Kansas City

It was never that serious.

Jay-Z and his social justice reform initiative Team ROC have directed their efforts to putting major pressure on the Department of Justice to take a seriously look into the corruption going on within the Kansas City Police Department. 

An organization run by rapper Jay-Z has facilitated donations totaling $1 million for the local innocence project to investigate wrongful convictions in Wyandotte County.

Quinton Lucas, mayor of Kansas City Missouri, was turned away from the polls just after he encouraged KC residents to get out and vote in the Missouri primary on Tuesday. Lucas was reportedly told by a poll worker that he “wasn’t in the system” to cast his ballot. Lucas showed up to vote at 7am in […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man was convicted of killing a Christian missionary from China and wounding two others while high on PCP. Jurors found Curtrail Hudson, 20, guilty Monday of second-degree murder and five other charges in the April 2018 shooting that killed 38-year-old Xindong Hao. Hao had arrived in the […]

For over three years now Alenco, Inc., a Kansas City based home improvement company, has made a friendly bet with like-companies from across the United States that call themselves the Big12. These businesses in the Big12 not only work together on best practices for their companies but also work together to support one another’s local […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A gunman who opened fire outside of a Kansas City nightclub, killing a woman and injuring at least 15 other people before a guard killed him, had a past weapons charge dropped after lawmakers loosened the state’s gun laws. Jahron Swift, 29, had been in trouble with the law before […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An armed security guard saved several lives when he shot and killed a heavily armed man who opened fire on a line of people waiting to get into a Kansas City, Missouri, bar, killing one person and wounding at least 15 others, Kansas City’s police chief said Monday. Police were […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King’s name from one of the city’s most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon. Unofficial results showed the proposal to remove King’s name received nearly […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Emotions that simmered for nearly a year over the renaming of an historic major thoroughfare in Kansas City, Missouri, for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led to a tense scene at a black church as get-out-the vote efforts wound down ahead of residents going to the polls. About 100 […]

[UPDATE:] KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have identified two suspects in a Kansas bar shooting that left four people dead and five others wounded. Police in Kansas City, Kansas, announced early Monday that 23-year-old Javier Alatorre was arrested Sunday afternoon in Kansas City, Missouri, while 29-year-old Hugo Villanueva-Morales is still at large. Both men […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — From huge rewards to calls for allowing Missouri cities to enact their own gun laws, leaders in St. Louis and Kansas City are grappling with a troubling rise in shooting deaths, especially those involving children. This past weekend was especially violent. In Kansas City, four men were killed Sunday, including two […]