Former Honeywell workers are experiencing major health problems. This week's Pitch feature, "Kansas City's Nuclear Fallout," talks to the people suffering from the after effects of exposure... [...]
Jackson County prosecutors charged Nathaniel Brown today with second-degree murder in the September 13 shooting death of 20-year-old Taylor Holman.
At about 5:30 p.m. on that September d... [...]
Macramae brings many horrible memories flooding back to me. Not this bad (allegedly), but bad nonetheless. This week, the Crap Archivist relived his own tortured memories while getting tang... [...]
A federal judge sentenced the three pea brains sexual assault scammers who cooked up -- and botched -- a scheme to defraud a local car dealership.Julie Bernet, 39, of Bacyrus, Kansas, and ... [...]
Picture the young artist, dreaming of becoming an editorial cartoonist. He's working hard: drawing for a weekly newspaper in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue, placing his pieces in a few small-... [...]
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the man convicted of murdering Ali Kemp, a 19-year-old University of Kansas student from Johnson County, in a public swimming pool pump room in 20... [...]
As we've thoroughly documented here, last night Kansas City's favorite performers gathered to declaim from Sarah Palin's new book, Amelia Bedelia Runs For Office. This time, Amelia's literal...' [...]
It looks like the K is all but announced as the site of the 2012 All-Star Game. The MLB Owner's meeting just wrapped in Chicago, and Commissioner Bud Selig hinted that Kauffman Stad... [...]
If you met mixed martial arts fighter Rudy Bears in a darkened alley, you'd probably ask for directions. Heck, he'd probably offer them.Outside the ring, the 31-year-old Independence man ... [...]
University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is on the hot seat. KU's meter maids hate him. Former players hate him. The parents of former players hate him. Even some current players d... [...]
The big news this week is that photogenic real American Sarah Palin has kinda/sorta written a Young Adult book about why everybody should quit their jobs. But books are hard and take time ... [...]
Fox 4 reports that the mother of the alleged sexual abuse victims and a former Mormon bishop in Independence knew about the allegations of sexual abuse inside the Mohler family. Ex-b... [...]
1. Pretend it's First Friday, not the third. The Charlotte Street Foundation is sponsoring a few openings tonight, including Mythmakers at the Paragraph.2. Laugh spontaneously. The Holy C...' [...]
Neither Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II nor Jacob Turk, the Republican challenger who'd like to replace Cleaver in 2010, has taken part in the Department of Energy's Former Beryllium Worker... [...]
Fifth District Councilman Terry Riley led the resistance against Mayor Mark Funkhouser's takedown of City Manager Wayne Cauthen at City Hall on Thursday.Before the chaotic, tedious legisl... [...]
Lafayette County prosecutors released additional sordid details of alleged sexual abuse perpetrated by Burrel Mohler, Sr., Burrel Mohler, Jr. and Jared Mohler on several young members of... [...]
Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Cristian Ruiz late Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of Jose Luis Salazar-Moreno.WyCo prosecutors allege that Ruiz, 22, shot and killed ... [...]
Kansas City police issued three photos and a video today in hopes of identifying three "persons of interest" in the death of 20-year-old Maurice West. West was shot and killed near 116th a... [...]
Justin R. Bennett, 23, has been found guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the stabbing death of his Keona N. Johnson in September of last year. At the time of the ki... [...]
Isaiah Betts, a 17-year-old from KCK, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a homeless man on April 1, according to KHSB Channel 41.Betts and 47-year-old Dwayne ... [...]
Saw this first on KMBC Channel 9. Mayor Mark Funkhouser has suspended City Manager Wayne Cauthen. Prime Buzz has Funkhouser's letter to council members about Cauthen's suspension. Here's ... [...]
Don't get hungry -- the cupcakes in the picture aren't edible. They're dissolving bath fizzies by Dirty Laundry, just one of the many local vendors showing off the goods tonight at the Ric ...' [...]
TO: Highwoods Properties, Plaza Management TeamFROM: Mr. Green and Ms. White, co-presidents, Plaza Light Bulb Installers UnitedRE: Plaza Lighting CeremonyDear Country Club Plaza Overseers: ... [...]
