Andrew Gaug

The city of Lenexa will now allow Project 1020 to accept up to 50 people per night. The organization said it's been “overwhelmed” by demand for shelter and had to turn away people during Kansas City's recent winter storms.

Starting Monday night, a new blast of winter weather will see up to 10 inches of snow and wind chills as low as negative-30. The storm will plunge Missouri and Kansas into the freezing cold through Friday.

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As sleet and snow began falling, volunteers at Project 1020, Johnson County’s only emergency cold-weather shelter, made sure unhoused residents weren’t caught in the life-threatening cold. Unlike other county organizations, the shelter operated around the clock for several days straight.

Nearly 100 players from the region, spanning grades 6-12, are participating in the new Ad Astra Chamber Orchestra of Kansas City. “I try to get away from stuffy concerts,” says the group co-founder Russ Pieken.

After a more than six-hour council meeting that stretched past midnight, a majority of Lenexa City Council rejected the plan to buy a former La Quinta Inn and turn it into a homeless services center. Advocates said it was a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to address the county's homelessness crisis.

A beloved Kansas City favorite since the 1950s, Hereford House expanded into Leawood in November 1996. The steakhouse cited “financial strains” created by continued legal fallout from an ex-kitchen worker’s alleged food contamination.

At least eight lawsuits have been filed by customers after an employee at the Hereford House in Leawood was arrested and charged with 33 felonies. Jace Hanson allegedly contaminated food in the kitchen by urinating and rubbing his genitals on it, and then posted videos of himself doing so online.

The Lenexa City Council approved a pilot program that will provide $100,000 in property tax relief for older homeowners in the area.

Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City is hosting visitation Friday night, followed by a funeral mass on Saturday morning. Both events are open to the public, while a burial after the funeral will be family only.