Steve Vockrodt
Investigative Editor, Midwest NewsroomSteve Vockrodt is an investigative journalist who has reported in Kansas City since 2005. Areas of reporting interest include business, politics, justice issues and breaking news investigations.
As investigative editor for the Midwest Newsroom, he provides direction and guidance for reports around the region and continues to produce his own stories.
You can reach him at svockrodt@stlpr.org.
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A judge who has previously ruled against the Affordable Care Act struck down a portion of the law that requires insurers to cover some health screenings, pregnancy-related care and HIV-preventive medication. It's not clear yet how it will affect people in Kansas City, but advocates say it could deepen health disparities. -
Jeanna Repass has endorsements from top Democrats to lead the state party, but a former campaign manager claims Repass canceled her last paycheck.
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Packers Sanitation Services, based in Wisconsin, paid $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation found it employed children in dangerous jobs in eight different states.
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Authorities say Timothy Haslett Jr. kept a 22-year-old woman captive in his basement.
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UMB lawyers said the allegations lack context and the bank used an appropriate standard of care in its role as a trustee of Benton’s vast art holdings.
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Federal agents now control several accounts and two cars that they say were funded or bought with misappropriated funds by former Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City controller Lee Brown.
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The Missouri artist’s descendants charge that UMB Bank, Benton estate trustees, mismanaged artwork in its care, even selling pieces without permission and below their true value.
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The Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City sued Lee Brown, claiming he misrepresented nearly every fact about his professional life to get the job and then used his position to steer agency funds to his bank account.
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Unified Government Commissioners approved a measure that will let them have more say in what ordinances make it to a vote. Mayor Tyrone Garner said the move amounted to "political backstabbing."
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As Eric Schmitt prepares to leave the Missouri Attorney General's Office for the U.S. Senate, the Lee's Summit School District still wants a judge to rule about whether he had authority to demand that schools rescind public health orders.