This is what happens during a disappointing, losing season. The Kansas Jayhawks have lost five games in a row and with Saturday's game against No. 2 Texas in Austin looming, looks like los... [...]
Kate Bornstein leans back in her chair, legs spread, teal-painted fingernails and tattooed hand partially covering the girly design on her baby-tee top. A black and white wrist cuff with ana... [...]
This week's Martin column describes neighborhood groups' frustration with Go Invest Wisely, a Utah company that gobbled up dozens of foreclosed homes in Kansas City.Last month, Legal Aid of...' [...]
A Johnson County field coordinator for Todd Tiahrt's U.S. Senate campaign resigned yesterday after KMBC Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney confronted him about allegations of aggravated sodomy a... [...]
As an interviewer and outreach manager with the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program, Walter Smith always starts out with one question: "Do you think your health was affecte..." [...]
God bless Kansas state Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook of Shawnee, who is leading the effort to secure a Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment. Cook, who like others on the far right is afraid of a ... [...]
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Kn... [...]
Update (November 18): Now with pics!***After an early morning raid yesterday, Douglas County Sheriff's Office investigators took two men into custody on charges related to cockfighting a... [...]
Fans of Donnie Darko will remember when members of the fire department sift through motivational speaker Jim Cunningham's burnt-up house and find what's described as a "kiddie porn dungeon..." [...]
A Missouri appeals court recently took up an interesting question: Does the use of a Whizzinator constitute forgery?Robert Smothers of Moberly, Missouri, was subject to drug testing as a co... [...]
Tom Wiggans announced yesterday that he's the Democrat running for Kansas governor. Wiggans was ready. He had a folksy Web site and a YouTube video and encouraged supporters to sign up for h... [...]
Kansas City police released the victim of Monday's homicide in the 3700 block of Roberts.Police say 27-year-old Lisa M. McGuire of Versailles was the woman they found dead outside of an ap... [...]
Kansas City, Missouri, does not lack for sad-looking houses. So when the city orders one of them to be demolished, you can be certain it's a real dump.Go Invest Wisely, the subject of this ... [...]
I'll bet my Specialized that, if you ride a bike in this town, you know the name Sarah Gibson.
In fact, many have probably shared a beer in a bike-strewn parking lot -- before Critical M...' [...]
This bobblehead of oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser is amazing. Bobblehead LLC of KCMO made it for McFadden's, and if you're in need of a stocking stuffer, now you can take home you... [...]
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino poked a player in the chest during a practice, sparking the super secret internal investigation that everyone's not doing a good job of keeping secrets a... [...]
Chemical spills. Buried drums of unknown substances. Teflon poisoning. PCB drippings. Mold. These are just some of the cringe-inducing details included in a Department of Labor summary of i... [...]
Sinister portents abound, Kansas City! Normally, as rational skeptics, we'd laugh at the idea of anything unusual happening in 2012 -- a date getting a lot of attention for being the last y...' [...]
In her most calculated move against the liberal media elite to date, celebrity ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is saying heck no to letting the fourth estate into her December 2 speaking en... [...]
Yesterday, Kansas City Police Chief James Corwin announced a $8,000 grant from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's foundation to buy a new vicious, snarling, face-biting m... [...]
Mayor Mark Funkhouser's dismal outing in this week's fantasy football match up has got us asking, "What the Funk?" Again, our Vulcan mayor got spanked, this time by Results Minneapolis, 86-... [...]
Kansas Democrats finally found someone to run against Sam Brownback. Their candidate: Tom Wiggans.Who? Tom Wiggans of the Wiggans Drugstore.Uh ... In Fredonia. Where? He knows a lot about ... [...]
The Kansas City Chiefs' fortunes have not changed, even after beating the Oakland Raiders on Sunday. The Chiefs announced today that wide receiver Dwayne Bowe has been suspended four games ...' [...]
A headline like "KU AD Perkins meets with football players over concerns about coach Mark Mangino" can mean a lot of different things. Just look at the picture (Mangino is on the left).The ... [...]
The daughters of Burrell Mohler Jr. told authorities that their father made them kidnap and kill a man, KCTV 5 reports. The TV station cites
a warrant alleging that Mohler Jr. and his daug... [...]
Earlier this year, when President Obama zeroed out funding for "abstinence-only sex education" in the 2010 federal budget, parents and teachers who don't want their kids stumbling ignorantl...' [...]
