie minicamp.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, May 14, 2021, including the latest on CDC mask guidance, Missouri medicaid expansion and the Kansas City area’s restaurant scene.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 13, 2021, including a bill to allow the Jackson County prosecutor to free Kevin Strickland, gas prices in Kansas City, a racial slur allegedly used by a Harrisonville teacher and Messenger Coffee Cafes coming to the Kansas City Plaza.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, including the latest on the Kevin Strickland wrongful conviction, a life sentence for a man convicted in a Kansas City Kansas murder, Missouri to halt additional unemployment benefits and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 110, 2021, including Kevin Strickland being declared innocent after 40 years in prison, the firing of Olathe coach Pete Flood, the death of a man in Kansas City jail and Jackson County stepping up vaccinations in East Kansas City.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 10, 2021, including a ban on requiring COVID-19 vaccinations in Kansas, a new police chief in KCK, a fatal shooting at a KC apartment complex and a new Rally House location in the Legends Outlets.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, May 7, 2021, including gun violence in Kansas City, medical mariajuana program passed by the Kansas legislature, Evergy doubles its earnings and the latest coronavirus news.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 6, 2021, including the departure of Cerner CEO Brent Shafer, a new mascot for Shawnee Mission North High School, a coach placed on leave over allegations of inappropriate behavior at Lee’s Summit North High School and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, including the death in prison of F Glenn Miller Jr., white supremacist who in 2014 killed three people at Jewish sites in Overland Park, a domestic violence bill in the Missouri legislature, a whistle blower complaint against Mike Pompeo and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, including the latest from the Kansas legislature, the death of Kansas City restaurateur Mike Donegan, difficulty filling restaurant jobs as we reopen and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, May 3, 2021, including a double-homicide suspect killed by police, Kansas' Senate president condemns a GOP lawmaker, COVID-19 case updates and an NFL draft recap for Kansas State players.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 30, 2021, including an update on the police shooting of Connor Lamb, Kansas City rents are skyrocketing according to a national web site, a warning about COVID spread among students at Shawnee Mission South High School and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 29, 2021, including a recommended change to parking enforcement in Kansas City, The Kansas City star receives awards from McClatchy, a woman is charged with pulling a gun in a drop off line outside a school and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, including an update on Trey Songz after his Arrowhead Stadium arrest and the latest COVID-19 numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 26, 2021, including updated COVID-19 case numbers, Missouri resuming the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the reopening of Mainstreet Theater in downtown KC and Sam's Club launches a sale of "Kansas City-style" burnt ends nationwide.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 23, 2021, including Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoing a bill to ban transgender students from participating in sports, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s no vote on a bill to curb anti-Asian hate crimes, the Supreme Court overturning a $1.3 billion penalty against payday loan tycoon Scott Tucker and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 22, 2021, including the expulsion of a Missouri state representative, a new airline coming to KCI, the latest COVID-19 numbers and more on a Johnson County wrong-way crash.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, including the Derek Chauvin verdict and KC activists’ reactions, the latest COVID-19 numbers, the sale of Kansas City Southern and a local-company makes its way to space.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, including Mizzou restructures campus social justice centers, Mayor Quinton Lucas gets married, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall endorses former Gov. Jeff Colyer in the 2022 gubernatorial race and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 19, 2021, including sentencing in Kylr Yust’s murder trial, the latest COVID-19 numbers, the founder of Street Medicine KC dies unexpectedly and faith leaders meet with police officials to discuss protester safety.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 16, 2021, including the verdict in Kylr Yust’s murder trial, the a Missouri lawmaker’s blocked resignation, the latest COVID-19 numbers and an expanding local restaurant.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 15, 2021, including the latest on the Kylr Yust murder trial, a deadly crash in Johnson County, an update on plans for a giant hog farm in Missouri and the latest coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, including the Johnson & Johnson vaccine news in Kansas and Missouri, the latest COVID-19 numbers in the KC metro, the naming of a boulevard after Martin Luther King Jr., and the latest on the Kylr Yust murder trial.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, including Britt Reid getting charged with DWI, a fatal crash in Johnson County that killed one child and injured three others, the latest in the Kylr Yust murder trial and Monday’s coronavirus numbers for the KC metro.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 12, 2021, including Kansas Senate majority leader ousted, updated COVID-19 case numbers, a police standoff and the upcoming reopening of the Starlight Theatre with "Godspell."
