When the Kansas Bureau of Investigation released its second report on the death of an inmate in the Wyandotte County jail, it said it was a homicide. What it didn't say? A sheriff's officer knelt on the inmate's back before he was asphyxiated. www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...

The gathering mirrored large protests nationwide designed to amplify the voices of workers this Labor Day and object to the perceived disenfranchisement of Democrats by Republican efforts to redraw the lines around blue districts.

Update to the killing of KCKPD Officer Hunter Simoncic: Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office will hold a press conference at 3pm to discuss the charges in the case of Dennis Mitchell III. Yesterday's story: www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

Some damn fine news at @kcur.org and for Kansas City journalism. www.kcur.org/inside-kcur/...

I LOVE back-to-school and fall and this story made me even happier. From Jodi Fortino and @kcur.org

When disgraced KCK Police Detective Roger Golubski killed himself the day his federal trial was to start, his victims were furious and skeptical that he was actually dead. Wyandotte County DA Mark Dupree, who was at the scene that day, says Golubski died by his own hand. www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

KCUR investigative reporter Peggy Lowe and KFF Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith have won a national Edward R. Murrow Award Thursday for their news series "The Injured." https://loom.ly/ZmhmQP4

Introducing: our new resources hub! Looking for all of our timely guidance on how to accurately cover trans communities? Trying to understand complex political messaging about governmental efforts to limit trans rights, or spot misinformation on a deadline? It's all in one place now 👇

Every summer we have the awful duty to watch the murder count in Kansas City. This summer, we're seeing domestic violence-related homicides lead the pack. I went to a victim's funeral last Saturday and it's heartbreaking: www.kcur.org/news/2025-08...

Public media stations around the country are anxiously awaiting the results of today’s House vote that could claw back $1.1 billion from public broadcasting.

"Since the 1960s, studies have shown that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses tend to make protests more volatile — not less." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/09/l...

Three mothers whose children were shot during the Chiefs' Super Bowl rally in 2024 are suing a host of entities, saying the mass shooting shows systemic failure and could have been prevented. www.kcur.org/news/2025-06...

FEATURES SERIES OR PROJECT, DIV 3 Feature treatment of any lifestyle, A&E or news topic that has multiple parts. 🥇 1st Place: @realbrambo.bsky.social and @peggylowe.bsky.social 🥈 2nd Place: Staff, @bloombergbusiness.bsky.social

The descriptions of Roger Golubski as the king of the KCK streets for decades, ultimately rising to head of the KCKPD homicide division, are a far cry from how he died. www.kcur.org/news/2025-05...

Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, sounds like it's just down the road from Mayberry. But its jail is a profitable point in the county because "under a contract with ICE, the jail is filled mostly with foreign nationals from Mexico and Central and South America." kansasreflector.com/2025/05/04/a...

Still hungry: "One year after a federal judge ruled Missourians were being illegally denied food aid by the state, the Department of Social Services has made “no progress” in addressing the problem." missouriindependent.com/2025/05/07/m...

Coming to you today to ask for your help with Public Media Giving Day. Your support is the strength behind @kcur.org's powerful commitment of service to the people of Kansas City. Give here: kcur.secureallegiance.com/kcur/WebModu...

Must-read obit by @peggylowe.bsky.social "Fighting fascism can be fun." www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

Glock "switches" have been a problem in Kansas City and the many non-fatal shootings have resulted from this automatic weapon fire. stateline.org/2025/04/23/s...

“They're just in that pot all day brewing. How do you think they're going to act?” Good look here at the plans for a reboot of the Leavenworth prison by Zane Irwin from @kcur.org www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

This is very cool, @apnews.com: www.ap.org/media-center...

“This is a brazen violent act that endangered the whole community." www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

A troubling new trend in Kansas City: www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

A coalition of grassroots groups are organizing against renewal of the jail tax - they say it won’t effectively address crime, is fiscally irresponsible and that using a sales tax is regressive, and would impact low-income people the most. Celisa Calacal for @kcur.org www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

"With Kehoe’s signature, St. Louis joins Kansas City as the only major metropolitan police force in the country under control of a state board rather than local officials." missouriindependent.com/2025/03/26/g...