Kansas City is shaking free of our suffering Royals -- at least, in the world of fake news.Does it get any better than The Onion making up quotes for Mayor Funkhouser? Observe:"It was time ..." [...]
When Johnson County prosecutors charged her in the April 2009 death
of a child at the daycare she ran out of her Olathe home, Jeanette L. Lawrence was writing a book about how to run a dayc... [...]
Thanks to this weekend's "Weddings and Celebrations" section of The New York Times, we learned that Edward Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelilus' 28-year-old son, wed Lisa Rockefeller, also 28, la...' [...]
The Kansas City Star's unhealthy obsession with former Kansas City Chief and future Cincinnati Bengal Larry Johnson continues.Star sports reporter Kent Babb updated his Twitter yesterday aft... [...]
Kansas City notched its 101st homicide overnight.
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Around 9:49 p.m., Kansas City police met a man at the Apple Market at 6th and Monroe who claimed to have information abou... [...]
After yesterday morning's chase, police charged John I. Battaglia, 25, with second-degree assault on a law officer and armed criminal action. His alleged weapon of choice: a 1981 black-on-... [...]
Jackson County prosecutors charged Hussein A. Ahmed last week with allegedly attempting to have sex with his step daughter when she was younger than 14-years-old, according to the Jackson ... [...]
Acknowledging that its dress code was a public-relations debacle, Power & Light District officials announced their intention to form an oversight board.Standing in front of the predomi... [...]
About a week ago, Paul Burns' face was slashed in an argument with a man over parking. Fox 4 interviewed Burns, who showed off his scar and said he needed 150 stitches to sew his face back ...' [...]
Last week, the Kansas City police announced targeted enforcement for jaywalkers and others violating the oft-overlooked pedestrians-in-crosswalks-have-right-of-way thing. Police spent two ... [...]
Just in time for the first truly dreary, winter-foreshadowing weekend of the fall, the Arts Incubator made several hundred fans feel all warm and cozy Saturday night.
The annual Turn On... [...]
E-mails obtained by The New York Times show that lobbyists working for biotech powerhouse Genetech and two Washington, D.C., law firms drafted statements for members of Congress to read in... [...]
Kansas City, Kansas, police say they are investigating the death of 28-year-old Jose Salazar-Moreno as a homicide. Salazar Moreno was found shot in an alley south of the 900 block of A... [...]
Not sure where it came from and who's behind it, but I spied this creative bicycle chained to a street sign at 41st and Main this weekend. Not only is it a cool work of urban art, but also ... [...]
Ever wonder why rightbloggers don't ever just say the hell with it?
Week after week we unfailingly find them locked in the highest of
dudgeons, raging about such inanities as old Sesame St...' [...]
Last week's Veterans Day was an unusually poignant one, coming just a day after the memorial service for 12 soldiers and a civilian killed at Fort Hood by a man who, as far as we still know,... [...]
Another family member has been charged in the sexual abuse case in Lafayette County. Darrel Wayne Mohler, the 72-year-old brother of
Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., is charged with two c... [...]
Kansas City police shot a suspect who tried run over officers with a car early Monday morning, Kansas City police say. Around 1:30 a.m., Kansas City officers stopped a car at Anderson and Wh... [...]
Update: Jose Diaz-Turcios, the second shooting victim, has died from his injuries.***Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Eldier Molina and Juan Lopez Sunday with first-degree murder in ... [...]
Amber Kahn was shot and killed near 11th and Van Brunt around 8 p.m. Saturday.
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Kansas City police say the 27-year-old was taken to a local hospital where she died from he... [...]
Two men were charged last week with killing Dennis J. Moore Sr. Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Levert Xavier Braswell and Artis M. Johnson with first-degree murder in the death of ... [...]
You draw a Florida to look like a big cock -- and say "Florida got excited" -- in a classroom, then you won't be teaching for long. Ryan Haraughty found out the hard way this week. I mentio...' [...]
In Mitchell Zuckoff's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 560 pages, $29.95), Altman tells the author that his motto is "Giggle and give in." But this thick, frustrating boo...' [...]
