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April 17, 2020

• Kansas’ COVID-19 related death total reaches 84; more new cases reported Friday
• Stay-at-home order protests planned for Kansas City, Topeka, Jefferson City next week
• Wyandotte County reports four new COVID-19 related deaths, 18 additional cases
• Police say man slain in south Kansas City reported shooting near elementary school
• Johnson County reports one new COVID-19 related death, 12 new cases
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center in KC accounts for dozens of city’s coronavirus cases
• Kansas City metro surpasses 1,500 coronavirus cases as death toll rises to 80
• Fourth resident of Harrisonville nursing home dies from coronavirus
• Mellinger Minutes For Your Ears: Could Kansas City really land an NBA team eventually?
• Barricades placed at Swope and Blue Valley parks in effort to limit large gatherings
• Missouri coronavirus cases exceed 5,280. 165 have died of COVID-19
• COVID-19 news: Extended stay-at-home orders meet resistance as more deaths reported
• Did this Johnson County commissioner go on a sightseeing trip during stay-at-home order?
• Kansas switches its medical provider for prisons after years of sharp criticism
• Roy Blunt has the power, expertise to help homeless Missouri students during pandemic
• A snake with toes? No, creature squirming in Alabama creek is rarely seen ‘congo eel’
• Kansas City district accused of discrimination in second attendance fraud lawsuit
• Letters: Readers discuss Trump’s mistreatment, rights versus privileges and our health
• Grandview police find 21-year-old woman inside vehicle, dead from gunshot wounds
• Cold weather moves out of Kansas City area Friday before weekend warms up
• More than a decade after sexual harassment claims, JCCC could rename Carlsen Center
• Parts of the Kansas City metro could see snow early Friday morning, forecast says
• Chiefs’ lineman/doctor Laurent Duvernay-Tardif on the fight against COVID-19
• Travis Kelce says Chiefs will be ready to take every opponent’s best shot next season
• Chiefs fans send best wishes to Broncos’ Von Miller after COVID-19 diagnosis
• NFL answers Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes’ request for angle of best throw he’s seen
• Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes dethrones Tom Brady as NFL’s top-selling player
• SportsBeat KC: Remember projecting Mahomes’ NFL greatness before the ’17 draft? Uh ...
• Mizzou football adds Rutgers grad transfer, loses running back to transfer portal
• After difficult season, Mizzou women’s basketball retooling with new talent
• From diapers to Nutcracker, Drinkwitz discusses how Mizzou coaching search unfolded
• Mizzou’s Sterk, Drinkwitz, Martin and other coaches take temporary salary reductions
• Two analysts’ favorite KU hoops play: ‘Aesthetically pleasing’ — with Istanbul roots
• Former KU forward Dwight Coleby remains on lockdown in Italy: ‘I just want to leave’
• JoCo entertainment complex with four venues will not reopen after stay-in-place order
• New bubble tea concept in the Plaza planning to open once stay-at-home order is lifted
• Rolling Stones, Gaga — and a KU doctor — to star in coronavirus TV special Saturday
• ‘Really bad idea’: Doctors warn of health danger from Kansas City COVID-19 protests
• Waddell & Reed plan narrowly passes KC Council — even with controversial garage
• For first time, wind energy overtakes coal in Kansas — among only two states to do so
• ‘Don’t want to die in here’: Kansas prison inmates months from release fear COVID-19