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The district's board of education voted to end the use of mascots like Indians and Braves because they are racially insensitive. Shawnee Mission North has used their current mascot, which will have to be changed, for 98 years.
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The settlement amount still needs approval from the city council.
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The ongoing pandemic means a more subdued atmosphere for Kansas City nightlife, even as the Chiefs march toward another Super Bowl.
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The Kansas City Chiefs hosted the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium, defeating the Buffalo Bills 38-24.
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They chose American citizenship in a pandemic and a snow storm, with chaos in the nation's Capitol. Here's why.
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In late 1955, a private club hired painter Thomas Hart Benton to create a small mural for its Kansas City meeting space. A photographer spent several months photographing Benton at work. Most of the negatives stayed out of sight -- until now.
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Letters from the Department of Labor indicate it's trying to recoup money it accidently overpaid to out-of-work people.
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A city councilmember said Prairie Village is in a “unique and necessary position" to address marijuana decriminalization, with medical marijuana legal in Missouri.
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While some hospitals are beginning to administer vaccines more widely, local health departments say they’re still trying to inoculate health care providers.
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Kamala Harris is set to become the country’s first female vice president. Harris is a Black woman of Indian and Jamaican descent, and the occasion is inspiring people of color across Kansas City.
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States will not receive large increases in COVID-19 vaccine doses that some had expected.
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Studies on infant mortality during the pandemic are still incomplete, but an area infant bereavement specialist says they're about the same as a typical year's losses—it's the grieving that's been more challenging.