Emily Younker
News Editor, Kansas News ServiceEmily Younker is the news editor for the Kansas News Service. She previously spent 14 years at her hometown newspaper, The Joplin Globe in Joplin, Missouri, where she was part of the award-winning team that covered the deadly May 22, 2011, tornado and its aftermath.
She also is a former English language teaching assistant at a high school in Limoges, France. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and French from Missouri State University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Email her at eyounker@kcur.org.
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Mayor Quinton Lucas called the action by Republican Mike Kehoe an "unnecessary escalation." He also criticized the state's lack of response when a white nationalist hate group marched through Kansas City last month. -
Kansas City is seeing flooding around the metro, plus downed trees and traffic crashes, after a "confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was reported in Raytown near the Truman Sports Complex. -
The National Weather Service says a "confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was located near Raytown, moving east at 45 mph towards Independence. Tornado warnings have been canceled for Jackson County and surrounding areas, but the threat of flash flooding remains. -
MidAmerica Nazarene University will study the Madam C.J. Walker School, which was the subject of an important desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s. -
American Cancer Society research shows that despite significant drops in the mortality rate, breast cancer incidence rates have risen in Kansas and across the country in the past decade, with a particularly notable increase among women younger than 50. -
Students at the University of Kansas say their "liberation encampment" will last several days. They also have demanded that KU divest itself of any ties to Israel.