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 9, 2021, including a plan to help homeless people in Kansas City, new apartments coming to downtown KC, a Kansas republican in trouble, and a Kansas Jayhawks basketball player transfers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 8, 2021, including the latest on Missouri and Kansas Medicaid, an update on the Kylr Yust murder trial, coronvirus and upcoming film festivals.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, including an update on Missouri coronavirus vaccinations, another incident under investigation at Pembroke Hill School and an update on the case of missing woman Mengqi Ji.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, including the possible clearing of tent city homeless camps at City Hall and in Westport, the retirement of Guadalupe Centers CEO Cris Medina, a republican challenger for U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids in 2022 and a new AD at KU.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, April 5, 2021, including updated COVID-19 numbers for the KC metro, the first Kansas case of a variant strain, a fatal wrong-way crash on I-35 and KU basketball offers a Creighton transfer a scholarship.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, April 2, 2021, including the end of the statewide mask mandate in Kansas, a homicide investigation in Kansas City and the retirement of Roy Williams, who built a Hall of Fame coaching career at Kansas and North Carolina.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, April 1, 2021, including Kansas City crime news and a felony murder charge, updates on coronavirus cases and COVID deaths, and Kansas City Royals injury news.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, including an update on Missouri medicaid expansion efforts, the latest COVID-19 numbers and restaurant news.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, including the Kansas House considers tax cuts, a white supremacist asks the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence and a Plaza restaurant is reopening in midtown after closing because of COVID.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 29, 2021, including Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop facing felony and misdemeanor charges, a Stop Asian Hate rally in Overland Park, an injured police officer out of the hospital, and a repeat national champion in men's college basketball.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 26, 2021, including Missouri politics and medicaid expansion, a new mask mandate to fight covid, a former Johnson County man found dead with explosives in Chicago, and the Kansas City Chiefs sign a wide receiver.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 25, 2021, including an update on KCPD protest policy, vaccine incentives at local businesses, and an update on Kansas schools.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, including an update on the investigation into Agape Boarding School, the latest on coronavirus and vaccine data, and a development in a local school cyberattack.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, including what Missouri is doing with the money left over from the first relief fund, the defrocking of a Kansas City area priest by the vatican and new entrant into the race for Missouri Governor.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 22, 2021, including the death of civil rights legend Alvin Sykes, updated KC COVID-19 numbers, the $29 billion sale of Kansas City Southern to Canadian Pacific, and a severance agreement between a former police officer and the city of Overland Park raises eyebrows.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 19, 2021, including covid vaccinations and coronavirus stats, calls for the Kansas City police chief to resign, and an update on the Royals.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 18, 2021, including an update on the Kansas state senate majority leader's arrest, new COVID cases and coronavirus deaths, a fatal crash and an update on the Missouri Tigers vs Oklahoma Sooners in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament in Indianapolis.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, including the latest on the arrest of a Kansas GOP leader, the collapse of a historic building in the 18th & Vine Jazz District, a Boulevardia update and the only St. Patrick's Day parade in the area.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, including Kansas politics and schools, covid cases and coronavirus deaths in Kansas City, crime news, and Kansas City Chiefs sign a new offensive lineman.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 15, 2021, including a police officer charged with assault, COVID-19 updates and a new Asian restaurant comes to Westport.
The top headlines from the Kansas City Star on Friday, March 12, 2021, including an update on COVID rules in Missouri and a mass coronavirus vaccination site at Arrowhead Stadium, problems at Boulevard Brewing Co., and a new Kansas City Royals SportsBeat podcast.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 11, 2021, including latest news for KU Athletics after Les Miles scandal, update on vaccine availability in Wyandotte County and local coronavirus numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, including covid vaccination issues in Kansas, more on Republican Senator Roy Blunt's retirement, additional coronavirus cases in the metro area, and two Kansas Jayhawks will miss the Big 12 men's college basketball tournament.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, including Missouri Republican Senator Roy Blunt announcing he won't seek reelection, the newest information on coronavirus cases and COVID deaths, crime in Wyandotte County Kansas, and safety information for the Big 12 men's and women's college basketball tournaments.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 8, 2021, including updated KC Metro COVID-19 numbers, Kansas football coach Les Miles on administrative leave, a fire at First Baptist Church of Mission and the SEC men's basketball tournament bracket is set.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, March 5, 2021, including a Chiefs' stadium name change, breaking news on Kansas football coach Les Miles, an update on COVID-19 and how Kansas City plans to help some residents with rent.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, March 4, 2021, including the latest on threats made against Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, coronavirus news and the closing of a popular downtown theater.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, including an update on a 2020 fatal police shooting, Waddell & Reed news — and more stories.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, including homicides and murders in Kansas City, the demolition of a historic building, Missouri and Kansas governors unhappy with the coronavirus stimulus package and the Kansas City Royals sign Hunter Dozier to a contract extension.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, March 1, 2021, including a Missouri Highway Patrol investigation into Agape Boarding School, a judge's ruling on the future of a young man with severe autism, updated COVID-19 numbers for the KC metro and a new hotel restaurant finally opens downtown.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 26, 2021, including the latest COVID-19 and vaccine news, an update on Avenues Bistro and another level of prestige for Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes.
