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Investigators looking into the Keystone pipeline oil spill in Kansas found problems in the manufacturing and installation of a pipe that burst last December. Owner TC Energy also knew that the specific piece of the pipeline had been warped for a decade. Plus: The unique role that Kansas City played in McDonald's becoming a fast food giant.
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Gen Z has the lowest rates of gun ownership in the U.S., but young people like Lydia Kidder and Ryan Whelan are the exception. The Kansas City couple say they've lost faith in elected officials and law enforcement to keep them safe, and are worried about white supremacist groups like the Proud Boys.
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More than a year after his killing, the family of Tyrea Pryor Sr. has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Independence and two of the officers involved in Pryor’s killing.
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Leaders point to the surveillance of Andrea Dorch, the former head of the civil rights department, and her subsequent resignation as evidence of a City Hall administration that "oppresses Black people."
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A 1975 protest at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City emerged from years of escalating tension — between Black community members and their city, and between McDonald’s and the neighborhoods it inhabited. But this particular location was also one of the first Black-owned fast-food franchises in the country, an accomplishment born from its own struggle for inclusion.
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The investigation by the Office of the Disciplinary Administrator was opened following a complaint by Sheila Albers, whose teenage son John was shot and killed by Overland Park police in 2018.
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How is the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. living on in Kansas City? We hear from two Kansas City activists about their experiences living through the Civil Rights Movement and how they think the country and this city are doing in the long struggle for justice.
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Musician Danny Cox faced discrimination while touring in Missouri in the 1960s, while public servant Al Brooks marched across the city during the 1968 riots. They've seen firsthand the long arc of the Civil Rights Movement, and how the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is still ongoing in Kansas City.
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"It's hard to believe others in the department didn't know what was going on," former U.S. Attorney for Kansas Stephen R. McAllister says of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department during former Det. Roger Golubski's time there.
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Roger Golubski is back in federal court on Monday for a hearing to determine if he should remain in custody or be released on bond. The former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective is accused of sexually assaulting two women — but he faces charges of depriving them of their civil rights under federal law.
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After years of numerous allegations of coercion and sexual assault, retired KCKPD detective Roger Golubski was taken into custody by the FBI.
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In an unusually graphic motion aimed at keeping Golubski in jail before trial, federal prosecutors laid out how the former Kansas City, Kansas, detective engaged in a pattern of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women and girls as young as 13 years old, before threatening his victims into silence.