An analysis by The Star finds that Mission is the Kansas City area’s king of traffic enforcement, issuing more citations in a year than many suburbs three times its size. Officials say the reason for the high number is safety, not a policy to generate revenue.
The goal of Turn the Page KC is to get all children reading at grade level by the third grade. Ralph Smith, the managing director of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and a senior vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, hopes the local campaign will find things that work and inspire greater effort on a national level.
Casey Brezik thought he was lunging at Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon when he stabbed Al Dimmitt, a dean at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, in the neck and wounded another administrator in 2010. On Monday, a Jackson County judge sentenced Brezik to 12 years in prison.
John Hogue, 51, was one of three swimmers pulled under Sunday by dangerous rip currents in the Gulf of Mexico off the Fort Morgan Peninsula near Gulf Shores, Ala. The body of a man from Bossier, La., was also recovered. A Kentucky man is still missing.
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders has extended by a month the deadline for all taxpayers to appeal assessment notices sent out in May, not just those who got notices saying their properties were being re-evaluated. Those 18,000-plus corrected notices will go out next week.
The incident happened outside a convenience store.
Dr. Marc B. Hahn will begin work as CEO on July 1.
Please confirm numbers with state lottery officials.
Appeals for death row inmate Keith D. Nelson, who kidnapped and killed 10-year-old Pamela Butler in 1999, have been delayed because of the sequester-driven budget fight. Pamela's mother, Cherri West, blames federal lawmakers.
The Kansas Department of Corrections is facing at least $5.6 million in cuts that could mean fewer parole officers and prison guards as well the weakening of a new program aimed at keeping people out of prison to save money.
Boy Scouts troops in the Kansas City have yet to see a backlash locally from their new policy to include Scouts who are gay, but most don’t renew their agreements with sponsors until the end of the year.
Concerned about reassessment notices that are likely to lead to higher property tax bills, Missouri senior citizens find their options limited when it comes to state programs that provide tax relief for people over 65. Only those with low incomes qualify.
At Sunday's Festival of Fountains at Union Station, Kansas Citians took a day to appreciate the city's fountains on Sunday and to contemplate the millions of dollars needed to keep the decorative waters flowing.
Emmanuel “Manny” Palmer, a 16-year-old who just finished his sophomore year at Raytown High School, died in a swimming accident over the weekend. The 16-year-old who’d just wrapped up his sophomore year at Raytown High School failed to cross a cove with friends at private Lakewood Lakes on Saturday.
The Rev. Paisius Altschul of the St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Parish and Reconciliation Services was honored Sunday at an event to raise money for Reconciliation Services and to honor its work along Troost Avenue.
Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars over two decades to reduce the potential damage from another massive flood like the one that ravaged Missouri and eight other states in 1993. The people behind that spending say it has worked — we’re much safer today, they say, than in 1993. But should another monumental rainy season repeat the performance of two decades ago, the region could once again find itself drowning.
A year ago this month, Kansas Citians read about a severely malnourished 10-year-old girl rescued from a locked closet. Readers then learned that the state agency charged with protecting Missouri’s children was refusing to release records in the girl’s case and others. The Star battled for months for the documents. The state finally handed over the file, revealing troubling lapses and questionable judgments that set the stage for tragedy.
Part science, part teamwork, part fun — teams fought to find the right formula in dragon boat races Saturday near the Country Club Plaza. The races were part of the ninth annual Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival sponsored by the Society for Friendship With China and the Kansas City-Xi’an Sister City Committee.
Leavenworth’s Sean Malto rides into town with Street League Skateboarding as Kansas City serves as the third stop on the league’s world tour. Malto, currently in second place, craves a good outing to remain in contention for the league’s $2 million prize.
It was a good year for gun rights supporters and abortion opponents, a bad year for developmentally disabled people and colleges and universities.
Ziyad Abid, a Saudi national who had been attending the University of Central Missouri, is charged with paying a former bouncer to kill a Warrensburg bar owner. Johnson County, Mo., Circuit Judge Michael Wagner has acknowledged he may be violating the Missouri Constitution, but he said in court that he is bothered that the government of Saudi Arabia provided Abid’s bond money — $2 million in cash.
His objections to a commercial featuring a boy’s rejection were heard by the company.
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and other officials led a tour Thursday, showing off the building’s new plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as its new elevator shaft.
The former school is to become a residential building.
All six regents schools are proposing boosts in tuition and fees, including 4.4 percent at KU and 6.7 percent at K-State.
At the group’s first public meeting Thursday, the panel said its goal will be to recommend the best airport to serve the region now and for future generations. But already the initiative has been embroiled in a minor controversy. Two people were excluded from the meeting at Union Station.
Kansas has lowered taxes by shifting the burden from the rich to the poor. Missouri wants to do the same thing.
After scores of illnesses and a three-year battle by consumer groups, federal officials on Thursday proposed new mandatory labeling requirements for mechanically tenderized meat.
The governor Wednesday emphatically vetoed a bill that would have phased in $700 million in annual tax cuts for the state’s businesses and individuals. He called the measure “ill-conceived” and “irresponsible.” Missouri Republicans fired back, promising an override attempt in September.
As the new season opens, Schlitterbahn water park is drawing plenty of customers in swimsuits, but grander plans for the northeast corner of Interstate 435 and State Avenue in Wyandotte County ran into the buzz saw of the recession.
