Kansas City

Kansas City Mayor Who Just Extended Mask Mandate Conducts “Do Your Job” Tours

“Mayor Q” is a masked man about town. He frequently tweets pictures like these day and night.
(KANSAS CITY, MO) – Quentin Lucas, Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, announced last week an extension of the city’s State of Emergency declaration through mid-January. The extension is specifically related to the mask mandate which was implemented in June.

The Freshmen: What About Sharice Davids?

And, so far... a waste of a House seat. Better than Kevin Yoder, thoughKansas' 3rd district (Wyandotte and Johnson counties and some of more rural Miami County) flipped red to blue in 2018. Basically, the district is Kansas City and it's suburbs, a swing district that Obama lost narrowly twice but that Hillary won, also narrowly (one point), in 2016. The district is 72.8% white, 11.6% Latino, 8.6% African-American and 4.2% Asian.

1 Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Racially Motivated Kansas City Bar Shooting

Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kan. was arrested early Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in connection with a shooting at a bar in Olathe that left one person dead and and wounding two others. (Henry County (Mo.) Sheriff’s Office via AP)
OLATHE, Kan. (REPORT) — A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized.

Missouri Man Remains Imprisoned Despite Police Commissioner and Prosecutor Saying he is Innocent

A Kansas City man who has been in prison for two decades for a double murder has long claimed he is innocent.
And now a Kansas City Police commissioner as well as a former prosecutor who have reviewed his case are also saying he is innocent.
But Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said it’s too late for Ricky Kidd because he did not appeal it in time.

Volunteers Transformed NICU Babies with Handmade Halloween Costumes

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be a place of great stress and worry for parents, but the NICU at St. Luke Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, has a bit more happy Halloween cheer, thanks to a kindhearted group of volunteers who created some itty-bitty costumes for the hospital’s tiniest patients. [1]
The gifted March of Dimes volunteers crafted the costumes from felt and glue in a controlled room in the hospital to ensure it was safe and sanitary for the premature newborns.

Shigellosis Outbreak Sweeps Through Kansas City

More than 150 cases of Shigellosis have been reported in Kansas City, many of them in young children.
Health officials in Kansas City say there are normally about 10 cases of Shigellosis a year there, but the number has spiked dramatically to 150, and the illness has struck mostly children in daycare and elementary schools. The outbreak is 15 times the yearly average. [1]
In some cases Shigellosis can cause seizures, doctors say.