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June 3, 2020

• Tyrann Mathieu, other Chiefs players blast Saints’ Drew Brees over flag comment
• 129 new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday in Kansas City metro; total surpasses 4,550
• Deep Background podcast: Plaza protests and the race for Kansas’ U.S. Senate seat
• Court rules on appeal by KC payday loan tycoon who wanted criminal conviction tossed
• Officer stabbed Wednesday near 9th and Grand in downtown Kansas City, police say
• Danny Duffy reveals his unusual role in Royals’ 2015 playoff comeback against Astros
• Royals fans share remembrances of Yordano Ventura on what would be his birthday
• Man shot and killed after protest Sunday in Kansas City was family man, photographer
• Blunt asks AG Barr to revive post-Ferguson strategies to combat police brutality
• Parson to deploy Missouri National Guard troops to Washington at Trump’s request
• Sixth night of protest begins at KC Plaza ahead of ‘Unity March’, storms likely tonight
• Here’s how tear gas used at protests could spread coronavirus, experts say
• Colleges could look a lot different when they reopen. Here are possible changes
• University of Missouri suspends Lee’s Summit teen for video mocking George Floyd
• Dreams of a return of horse racing in Kansas City vanishing: Woodlands is up for sale
• Heat, severe thunderstorms likely to develop over Kansas City metro
• Tuesday protest in Kansas City: Police and crowd mostly calm, with 25 arrests
• Here is when major sports leagues expect to start play and the planned formats
• KCPD chief defends officers who pepper-sprayed and arrested protester in viral video
• Outdoors report: Water temperatures make noticeable jump across Missouri, Kansas lakes
• ‘If that ain’t a symbol of 2020.’ Storm rips tallest and largest free-flying US flag
• Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Missouri Medicaid expansion ballot measure
• Voters shake up Independence politics, reject second City Council incumbent in 2020
• He videotaped police officers’ excessive force. So why is Kansas City prosecuting him?
• Amid racial protests, Kansas AG wants to revive Kobach’s racist voter registration law
• Clergy in Kansas City go to City Hall demanding body cameras and a police review board
• Country Club Plaza closed for 5th day after another night of protests in Kansas City
• Selected 2020 local election results for Kansas City region
• Dog walker finds man fatally shot in grass early Wednesday in Kansas City
• Jackson County prosecutor is reviewing KCPD officers’ use of pepper spray on protester
• Man found on Kansas City sidewalk with gunshot wound dies overnight
• KC man cited after filming ‘reckless’ arrest. Council wants to protect such witnesses
• Kansas City entertainment reopens from COVID-19: First Friday, Science City and more
• We must work for peace and justice, but violence at Plaza protests demeans MLK’s dream
• Letters: KC readers discuss the passion of the protesters — and their destruction
• 75 Kansas City area faith leaders to demand at City Hall an end of police brutality
• Amid protests, Kansas City mayor asks for federal money to get police body cameras
• ‘The big two.’ NFL pundits expecting Chiefs and Ravens to battle for supremacy in AFC
• Former KU star Joel Embiid lands on Forbes’ list of richest athletes in the world
• Lee’s Summit elects its first black school board member, and she leads the pack
• Civil rights groups demand local control of Kansas City police, ask chief to resign
• KC police say at least 4 arrests, no spray or gas used at protest as sun sets Tuesday
• ‘Eye-opening revelation’: How COVID-19 spread to 200 workers at Kansas City business
• KC police claim no rubber bullets. But man who says he was hit by one may lose eye
• ‘We’re all humans’: Hundreds march through KC streets Tuesday as protest continues
• ‘Major spike’: 200 employees at Kansas City firm have COVID-19, health officials say
• Kansas City voters approve $315M sales tax increase to fund Fire Department needs
• SportsBeat KC: Training camp in St. Joe is a no-go for Chiefs. Here’s what that means
• Mizzou football players organize walk and are joined by Columbia PD, administrators
• ‘Racism is a disease’: How Mizzou’s Cuonzo Martin is standing up to social injustice
• AMC Theatres has ‘substantial doubt’ about its future viability because of the pandemic
• KU recruiting target is Nevada’s prep athlete of the year, plus lots more Jayhawks news
• What two KU football players are doing while caught in NFL limbo
• Could this major-league draft tip the scales overwhelmingly in favor of analytics?
• KC Roos athletic boss Brandon Martin looks for strategies to end ‘Goliath of racism’