obituaries

A former Chiefs' center remembers what it meant to play for coach Marty Schottenheimer, practical advice for driving on icy roads from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, and a new anthology of LGBTQ voices from across the Midwest in 'Sweeter Voices Still'.

Rev. Wallace S. Hartsfield Sr., a spiritual and civil rights leader in Kansas City for more than 40 years, died Thursday. He was 90.Hartsfield served as…

Segment 1: He came to Kansas City as the youngest concertmaster in the country in the 1950s; he died this year, leaving a poweful legacy behind.Before…

Former Missouri state lawmaker and educator Yvonne S. Wilson died Monday. The 90-year-old Democrat from Kansas City was remembered by many as a community…

Segment 1: Kansas City mourns the death of second major philanthropist in a week. Morton Sosland, who rose to run the publishing company that bears his…

Segment 1: Kansas City mourns the death of philanthropist Henry Bloch.Henry Bloch, co-founder of the tax preparation firm H&R Block and World War II…

Henry W. Bloch died Tuesday at the age of 96. A notable philanthropist, Bloch and his brother, Richard, co-founded the tax preparation business H&R Block…

Segment 1: After a failed gas tax proposal, how does the Missouri Department of Transportation continue to keep roads and bridges safe?Voters this month…

For Mike McGraw, it was always about the story, never about his ego.He was a relentless truth teller, a reporter who, once having latched on to a subject,…

Editors note: This story was updated at 10:35 A.M. Wednesday with comments from Irv Hockaday.Laura Rollins Hockaday died Tuesday at St. Luke's Hospital.…

Philanthropist, trucking industry magnate, and art collector Jerry Nerman died Tuesday morning at the age of 97 after a bout with pneumonia. As his son…

The redoubtable conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, who led a movement that for decades successfully thwarted liberal and feminist causes, including...