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Former Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Office director Andrea Dorch left the office after raising concerns about Kansas City's deal with Meta to build a data center in the Northland. Kansas City settled a lawsuit she filed alongside a $400,000 settlement for a 2022 crash involving a city fire truck.

The head of the state clerks association says local election officials still lack access to the voter database needed to finalize new district assignments.

A Cole County judge is being asked to block the measure from the ballot or rewrite its summary for voters.

After a Missouri Supreme Court decision Tuesday, the group People Not Politicians is urging Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to make a decision on whether its referendum on the 2025 congressional map will make the November 2026 ballot.

The Independence Police Department internal affairs commander says the city discriminated against older officers and looked the other way on deputy chiefs’ drunken driving incidents.

The lawsuit, against the police board and an officer, alleges excessive force, among other claims.

A Kansas City, Kansas, woman filed whistleblower and civil rights claims against the housing authority, saying employees misused federal funds in exchange for tenants’ food stamps. The scheme preyed upon “the most vulnerable” residents, the lawsuit says.

The Sun Fresh Market at Linwood Shopping Center closed in August due to increasing issues with crime and a lack of customers. The lawsuit alleges Kansas City undermined and neglected the store, which caused it to close.

Legal settlements paid by the Kansas City Police Department for fatal shootings and other excessive force cases are among the reasons Chief Stacey Graves has called for “drastic” cuts. The mayor and city council will soon attempt to take back some control of the purse strings.

The lawsuit was filed in Texas by Dacoda Jones, Rice's longtime partner and the mother of their two children. She alleges Rice injured her neck, back and face and caused permanent damage.

Since Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed into law a new congressional map that splits Kansas City into three districts, with the goal of ousting Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II from office, a handful of lawsuits and hundreds of thousands of petition signatures have been submitted in opposition. Two of those cases will be heard in court this week.

Kansas Legislature's leaders and elected state officers challenge Gov. Laura Kelly's perspective. The governor claims constitutional authority to "stand up for Kansans." The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 16.