Sam Zeff
Metro ReporterYou deserve to know what your taxpayer dollars are paying for and what public officials are doing on your behalf – I’ll work to report on irresponsible government spending in the Kansas City area and shed light on controversies that slow government down. And when you hear my voice in the morning, you know you’re getting everything you need to start your day.
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After a nerve-racking game that saw tight end Travis Kelce yelling angrily at coach Andy Reid and Taylor Swift anxiously picking her fingernails in a suite, the Kansas City Chiefs prevailed in overtime.
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The Kansas Supreme Court said late Tuesday it no longer needs to monitor K-12 funding. That put an end to the Gannon lawsuit filed in 2010. Some Democrats are worried the Republican-controlled Legislature will try to cut school funding now that the court isn’t looking over its shoulder.
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Ward Worley, executive director of Plaza Academy, was charged in September with a misdemeanor. Because it's a private school, the state has no oversight on personnel issues. The mother of the victim has since enrolled her child at a different school.
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James Spick, 58, made $11 million in four years selling stolen catalytic converters, according to law enforcement. There may have been 55,000 victims.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. would start 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in American history — with an event at Kansas State University. Just months before his assassination, the speech was his last on a college campus.
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University of Kansas Athletics hired four law firms to handle an NCAA investigation that dragged on for six years. In one month alone, more than 15 lawyers at four firms around the country worked on the case.
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In a scathing preliminary audit released Monday, Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick said that up to 200,00 Jackson County taxpayers were victims of a reassessment that "violated state statute and trampled on their rights."
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Marquis Wagner died two years ago after being handcuffed and placed in a restraining chair, according to a lawsuit filed in Jackson County Circuit Court. Guards allegedly ignored Wagner's pleas of "I can't breathe."
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After years of huge increases in thefts, experts say a drop in price for the precious metals, plus legislation to regulate metal dealers are deterring people from stealing the anti-pollution devices.
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The hold times for people calling for help from Kansas City Police at times have topped two minutes. Police hope a proposed auto attendant could help, but the fire department says the change would be less efficient for them.