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June 25, 2020

• Letters: KC readers discuss NFL protests, hippies’ culture war and fireworks fright
• Cerner committed to diversity and inclusion, then shut down a Black Lives Matter forum
• KC state rep expresses ‘major regret’ for Facebook comments deriding women, gay men
• Mayor Lucas wants to take local control of police to voters. Now, KC needs a landslide
• Missouri gives St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic license to offer abortions into 2021
• ‘We’ve got to have more testing.’ Blunt disagrees with Trump on coronavirus screening
• Mayor Lucas announces plan for KC voters to decide on seeking local control of police
• Parson announces special legislative session, likely focused on crime, COVID lawsuits
• Don’t microwave books: Here are safe ways to use the library in coronavirus pandemic
• Neighborhood association joins community groups wanting KCPD chief Rick Smith gone
• Mask mandate is needed, KC health director Rex Archer says: ‘We have to do more.’ And soon
• As COVID cases rise in Branson, so does concern that it’s not being taken seriously
• Popular Johnson County theater was set to reopen soon. Then coronavirus cases swelled
• When will Saharan dust reach Missouri and Kansas? Here’s what forecasters say
• Target adding fresh grocery items to curbside pickup nationwide. Here’s what to know
• Returning to lockdown? Almost two-thirds of Americans support the idea in new survey
• Hot, humid day expected in Kansas City after rain, storms move out of metro area
• Deep Background: Do developers need incentives for a luxury downtown KC hotel?
• Man who allegedly fired shots at two women, arriving officers not found inside home
• Tattoo artists covering up clients’ racist tattoos for free. ‘Helping to fix the past’
• Why is KC police union fighting outside investigations of officer-involved shootings?
• With lives at risk, Kansas Republican Senate candidates are still pro-choice on masks
• Chiefs’ Mathieu, Royals’ Moore, KU, Mizzou, KSU figures open up about race and sports
• Right now: Chiefs’ Mathieu, KU’s Self, Mizzou’s Martin, more talk race & sports in KC
• Kansas City metro records 269 homicides in 2020. Here are the details of each killing.
• Kansas City may require face masks in public to limit spread of coronavirus
• KC metro tops 200 new COVID-19 cases Thursday as area sees another record day
• SportsBeat KC: How will the Royals fit baseball’s new parameters? Let’s talk about it
• KU’s best defense in 51 years may have steered Jayhawks to 2020 NCAA Tournament title
• Former Kansas Jayhawks guard Frank Mason III is MVP of NBA’s G League for 2019-20
• Mizzou Athletics announces five positive COVID-19 results after testing more than 300
• Mizzou football grabs Tennessee running back for 16th commitment of 2021 class
• How are Mizzou players staying safe? It comes down to accountability and respect
• What’s it like coaching your son? Mizzou’s Luper has done it before, and he will again
• Four more KC-area restaurants close for good, a couple noting uncertainty of pandemic
• Black inmates in Kansas prisons suffer disproportionately from COVID-19, data shows
• Kansas plastic surgeon has license suspended by emergency state order