The Beacon has received a record nine awards from the Missouri Press Association, recognizing the work of our dedicated journalists.
Our nine awards — including two first-place honors, four second-place honors and three third-place honors — were earned by four of The Beacon’s reporters. Here are those award-winning stories:
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- Josh Merchant won a first-place award for Best News or Feature Series for “Half of KC’s traffic deaths in the last two years happened on these 10 streets.”
- Suzanne King won a first-place award for Best Health Story for “Plasma you sell in east Kansas City could end up in medicine an ocean away.”
- Maria Benevento won a second-place award for Best Story About Education for “Year-round school is out at three KC-area…