🏠Multiple Manufacturing Jobs Now Hiring in Wyandotte County, KS
Wyandotte County’s manufacturing scene is buzzing this month, with several solid full-time openings offering steady pay, benefits, and room to grow. Here are a few worth checking out:
Liberation Now Is Here: The Kansas City Defender Launches the Midwest’s First Radical Black...
The Kansas City Defender has officially launched Liberation Now, our first-ever video interview series and the latest expansion of the Defender’s mission to build radical, independent, Black-led media in the heart of the Midwest. “Too many Black faces are being bought up in service to a genocide, in service...
Friday’s severe weather threat could be the week’s worst: What’s lining up in KC
After widespread strong to severe thunderstorms swept through the area Wednesday, bringing hail up to 4 inches in diameter in Miami County and spawning a tornado in Clinton , the Kansas City area should see a much quieter day on Thursday. But it will just be the calm before the storm. The National Weather Service says Friday has the highest chance for severe weather of...
Helping animal survivors of domestic violence ‘recognizes the importance of the animal, but it...
According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 71% of pet owning women entering shelters reported that their abuser threatened or harmed family pets. Rose Brooks is a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City that has been operating a pet shelter and pet-friendly housing in their...
Parking debate reignites as Kansas City mulls downtown Royals ballpark
As discussions about a downtown stadium have fired back up again, I noticed so too have the debates over parking.
Kansas City may push food trucks hundreds of feet from restaurants: ‘Where would they...
A proposal to expand the required distance between food trucks and brick-and-mortar restaurants in Kansas City is drawing pushback from mobile vendors, who say the change could limit where they can operate just months before the FIFA World Cup brings an influx of visitors. The ordinance, which would increase that...
In the Dotte dispatch: Deputy knelt on his back and he died. Family wants...
Editor’s note: The following is from this week’s In the Dotte newsletter, published weekly on Tuesdays. You can sign up here to get them delivered to your inbox . Good afternoon, Wyandotte County. Charles Adair was just 50 years old when he died in the Wyandotte County Jail. And in the roughly nine months since a deputy allegedly kneeled on his back until he became...
Independence police detain armed man at Blue Springs elementary school
An unknown man brought a gun into a Blue Springs elementary school Thursday morning, according to the Independence police department. No one was hurt. Officers with the Independence Police Department were dispatched to Sunny Pointe Elementary, at 3920 NW R.D. Mize Rd, around 8:50 a.m., according to Detective Jack Taylor, an IPD spokesperson. Police were sent to the elementary school after receiving a...
Man sentenced for shooting, critically injuring zTrip driver in northeast KC
A Kansas City man will serve 18 years in prison for his role in the 2024 shooting of a rideshare driver in Kansas City’s Lykins neighborhood that left the driver in critical condition. The shooting occurred as the victim was working for rideshare service zTrip. In a plea agreement filed in Jackson County court Thursday, Jakori Conaway, 20, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault...
Kansas City police sergeant alleges racial discrimination, retaliation in lawsuit
A Kansas City police sergeant is suing the department , claiming he was targeted for discipline and retaliation after complaining that supervisors enforced policies more strictly against him than against white officers. The lawsuit, filed in early April in Jackson County Circuit Court on behalf of Sgt. Terry Grimmett alleges racial discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment. According to the lawsuit, a captain told...
