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Kansas City is pressuring the Mid-America Regional Council to utilize a menu option for 911 callers, rather than route all calls through the Kansas City Police Department. Officials hope to drastically improve the time it takes for KCPD to answer 911 calls.

Three people were dead and five more were left with non-life threatening injuries after a shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning near 57th Street and Prospect Avenue.

Cecil Brooks, 60, is linked to disgraced former KCK Police Detective Roger Golubski through a federal sex trafficking case. The U.S. Attorney’s office will fight Brooks’ release.

Brian Betts, 46, says he was wrongfully convicted thanks to disgraced former KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski. Today Betts will call for new leadership of the local criminal justice system.

District Attorney Mark Dupree said Amaree’ya Henderson refused the officer’s commands to stop his car, which caught the officer in between the driver’s door and Henderson. Kansas law allows the use of deadly force if an officer is in danger and fears for his life, Dupree said.

KCK’s chief of police and the county district attorney are Black men. After years of police corruption, residents are hopeful — but worried — about how they'll handle a fatal police shooting.

Amaree’ya Henderson was delivering food when he was fatally shot by a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer during a traffic stop. Now, community members are calling for transparency and demanding the department release footage of the shooting.

Sir'Antonio Brown, just six years old, was shot and killed Wednesday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Gun violence has surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, according to a December report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Police say the Black family who reported the white officer’s odd behavior refused to cooperate during an internal affairs investigation. An attorney for the family says police have been driving by their house and parking across the street in an effort to scare them.

Just days into their 50th anniversary season, Worlds of Fun announced it will require any guest who is 15 years old and younger to be accompanied by an adult chaperone after 4 p.m. More than 150 unaccompanied teens were kicked out of the park because of a fight on opening day.

An investigation into systemic police corruption in Kansas City, Kansas, the podcast from KCUR Studios and the NPR Midwest Newsroom was recognized as one of the best works of investigative reporting of 2022.

A special prosecutor in St. Louis said there is insufficient evidence to file any charges against the officers who shot Johnson at a convenience store in March 2021.