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Sheriff Darryl Forté has pointed to a nonexistent provision in Missouri's new voting law to limit voter registration efforts inside the Jackson County jail, where hundreds of detainees are potentially eligible voters. Missouri's voter registration deadline is Oct. 12.

In January 2018, Overland Park police officer Clayton Jenison shot and killed 17-year-old John Albers as the teenager backed his family minivan out of his garage. The Washington Post has taken a deep dive into the ensuing investigation.

Panasonic announced on Wednesday it has chosen De Soto, Kansas, as the site of a massive new factory. The plant will be the largest vehicle battery production facility in the world and will cost $4 billion to construct.

Virginia Franzese's 12-year-old son recently tried to take his own life. He identifies as trans and regularly faces educational, bureaucratic and political minefields.

Her son is out of the hospital now, she said, but her family and other families with transitioning kids continue to face educational, bureaucratic and political minefields.

A community can serve as a social safety net, but finding one and becoming a part of it is different from simply making friends.

It took local, state and federal investigators years to put together the case against Wandale J. Fulton. Now the alleged ring leader is set for trial in federal court in Kansas City next month.

Kansas CPOST, the agency that regulates police officers in the state, decided Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez did nothing wrong when he said the officer who shot and killed a teenager left the department under "ordinary circumstances." Photo credit Sam Zeff/KCUR 89.3. After two months of investigating, the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (CPOST) — the organization that regulates police officers’ licenses in the state — has decided not...

KCUR On October 20, 2017, one week after being exonerated of a double murder, Lamonte McIntyre appeared on KCURs Up To Date. Additional information regarding the handling of his case by Kansas City, Kansas police and prosecutors continues to be uncovered. The story of why the key witness in the 1994 trial of wrongfully convicted Lamonte McIntyre recanted and how the Kansas City Chiefs’ win in the 1970 Super Bowl helped bring about the end of the Kansas City mafia. Segment 1, beginning at 4:39...