The top headlines from the Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 25, 2021, including crime and police news about street racing, covid-19 vaccinations, racial equity and the University of Missouri Tigers men's college basketball program.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, including the latest developments in the federal case against an Olathe Proud Boy charged with conspiracy in the Capitol riot, a bill in Kansas that could bar transgender girls and women from participating in women’s sports in schools and colleges, a recent closure of a popular Brookside restaurant and a information about a new scholarship in memory of former Star reporter Terez Paylor.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, including US coronavirus deaths surpassing 500,000, federal agents arresting another Proud Boy for his role in the Capitol riot, a hunger strike outside the Kansas Department of Labor, and the Kansas Jayhawks vs Texas Longhorns college basketball game.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, including more arrests from the U.S. Capitol riot, a coronavirus case update for the KC metro region, Missouri State Representative Patricia Derges hires a new lawyer and President Joe Biden visits Kansas' Bob Dole ahead of Dole’s cancer treatment.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 19, 2021, including updates on coronavirus in the KC metro area and COVID in Johnson County, the death of a well known restaurant owner, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley's involvement in the insurrection at the US Capitol building, and former Kansas Senator Bob Dole's cancer diagnosis.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Day of Week, Month Date, Year, including a Proud Boy charged in the US Capitol insurrection, coronavirus cases and COVID deaths, crime news and Kansas politics.
Listen to The Star's daily briefing for Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, on the latest weather news, updates on the 5-year-old injured in a crash with former Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid and changes to police protest policy.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Friday, February 12, 2021, including the arrest of three Proud Boys in the attack on the Capitol, volunteering during the cold weather, coronavirus and COVID updates, and a new frozen custard restaurant coming.
The top headlines from the Kansas City Star on Thursday, February 11, 2021, including new COVID cases and coronavirus deaths, a reform bill in the Missouri state legislature, murder charges, and the Kansas Jayhawks-Iowa State Cyclones Big 12 conference basketball games.
The latest headlines from The Kansas City Star for Wednesday, February, 10, 2021, including police seizing Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid’s cellphone as part of an investigation of the crash that critically injured a young girl, the latest news on COVID-19 vaccinations, and Tiffany & Co. reopening on the Country Club Plaza.
The latest headlines from The Kansas City Star for Tuesday, February 9, 2021, including more about the accident involving Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid that injured two children, including a 5-year-old girl who sustained a brain injury; the latest metro COVID-19 numbers; and the closing of The New Dime Store, a Brookside staple.
The latest headline from The Kansas City Star for February 8, 2021, including from the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the latest metro COVID-19 numbers.
The latest headlines from The Kansas City Star for Friday, February 5, 2021, including the latest on the Kansas City Chiefs and the Super Bowl matchup versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Kansas City-area COVID-19 vaccinations and cases, and plans for the return of the Broadway series in Kansas City.
The latest headlines from The Kansas City Star for February, 4, 2021, incuding COVID-19 vaccinations among Blacks, the latest COVID-19 numbers in the KC metro, construction plans for the Buck O'Neil Bridge in Kansas City, and Missouri basketball defeating the Kentucky Wildcats.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Wednesday, February 3, 2021, including a Plaza restaurant and bar suing Kansas City over COVID-19 restrictions, the latest metro COVID-19 numbers, updated vaccination news, and a bounceback win for the Kansas Jayhawks basketball team over Kansas State.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Tuesday, February 2, 2021, including the latest on COVID-19 vaccination availability in the Kansas City area, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly proposing to pay for expansion of Medicaid with revenue from the sale and taxation of medical marijuana, and updates on the Chiefs as they prepare to play Tampa Bay in the Super Bowl.
The latest Kansas City Star headlines, including COVID-19 updates for the KC metro, an Ottawa University cheer coach's resignation, Bartle Hall opening as a warming shelter and a big comeback win for the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team.
The latest Kansas City Star headlines, including updates on a Kansas abortion amendment passing the state Senate, COVID-19 cases and deaths in the metro, Boulevard Brewing Company leadership changes and new area restaurants.
