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Kansas City officials want to reconstitute the jail on the top floor of KCPD headquarters. The city closed the jail in 2015, and — after an agreement with Jackson County fell through — now sends detainees to mid-Missouri.

After moving from Lawrence, Kansas, to New York City, Freedy Johnston hit it big with his major-label debut album, and charted on the Billboard Top 100. The 'songwriters' songwriter' is now attempting a shift away from his rock roots.

The legislation, negotiated by Missouri Rep. Jason Smith, expands a popular child tax credit and applies to families with multiple children. It also speeds up some tax breaks for research and development expensing for corporations.

The summer program is just the latest in a string of nighttime activities meant to keep kids busy in the summer and steer them away from guns and violence. But homicides — many of them involving kids and young adults — have topped 100 since 2015, and are on pace to set a record this year.

When you think about the guitar, your favorite rock band or a singer-songwriter might come to mind, but classical guitar rocks just as hard as its more mainstream counterparts. April is International Guitar Month: celebrate by learning more about Kansas City’s classical guitar scene.

About 1,000 nurses at Research Medical Center in Kansas City and Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park want more support and higher staffing levels. They started negotiations for a new contract this week with the hospitals’ owner, HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital giant with profits topping $5 billion.

Taussig's memoir delivers poignant and entertaining personal stories that examine "life in this body of mine."

Lee's Summit is on its third superintendent in four years, and teachers are worried that turnover at the top will keep their concerns about re-entry from being heard.

The plaintiffs alleged in court documents that Dr. James Stannard did not advise plaintiffs that “the surgery he was proposing has a failure rate as high as 86%.”

Vaccination isn't a perfect defense against flu. But vaccines remain the most reliable way to reduce the risk from an illness that causes thousands of deaths in the U.S. during a typical flu season.