Aided by grants, artists are creating ground murals and other projects on roadways, underpasses and in public squares.
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Tag Archives: Kansas City (Mo)
From the Wastewater Drain, Solid Pandemic Data
The coronavirus could turn sewage surveillance into a mainstream public health practice.
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Missouri Lawmaker Rick Roeber Faces Expulsion Over Child Abuse Accusations
An ethics committee report said that State Representative Rick Roeber physically and sexually abused his children and once drowned puppies in a pond.
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Britt Reid Charged With Felony D.W.I.
Reid, a former assistant coach for the Kansas City Chiefs and the son of the team’s head coach, crashed into two cars in February, leaving a child seriously injured.
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Alvin Sykes, 64, Self-Taught Legal Defender of Civil Rights, Dies
After dropping out of high school, he studied law at the public library, then used his knowledge to reopen cold cases, including Emmett Till’s murder.
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‘Likely a Death Sentence’: Officials Fear Cold Weather Is Greater Risk for Homeless than Virus
Cities and community groups are wrestling with how to shelter a vulnerable population without exposing it to an airborne virus that spreads most easily indoors.
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$700,000 Homes in Pennsylvania, Missouri and California
A stone house in horse country outside Philadelphia, a Georgian Revival home in Kansas City and a 1907 cottage in Pasadena.
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Kansas City Chiefs Ban Headdresses and Native American-Themed Face Paint at Stadium
The announcement came just over a month after Washington’s football team announced, under pressure from corporate sponsors, that it would drop its logo and the Redskins name.
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Man Charged With Murdering 4-Year-Old Whose Killing Prompted U.S. Anti-Crime Operation
The Justice Department last month named an operation to combat violent crime in cities after LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept in an apartment in Kansas City, Mo.
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In the Wake of Covid-19 Lockdowns, a Troubling Surge in Homicides
“People have gotten to the point where they just don’t give a damn,” said a minister in Kansas City, which is on pace for a record number of killings.
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Kansas City Police Investigate Vandalism of Memorial to Lynching Victim
The memorial to Levi Harrington, a black man killed in Kansas City, Mo., in the 1880s, had been vandalized before.
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Their Wedding Day Was ‘Divinely Appointed’
Melody Thuston and Damion Cowan had to scale down their celebration because of the coronavirus, and when their original officiant couldn’t attend, her father, a bishop, stepped in.
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2 Kansas City Officers Charged With Assaulting Transgender Woman
Prosecutors said the officers slammed Breona Hill to the sidewalk and kneed her in the face, torso and ribs in an episode that a passer-by captured on video.
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A Virus’s Effects: Coughs, Chills and Sometimes a Forgiving Spirit
Cities are halting evictions and utility shut-offs, and law enforcement officials are freeing some low-level offenders from jail. But how long should the generosity last?
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