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Kansas City’s ethics commission Friday declined to dismiss three allegations of ethics violations against Mayor Mark Funkhouser.
Authorities have refiled second-degree murder charges against an Independence woman in shootings that left a mother and her boyfriend dead and the mother’s young son seriously wounded. Shannon Aufai, 21, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and one count of assault.
The logo for the 2010 observance commemorating the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. features two contrasting images. The Rev. Nelson Thompson, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City, said the images served a dual purpose, reflective of the urgency to continue the decades-old struggle for equity.
Area health departments will hold more swine flu vaccination clinics next week for people considered in greatest need of protection from the H1N1 virus. Here are the times and locations:
An AmeriCorps volunteer is having an impact on the Kansas City area through his work in expanding the Kansas City Beehive. The Beehive is a Web site that provides information and resources on many things, including money, health, jobs, school and even housing. The Beehive can be found at www.kcbeehive.org.
Harvesters-The Community Food Network. now has 11,359 pounds of venison to give agencies that feed the hungry. The meat is courtesy of sharpshooters at Shawnee Mission Park who this month killed 313 deer.
When Bishop Robert W. Finn was watching the rainy and snowy weather earlier this week, he was thinking of the outdoor procession that was to take place Friday during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Kansas City. Therefore, he did what anyone in his position would do: pray for good weather.
The 25-year-old woman, nearly 9 months pregnant and shot in the head, had no chance. But an ambulance crew rushed her lifeless body to the hospital Friday evening, hoping to save the unborn child.
Practically all cell phones have cameras nowadays. And a local homicide suspect probably wishes they didn’t. This week, Kansas City police arrested two men suspected in a pair of homicides. Authorities downloaded a photo from one man’s cell phone. It showed his buddy holding a gun and standing in the same house where one of the homicides happened, police allege. Investigators later recovered a handgun at the man’s home, and it looks like the one in the picture, they say in court records.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced three people who concocted a bizarre scheme to stage a sexual assault in Waldo to boost the payoff on a civil lawsuit.
After talking this week with one of the sisters in the Mohler child sex case, investigators returned Friday to the family patriarch’s Independence home and carted off more computers and videotapes. “There is a belief that some of these assaults are on those tapes,” said Col. Ben Kenney of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
KENNETT, Mo. | A black school teacher who claimed white police officers abused and assaulted her agreed Friday to a plea deal. The deal allows Heather Ellis, 24, to avoid a felony conviction for her part in a January 2007 scuffle that began over cutting in line at a Wal-Mart.
Friday’s winning numbers: •Missouri Pick 3
TOPEKA | One Appleby conviction reversed The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld Benjamin Appleby’s murder conviction and “hard 50” prison sentence for killing Leawood teen Ali Kemp in 2002.
Who: Anthony “Tony” Stanislaus McGrath When and how he died: Oct. 13 of respiratory failure due to pneumonia.
Former University of Kansas chancellor Robert Hemenway’s name will be given to KU’s sciences innovation center in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas Board of Regents has approved naming the three-year-old center for Hemenway, who served from 1995 until this past summer.
The Kansas City area has violated the federal Clean Air Act, exceeding the ozone standard eight times over the summer, Missouri officials said Thursday. That makes Kansas City a habitual violator because it has exceeded the federal standard for three consecutive summers.
If you were going to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert Dec. 1, hold on to those tickets. The Sprint Center show has been rescheduled to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27.
For more years than he can remember, Bill Grigsby was the master of ceremonies at the Mayor’s Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at Crown Center. Good ol’ Grigs. Smiling. Jovial. Kansas City’s biggest booster, and entirely noncontroversial.
TOPEKA | The cost of room and board at Kansas’ public universities is inching up, even as tuition increases and state funding for higher education drops. The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday tentatively approved increases in the cost of campus housing and cafeterias. A final vote is expected next month.
