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KC Mothers In Charge is a coalition of mothers whose children have died by homicide that works to reduce violent crime. The tight-knit group understands what each other is going through — and help each other celebrate despite tragic loss.
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In what it calls a crisis, the Violence Policy Center’s new study says Black Missourians are killed at more than twice the national rate for the Black community, and 94% are killed by guns. It's the seventh year in a row that Missouri has ranked as the highest Black homicide rate in the country.
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A judge in St. Louis ruled on Tuesday that Lamar Johnson should be freed after two people provided testimony that absolved Johnson in the 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd.
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Kansas City's new crime prevention program, Partners for Peace, brings together social service providers and local law enforcement with the hopes of reducing the city's homicide rate.
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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says that millions of dollars in revenue could be generated if voters in April approve taxes on recreational marijuana and short-term rentals. But how would that money be used?
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A hearing for two men convicted of a 1997 murder once again focuses on whether Roger Golubski coerced a witness into falsely testifying and whether he fed crucial information to the victim’s family.
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The 14-year-old was one of six teens charged in the death of 19-year-old Marco Cardino, in what appears to have been a marijuana deal gone awry at Black Bob Park.
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Six juveniles are facing felony murder charges after a killing in Black Bob Park in Olathe. The Johnson County district attorney is seeking to try four of them — all 14-years old — as adults, an exceedingly uncommon occurrence in Kansas.
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Six teens are facing felony murder charges after a killing in Black Bob Park in Olathe. The Johnson County District Attorney is seeking to try four of them as adults — but in Kansas, it’s exceedingly uncommon for 14-year-olds to be prosecuted as adults.
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Over the course of a few months in 2002, nine patients at a hospital in Chillicothe, Missouri, died under unexplained circumstances. Now, a prosecutor has charged a former hospital employee with murdering one of them.
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El 25 de abril, un año después de que fuera asesinada a tiros, KCUR recuerda a la reportera Aviva Okeson-Haberman. Como en muchos casos de homicidio en Kansas City, nadie ha sido acusado de su muerte.
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La organización sin fines de lucro Common Good de KC ofrece subsidios a las víctimas del crimen de delitos para ayudar a las familias a hacer frente a los gastos funerarios. El dinero procede de un fondo de $250.000 dólares recaudados por donadores anónimos