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A Wyandotte County detention officer is on unpaid administrative leave after being charged with second-degree murder in the death of an inmate in the summer of 2025.

A 12-year-old boy was reported missing from Kansas City Wednesday night and police are asking for the public’s help in finding him, according to a police spokeswoman. Bently Monroe was last seen around 10 p.m. Wednesday near East 50th Street and Brooklyn Avenue in the Kansas City’s Blue Hills neighborhood, and his...

My name is Mili Mansaray, and I serve as Senior Editor + Director of Radical Media Initiatives at The Kansas City Defender. I help lead our newsroom’s editorial coverage and work across our media and community programs to shape how our journalism shows up in the world. Ten years...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KY3) - A Kansas City nurse and Harrisburg native who once feared losing her leg to a surgical complication is now working full shifts in the emergency room, thanks to treatment at MU Health Care’s Limb Preservation Center in Columbia. Madeleine Gillman, a runner, ER nurse, and...

After six years as a mostly weekend only, lunch-to-sellout barbecue operation in the West Bottoms, Chef J BBQ is ready to give the metro its first traditional outdoor smokehouse restaurant. The new North Kansas City venue will feature live fire, offset smokers set up next to a large outdoor patio...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas responded Thursday to a recent Arizona Daily Star column calling on Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark to begin moving the tournament to other locations at the end of the current contract in 2031.

Some restaurants are just a place to eat. Others become an experience you talk about for weeks. 🏰. Wandering Vine at the Castle in Shawnee, Kansas — just a stone’s throw from Olathe — is firmly in the second category. Owned by husband-and-wife team Dan and Carla...

Betty Rae's is getting in on the World Cup action as it launches its new "World Cone" special edition items.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An investigation is underway after a Kansas City home was destroyed in a fire early Thursday morning. According to the Kansas City Fire Department, at about 1:40 a.m., crews were called to a home on Rickey Road — a remote area on the east side of the city — on reports of a fire.

CASS COUNTY, Mo.—A Nebraska man died in an accident just before 10:30p.m. Friday near Kansas City. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2018 Ford Explorer driven by a 30-year-old Lee's Summit man was southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 49 at MO 291 The SUV struck a 2012 Toyota Prius driven by a...