Kansas City Missouri Police

COVID-19 means uncertainty for Missouri’s state budget and for the legislative session itself.

A look ahead at the issues most likely to be facing lawmakers in the Show Me state, and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce reveals what it wants the state legislature to focus on this year.

The number of fatal crashes in Kansas City involving marijuana has doubled in the last two years. Kansas City police are worried that a de-emphasis on marijuana possession enforcement could keep the number high.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker dismissed 31 counts against a towing company owner after audio surfaced of Brad Lemon, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, threatening criminal action if a family car wasn't immediately released.

With police departments under scrutiny for their relationship with Black Americans, Kansas City, Missouri's police force has a dismal diversity record, especially in its investigative units.

The board abruptly went into closed session after some clergy members called for a vote on Smith’s termination. Civil rights groups have been calling for Smith’s termination since his handling of protests against police brutality in June.

The officer is charged with using excessive force against the teenager, who pleaded ‘I can’t breathe.’

Community leaders say violent crime is a “public health crisis” as Kansas City faces its deadliest year on record.

Theresa Taylor was arrested during a June 1 protest, one of hundreds across the country provoked by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police.

Black Rainbow is one of the Kansas City, Missouri groups organizing the current protest, after a video of Kansas City police arresting a pregnant woman circulated online.

The co-founder of a new Kansas City organization on why protesters are camped out at city hall, Missouri voters face two big issues on the November ballot, and how listening to an opera a day changed one Kansas Citian.

A cluster of tents set up along the sidewalk in front of police headquarters downtown were used by protesters who pledged to remain until Chief Rick Smith resigns and the officer who arrested the pregnant woman is fired.