The top headlines for The Kansas City Star, including Boulevard Brewing Company’s top executive stepping down, COVID-19 numbers in the KC metro, the next job for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and what colors the Chiefs will wear in the Super Bowl versus Tampa Bay.
The latest headlines from the Kansas City Star for Wednesday, January 27, 2021, including updates on the COVID-19 vaccine in the KC metro area, the latest COVID-19 numbers, and the odds for the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Kansas City Star's headlines for January 26, 2021, including more information about the Chiefs and if there could be a Super Bowl parade if they defeat Tampa Bay, daily metro COVID-19 numbers, details about COVID-19 relief in Kansas City, and local restaurant news.
The latest headlines from The Kansas City Star, including the Chiefs defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship Game and heading back to the Super Bowl to face Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Bucs, the latest metro COVID-19 numbers, and Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri and his approval rating after the Capitol insurrection.
Updates from The Kansas City Star on Friday, January 22, 2021, including the latest on the COVID-19 vaccine in the Kansas City area, local COVID-19 numbers, and the injury report for Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes ahead of the AFC Championship Game.
The latest from The Kansas City Star on Thursday, January, 21, 2021, including the inaguration of President Joe Biden, an update on the injury of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes before the AFC Championship Game vs. Buffalo, and Kansas City COVID-19 numbers and news.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for January 20, 2021, including the latest KC news from the Capitol riots, local COVID-19 numbers, the possibility of a Chiefs Super Bowl parade this year, and a new upscale Waldo sports bar.
The top headlines from the Kansas City Star for January 19, 2021, include the latest on the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for January 15, 2021, including more snow in the Kansas City area, the COVID-19 vaccine for area teachers, inauguration precautions at the Kansas state capitol, and Chiefs vs. Browns in the NFL playoffs.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star, including the latest on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the suspension of political donations to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, local COVID-19 numbers and updates before the Kansas City Chiefs' playoff game vs. Cleveland.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Wednesday, January 13, 2021, including the latest on the COVID-19 vaccine in Kansas, Missouri politics and Sen. Josh Hawley, and Kansas basketball vs. Oklahoma State.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Tuesday, January 12th, 2021, including the latest on donor backlash for Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall after the D.C. riots; the Missouri and Kansas state capitols on alert; and area COVID-19 numbers.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Monday, January 11, 2021, including further condemnation of Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, the controversial opening of a new duck boat tours company, new funding to extend KC's streetcar south along Main Street and COVID-19 issues with Mizzou basketball.
The top headlines from the The Kansas City Star for Friday, January 8, 2021, including the latest on Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and the D.C. riot, a record daily number of COVID-19 cases in the KC metro, and Kansas City Restaurant Week.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Thursday, January 7th, 2021, including the latest on the D.C. riot by Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol, the Kansas City Fire Department's plan to deal with discrimination, and the closing of a Kansas City area Macy's store.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star for Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, including a record day in Kansas City COVID-19 deaths, Kansas political news in the effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory, and Stroud's pan-fried chicken opening another express location, this one in Mission.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on January 5, 2021, including the latest on Sen. Josh Hawley's plan to challenge President-elect Joe Biden's victory, the latest KC metro COVID-19 numbers, Johnson County development plans, and Tiffany & Co. leaving the Plaza.
The top headlines from The Kansas City Star on Monday, January 4, 2021, including a look back at the deadliest year in Kansas City, updated COVID-19 numbers for the metro, and a historic Kansas basketball loss at Allen Fieldhouse.
Today is Wednesday, December 30th. I’m Mary Hildebrandt, and here’s your local news from The Kansas City Star. The Kansas City area will see cloudy skies and highs in the mid-30s today. In top news: The T-Mobile Center, which has been shuttered since the abrupt cancellation of the Big 12 basketball tournament in March, will open its doors in late January with Disney on Ice performances.
Today is Tuesday, December 29th. I’m Kristie McIntyre and here’s your local news from The Kansas City Star. A winter weather advisory will go into effect this morning in the Kansas City metro and last most of the day. The area will see a wintry mix in the morning with rain later and highs in the low-40s.
Today is Monday, December 28th. I’m Kristie McIntyre, and here’s your local news from The Kansas City Star. The Kansas City area will see partly cloudy skies today and highs in the mid-30s. In top news: For decades, boarding schools have made their way to Missouri, where a nearly 40-year-old law allows faith-based residential facilities to operate without a license, any scrutiny, or interference from the state.