There's a new push for glass-recycling in Kansas City thanks to Ripple Glass. Carolyn Szczepanski writes all about the new venture in this week's feature story, "The Ripple Effect." The goa... [...]
Ask Bill Clause, of good-hearted nonprofits KKFI 90.1 and CrossCurrents Culture, how he came to write 1937: A Helluva Year, a musical steeped in the history of Kansas City and the labor move... [...]
Watch mountains explode, rivers turn black and grown men cry. Nope, we're not talking about 2012, but another disturbing movie debuting this weekend about the end of the world.
At least, t...' [...]
Update: KMBC Channel 9 reports that police have cleared and released Larry Kidd.Kidd told Fox 4 that being named as an "associate" of the Mohler family and treated as a suspect was a "horri..." [...]
In one way, it was surprising to see what might appear to be a blasphemous argument coming from the Missouri Record, a journal of politics and policy put out by the conservative Missourians... [...]
The man who confessed to killing a Wichita abortion provider doesn't believe he can get a fair trial in Sedgwick County. The Wichita Eagle reports that Scott Roeder's public defenders want...' [...]
The sickening allegations against Burrell Mohler Sr. and four of his sons have brought unwelcome attention to the Community of Christ, a church that's headquartered in Independence. Mohler... [...]
Branson, Missouri, is not exactly the birthplace of sophistication. Perhaps it was just an innocent mistake when, on September 9, 2008, agents with the U.S. Department of Immigration and C... [...]
Former Jackson County Sheriff's Deputy Steven W. Burgess pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl while she was detained on July 24, 2007. The 35-year-old Independenc... [...]
Larry Johnson is in Dallas right now. The GPS on his phone betrayed him, updating his location on his Twitter page.The Kansas City Star's Kent Babb blabbed it to the world in this update on ... [...]
The Shawnee Mission School District says notorious artist of phallic Florida and ex-teacher Ryan Haraughty isn't offering a full disclosure on the reason he was axed. The district issued a ...' [...]
Tomorrow would have been Buck O'Neil's 98th birthday. In honor of the true Kansas City legend, all 10 local First Watch breakfast spots are donating all -- all -- of Friday's profits to th...' [...]
Kansas City police chased down homicide suspect Darrell Rodgers yesterday afternoon. Police say Rodgers, 20, was wanted for a double homicide near 1022 Garfield on July 17. The victims wer... [...]
I'd like to say that I was shocked by this week's story of five men charged with sexually abusing young girls and a boy in their own family. But after what we learned in January about Da...' [...]
Kansas City police are investigating the death of a woman in the 1200 block of Askew.
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Police were called to the residence around 7:11 a.m. Thursday morning after receiving ... [...]
When Jason Miller started Bite Club of KC, the group's focus was squarely on saving the deer in Shawnee Mission Park. But the Lenexa resident is making good on his promise that the organizat... [...]
Lies, lies, it was all lies. Former Kansas City Chief Tony Gonzalez and his wife, October, didn't really take it all off for PETA's "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ad campaign. Gonzalez tol...' [...]
When I spoke to Steve Russell for my story about Ripple Glass this week, he seemed to confirm my -- and many recyclers' -- fears about the fate of the bottles, cans and paper products we to...' [...]
One of the best free things to do during the holidays in Kansas City is wander around Union Station. Workers there haven't put up any decorations yet, so it's too early to tell whether this ...' [...]
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Kno... [...]
Jonathan Conklin was the victim of this morning's homicide. Kansas City police found Conklin, who they say is 23-years-old and from KCMO, shot to death in a backyard in the 3100 block of Ea... [...]
Frustrated by the lack of activity at Antioch Center, Northland representatives want to put pressure on the shopping center's erstwhile redeveloper.Eastbourne Investments, the aging mall's...' [...]
Update (3:43 p.m. Wednesday, November 11): Kansas City police say they caught the homicide suspect from earlier this afternoon. They arrested 20-year-old Darrell Rodgers on a Jackson County ... [...]
If we can't all agree that Florida looks like a penis, then the divisions in this country are way too deep. Teacher Ryan Haraughty was fired from from Mission Valley Middle School after dra...' [...]
If men could give birth, there would be a birth-control soft drink by now. When it comes to health care, anything that affects the wang becomes a national priority. That's why the latest ne... [...]
