Kyle Flack is accused of killing an 18-month-old child and three adults last spring before police arrested him May 8 at an Emporia apartment. According to testimony Tuesday, Flack allegedly told police how one of the deaths occurred during 10 hours of questioning spread over two sessions.
With NFL free agency officially slated to begin at 3 p.m. Tuesday, here’s a running tracker of the Chiefs-related reports that have surfaced. This list will be updated as new information emerges.
The Kansas City area is a hotbed for model railroading with over three dozen “fully finished” private layouts. Perhaps that’s a product of Kansas City’s legacy as a real-life rail hub. In any case, Kansas City’s model railroaders are a collegial bunch. Operating a model railroad can require up to a dozen people, and the gatherings serve as social functions.
There was some speculation going into Monday night’s “Bachelor” finale that Juan Pablo Galavis was the most hated bachelor of all time. Let that speculation now be put to rest. He is. KC's own Nikki Ferrell had to settle only for the final rose - no marriage proposal or declaration of love. And that’s all she really wanted, she said. She just wanted to hear those three little words. Instead, he said, "I like you a lot, a lot.”
SXSW music and film stars liven up Austin
The Kansas City area is a hub for train hobbyists
Updated March 11: Kansas City Crime Stoppers' Most Wanted
Wheelchair basketball has supporters at University of Missouri-Columbia
At Haskell Indian Nations University, basketball has specific mission
Highest-paid musicians of 2013 from Billboard
25 Under 25 awards banquet
West Bottoms Warehouse Weekend: Saturday
Gala of the Royal Horses attendees
Leprechaun Lane 5K/10K
First Friday in the West Bottoms
2014 KC Gem & Mineral Show
Greater KC Int'l Auto Show
Network After Work: March 6
Sporting KC Takeoff
Beads, Beans & Beer
Johnson County Home & Garden Show
Hotel & Lodging Association Recognition Dinner
A developer is proposing a $78 million office tower at 46th Terrace and Pennsylvania Avenue, the first new office project for the Country Club Plaza area since a controversial plan fell through three years ago. The approximately 12-story building is being proposed by Block Real Estate Services for a 1.5-acre location where the firm had pitched a hotel project last year.
A man recently released from prison after a Missouri court overturned his conviction in a sports editor's death is seeking $100 million in damages in a federal civil rights lawsuit against seven police detectives, a prosecutor turned judge and a former police chief. The 50-page suit says Columbia, Mo., police fabricated evidence against Ryan Ferguson, bullied witnesses and ignored other leads in their investigation into the 2001 killing of Kent Heitholt.
Updated March 11: This woman is wanted for sale of marijuana. If you have information about any of these fugitives, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (816-474-8477), go to KCCrimeStoppers.com, or text TIP452 plus message and send to 274637. All calls are anonymous.
The billionaire, who bought control of the third-largest wireless carrier last year, said combining with fourth-ranked T- Mobile would give him scale to compete against AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. Those operators collect most of the U.S. mobile industry’s cash flow and don’t face “real competition,” Son said in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose.
Welcome to The Kansas City Star’s annual summer camps and programs guide. This year, we partnered with The Family Conservancy to present the publication, which is included in the March 7 edition of the Star and features information from local organizations about their summer activities for children.
Google Fiber is starting its second round of “rallies” to sign up prospective customers in northern and southern Kansas City and in Raytown, Grandview and Gladstone. The process will determine which neighborhoods ultimately get the ultra-fast Internet and TV service. The company says it will complete installations by year’s end.
On the same night KU plays Texas in front of a sold-out crowd, another college basketball celebration has begun in Lawrence. Three players from Haskell Indian Nations University are lined up at midcourt to be recognized for before their final home game. Their time at Haskell has been rewarding, the players say. But the real news here is three of the players have made it to this point.
For much of the past three decades, pit bulls have been widely regarded as America's most dangerous dog — the favorite breed of thugs, drug dealers and dog-fighting rings, with a fearsome reputation for unprovoked, sometimes deadly attacks.
Kansas coach Bill Self ruled Joel Embiid out of the Big 12 Tournament this week because of a stress fracture in his back. Embiid is also unlikely to play in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.
It has taken 10 years for a concept hatched by UMKC professor Reza Derakhshani to be developed into a viable commercial product sold by a company headed by entrepreneur Toby Rush. In the last few months, EyeVerify has won awards for innovation and marketability of its password-replacement invention for smartphone cameras.
With a looming deadline for a recommendation, the KCI citizen task force still has a difficult choice to make for the airport’s future: Undertake major renovations at two existing terminals that will likely cost in excess of $700 million and won’t solve all the airport’s problems. Or build a new single terminal and solve all the problems –– but be ready to spend $800 million to $1.2 billion.
The missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course over the sea, crossed Malaysia and reached the Strait of Malacca — hundreds of miles from its last position recorded by civilian authorities, Malaysian military officials said Tuesday, citing military radar data.
Kansas City holds onto federal agencies and jobs leaving the obsolete Bannister Federal Complex in south Kansas City thanks to cooperative lobbying by government officials and civic leaders.
