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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday.Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said on Friday that Missouri Gov. Mike Parson used a racial "dog whistle" when the governor said "thugs" were responsible for the shooting. He made the comments while speaking to KCUR host Steve Kraske on the radio program "Up to Date." “I certainly do think this was criminal activity, it’s lawlessness and I think that that’s troubling,” Lucas told Kraske when the radio host asked about the governor's comments. “But ‘thugs’ is a dog whistle in the most classic sense and I have seen this dog whistle time and again.” A "dog whistle" when referred...

Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on a great game and a fantastic comeback under immense pressure. We are proud of you and the Great State of Missouri. You are true Champions!

A KMBC 9 News photojournalist's camera caught someone using what appears to be a laser pointer directed at Tom Brady's face during Sunday night’s AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium. The first instance caught on camera was on a hand-off from Tom Brady to Sony Michel in the fourth quarter. The previous play was a punt that appeared to be muffed by Patriots' receiver Julian Edelman but was later overturned. Laser researcher Charles Cobb, DDS, MS, PhD., said based on the size of the spot, it looks like the person was sitting far back in the end zone, possibly in...

On Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium, a short walk across the parking lot from Kauffman Stadium, the younger Mahomes, who has had one of the greatest seasons by a quarterback in NFL history, will lead the Kansas City Chiefs against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game.

Police have arrested a man named Fredrick Demond Scott, a suspect in a years-long series of at least five murders in the Kansas City area.   However, a long time before this arrest investigative Journalist and best-selling author Jack Cashill was on the trail of the killings and noting a pattern.  All of the victims were white males, and all followed a specific pattern within the geography.

The Kansas City Royals’ star pitcher reportedly died in a car crash today. Yordano Ventura, a 25-year-old starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, reportedly died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic today. Cristian Moreno, a bilingual sports journalist for ESPN, confirmed the news on Twitter. He says the Dominican police force confirmed the accident and tragic death.

Online the shooter called himself Cosmo Setepenta, and more than a week before he killed three police officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., he told a YouTube audience he didn't want to be associated with organized groups in case something happened to him."I'm affiliated with the spirit of justice: nothing else, nothing more, nothing less," he said in the clip.Cosmo Setepentra's real name was Gavin Eugene Long, and he was from KansasCity. (Missouri) As the nation took in yet another horrific murderous rampage, public records,social media and recollections from former classmates paint a picture of a puzzling personality.He was a...

Some updates on the awful killing of 3 police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The deceased suspect has been identified as Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri:

A woman in the midst of the protests outside the rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump on March 12 was arrested on Friday for abuse of a police service animal. According to a police report, an officer mounted on horseback was involved in police crowd control outside the Midland Theatre when protesters began moving into the street and blocking traffic, approaching officers on foot. After police verbally instructed the protesters back onto the sidewalk, the crowd continued moving forward and mounted officers moved into position to block the crowd. Police said that’s when the suspect, April J. Foster, 29, approached...

There has been much talk about how "progressives" do not believe in individual responsibility.  There is the stereotype that liberals attribute volitional powers to firearms, that firearms cause violence.   In anticipation of the veto override  of SB656 in Missouri, Mayor Sly James gave a speech in Kansas City, MO. The transcript from fox4kc.com shows: Violence, the mayor says is committed by guns. I listened to the video of the speech.  That sentence is not recorded from Mayor James, but is reported as being said by Kerri Stowell of Fox4news.  As I heard it , she said that Mayor James...

Paul Kevin Curtis, suspected of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and other public officials, was released on bond today, a day after a court hearing in which investigators said they found no evidence of the poison in Curtis' home or car. The U.S. Marshals office in Oxford, Miss., confirmed that Curtis had been released from jail, where he had been kept since last week on formal charges of sending threats through the mail. … Curtis was formally charged last week with sending mail that contained a threat to kill or harm the president and with sending mail containing a...

By Pete Williams, Kristen Welker and Erin McClam, NBC News Federal agents on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the mailing of letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator that initially tested positive for the poison ricin. The suspect was identified as Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo, Miss., federal officials told NBC News. Both letters carried an identical closing statement, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by NBC News on Wednesday. According to the FBI bulletin, both letters, postmarked April 8, 2013 out of Memphis, Tenn., included an identical phrase, "to see a wrong and not expose it, is to...

Heckler Upstages Kansas City Mayor Sly James During Speech Read more: http://www.ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html?article=11087244#ixzz2O73IfYmt Video at link

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After a boisterous three-day congress here, more than 600 leaders of a national movement of young immigrants living in the country without legal papers voted to expand beyond their past demands for citizenship for young people, and to mobilize in support of a bill to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.The leaders of the United We Dream network, the largest organization of youths here illegally, decided to push President Obama and Congress next year for legislation to open a path to citizenship for them and their families. The move will increase pressure on...

...The Kansas City Fed's manufacturing composite index increased to 6 in September from 3 in August. Readings above zero indicate expansion... The rest of the story from the KC Fed: The production index rose from -2 to 3, and the shipments, new orders, and order backlog indexes also edged up. The employment index increased for the second straight month, but the new orders for exports index fell slightly after rising last month. Both inventory indexes increased somewhat. The shipments, order backlog, and new orders for exports indexes all rose slightly, and the capital expenditures index increased to its highest level...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A Missouri kindergartner brought his mother's crack pipe and an ounce of drugs to his school's show-and-tell day, police said. The children had been told to bring important family items to class at the Sweet Springs school, and school officials called police when the child produced the pipe and several baggies of drugs from his backpack, KCTV, Kansas City, reported Monday. Police said the child's mother, Michelle Marie Cheatham, 32, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance and one count of first-degree child endangerment. Police Chief Richard Downing said a child...

Missourians for Conservative Values PAC(MCVPAC) is hosting a dinner to roast (and toast) Chris Stigall, former host of The Morning Show on 710KCMO. The event will be held at Tiffany greens Golf Club (near KCI airport) on July 30, 2011, 5:30 PM. Stigall left Kansas City for Philadelphia where he continues his show on WPHT. MCVPAC is bringing Stigall back to Kansas City for one night only when his friends (many known to listeners of his show) will get a chance to "go at him" ... then he gets to return the honor. Roasters will include political strategist Jeff Roe;...

TOPEKA — A handful of Tea Party activists from various states gathered on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse this afternoon to announce Freedom Fest 2011 — an event billed as the National Tea Party's candidate nominating convention, slated for Oct. 5-9 in Kansas City, Kan. Organizers said the convention would be like "a Tea Party Woodstock." But without all the "hippies, drugs and trash." The activists were greeted by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and State Rep. TerriLois Gregory, R-Baldwin City.