“We don’t want Miss Colbert to see the light of day again." www.kcur.org/news/2025-03...

One of the frustrating things about covering gun violence and criminal justice has been the lack of up-to-date, accurate data that we rely on for our stories. That's why this effort by @thetrace.org is so cool: www.thetrace.org/2025/03/trac...

A 40-year-old man still struggling to recover from being shot at the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade this week sued the KC Sports Commission. My story from @kcur.org www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

The two women caught up in the long-running scandal focused on how the US Attorney's office in Kansas City, Kansas, breached ethical standards are facing a disciplinary board. My story from Topeka: www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...

“We are waging a 21st-century information warfare campaign against the left. It’s like grassroots guerilla warfare." www.levernews.com/how-to-comba...

We are just DAYS AWAY from the @kansascitycurrent.bsky.social season! If you can't go to the games in person, @maddycfox.bsky.social has you covered on the TV sked here: www.kcur.org/sports/2025-...

Jane Fonda: "Woke just means you give a damn about other people." #SAGAwards #indiewire

"In 2022, an astonishing 62% of violent crimes reported to police across Missouri have gone unsolved. Ask yourselves, would a criminal worry that lawmakers might tack on extra years to a prison sentence, or do they prefer the odds they’ll never be caught?" missouriindependent.com/2025/02/19/r...

BREAKING and just confirmed: Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old white Northland man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl has died. The Clay County DA confirmed it, but didn't give a date. Just last Friday, Lester pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in the April 2023 shooting.

"He has the soul of a warrior." apnews.com/article/leon...

So this protest is despite Missouri having a “ban the box” hiring practice, in which state agencies wait until later to review information about criminal histories. It’s supposed to be about 2nd chances. missouriindependent.com/2025/02/18/p...

Survivors thaw at their own pace. Regaining control is a process that can take weeks, months, or years. It can be hard not to feel forgotten when life carries on around them. In our series "The Injured," @realbrambo.bsky.social and @peggylowe.bsky.social bring us their stories:

I was in court today when 86-year-old Andrew Lester agreed to a plea bargain -- guilty to 2nd-degree assault. Ralph Yarl and his family were there, too. His mom, Cleo Nagbe, told me, "Ralph is doing his best to be OK." www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...

On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman identified as a former student opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack in Newtown, Connecticut. Read more: t.ly/BesN-

One year ago today, I was in Topeka covering a hearing and got an urgent call to get back to Kansas City. A shooting at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade. 1 dead, 24 wounded. @kffhealthnews.org & @kcur.org has been covering this story ever since. This is our series "The Injured." www.kcur.org/the-injured

Shot. Trampled. Burned. Scarred. One year ago today a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chief's Super Bowl parade killed one person and injured at least 24 more. @peggylowe.bsky.social and I have been talking to the survivors since then. Here are their stories👇 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NEW: I want to tell you about some of the most courageous people I've ever met. One year ago they were injured during the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City: Shot, trampled, burned, scarred. They've allowed @peggylowe.bsky.social and me into their lives to see their journeys

A couple thoughts: Since February 14, the day of a mass shooting at KC's Super Bowl parade, @realbrambo.bsky.social and I have been tracking 24 injured people. It's been moving, complicated, and deeply personal, to us and to the folks who opened their lives to us.

"It signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare the president’s supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record — to cast it into the fog of confusion and forgetting" www.propublica.org/article/janu...

Kansas City Police to get a significant increase in its budget this year. @kcur.org www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

"For the first time in our nation's history, a Black institution owns property of a white supremacist group." A little hope here this morning: www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

Damn fine police accountability story here by @journalist-sherman.bsky.social

You know how the Trump admin blocked publication of the CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report, which until now had been released every single week since 1952? Turns out last week's report would have included 2 important new studies on bird flu transmission. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Untangling this tale yesterday took me and @maddycfox.bsky.social a little while...this woman was accused of killing two people in KC in 1960, fleeing to Mexico, killing another there, then escaping prison. She was free until she died (of natural causes) in 2022. www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...