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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said the city was weighing its options, including appealing the ruling.

The report says 978 children went missing from foster care in the state in 2019.

A protest at Mill Creek Park was one of hundreds of Women’s Marches taking place across the country on Saturday, just days ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term.

After three board trustees posted disapproving comments on Facebook about a library display during Banned Books Week, some current and former employees want to see them dropped from leadership.

As presiding judge of the Jackson County Court, Harry Truman pushed through a bond issue in 1928 that led to the construction of Rural Jackson County Emergency Hospital on a one-time farm the court purchased in the mid-1800s for $1,000.

Kevin Strickland has spent more than 43 years in prison for a crime prosecutors now say he did not commit. Judges in the court that convicted him have now been recused, and a new judge appointed.

A Boone County Circuit Court judge also rejected Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s effort to sue more than one school at once.

Two business groups made recommendations, including independent investigations of excessive force cases. Police Chief Rick Smith had no comment but complained that his staffing levels will soon be the lowest in 25 years.

City officials and community members are grappling with the complicated matter of housing the homeless population as winter rapidly approaches.

The Kansas City Health Department says case numbers have decreased since the city reissued its mask mandate, but it's "not out of the woods yet."

Local resettlement agencies expect hundreds of refugees to arrive in the next few months. Engoma Fataki, once a refugee himself, is an interpreter who will help students from a dozen different countries when they attend the Global Academy at the International Welcome Center.

To honor missing and murdered Indigenous people, a group of Native American advocates is making a months-long trip across the country on foot and by bike.