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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 to act against the certification of Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez. The decision was in c...

KCUR On October 20, 2017, one week after being exonerated of a double murder, Lamonte McIntyre appeared on KCUR's 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: The woman who falsely identified 17-year old Lamonte McIntyre in his 1994 trial says she was pres...