Two top parks officials have been charged with stealing nearly half a million dollars from the city since 2005. The federal indictment accuses Thomas Stritzel, 43, the city’s chief park ranger, and deputy parks commissioner Joseph Vacca, 55, with three counts of mail fraud apiece related to the alleged theft of roughly $465,000.
Kansas City resident Maynard Small thinks the city went too far in modifying Penn Valley Drive, which many drivers think of as Broadway. He worries about getting rear-ended when he slows down for a sharp turn.
Fred Logan will be chairman and Kenny Wilk will be vice chairman.
Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a measure that would double the fees charged to businesses in order to replenish an insolvent fund for disabled workers who suffer serious job-related injuries or illnesses.
The series “Beef’s Raw Edges” has been named a finalist for a national Gerald Loeb award issued by the University of California-Los Angeles Anderson School of Management. It was chosen in the award’s explanatory category. The winner will be announced in June.
Tristan R. Williams, 30, had pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in the death of Kylie D. Williams. He had told authorities the death occurred when cats in his apartment accidentally overturned the child’s bouncing chair.
Opponents of a new terminal at KCI Airport are launching an initiative petition drive to press their cause. They hope to place a measure on a city ballot saying that the city can’t build a new airport terminal without a public vote.
The computers were taken from the office of St. Ann Parish at 10113 E. Lexington Ave. on March 26 after detectives alerted parish officials that they had detected two downloads of child pornography from peer-to-peer websites by an Internet address associated with the parish office, said Jack Smith, a diocesan spokesman.
It's only about 200 miles along curvy highways and country roads from Lebanon, Mo., to Ottawa, Kan., where in a few hours, visitation services would begin for Shawn Patrick Bailey's 18-month-old daughter and estranged wife, victims of a quadruple homicide discovered last week in Ottawa.
The terrier-schnauzer mix flew to New York this week to tape the segment. “She does steal the show,” said Tori Fugate, manager of marketing and development for the Kansas City Pet Project, who accompanied Kia on the show. The show airs locally at 9 a.m. on KMBC Channel 9.
A University of Missouri journalism researcher says that social-media saturated teenagers aren't necessarily savvier consumers of news.
The child was found wandering the streets on Kansas City’s East Side.
The woman, who represented herself, is an adherent of a widely discredited theory that claims those with knowledge of the proper procedures can tap into hundreds of millions of dollars held in trust in their names by the U.S. government.
Tweets containing homophobic, racist or demeaning words are coming in larger proportions from people living in the eastern half of the United States, according to a new map that tracked hate speech on Twitter.
Tony L. Putman also punched the woman’s 93-year-old husband in the face during the incident last summer.
White House releases dozens of emails regarding the 2012 attacks in Libya.
The bill is one Senate roll call away from the November 2014 ballot. But with only two days left before the end of the legislative session, a filibuster has put its chances in doubt. If supporters of the bill — primarily construction companies and organized labor — truly want to raise the sales tax, Republican Sen. John Lamping said, they can put the question on the ballot themselves.
A simmering standoff between the Kansas House and Senate over taxes cooled Wednesday amid a compromise extending part of a controversial addition to the state’s sales tax. House negotiators offered to extend three-tenths of a penny sales tax that was approved in 2010 to help the state limp through a recession-driven dip in revenues.
Scott Roeder, who fatally shot abortion provider George Tiller in 2009, is accused of intimidating the woman who reopened his clinic.
The Missouri Senate voted 32-1 in support of a bill allowing the State Board of Education to immediately intervene in an unaccredited school district. Current law mandates that the state wait two years before taking action. Kansas City Public Schools has been unaccredited since Jan. 1, 2012.
