Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Manuel Alejandro Cardenas-Castro, 59, with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Beatriz Castro-Telles on November 28.WyCo prosecutors s... [...]
James Kraig Kahler, Columbia's former water department director, was arrested in rural Kansas yesterday and charged with capital murder in the deaths of his ex-wife Karen, 44, and daughte... [...]
Tomorrow is World Aids Day, which means it's a good day to go get yourself tested. There's plenty of free screenings, so there's no reason not to get tested if you don't know your HIV-...' [...]
When the NFL season ends, and the Chiefs put a button on three consecutive losing seasons, rookie head coach Todd Haley will surely reconsider his decision to take on the duties of offensiv... [...]
A man shot his TV in Wichita, and I gotta ask, was it Elvis? My thoughts immediately turned to The King when I heard the story. I doubt Robert Goulet was on the screen this time. The Wichit... [...]
What is it with former Kansas City pro sports players putting up great numbers as soon as they sign with other teams? In his second game since being released by the Chiefs and signing with... [...]
Not even a cross is safe from thieves. KSHB Channel 41 reports that someone stole the 5-foot-tall cross from Bob Mercer's yard in Liberty (pictured in the screen shot on the right). Mercer'...' [...]
Kansas City weather was gorgeous over the long Thanksgiving weekend -- perfect for procrastinators who still hadn't gotten around to hanging their holiday lights. Unfortunately, it looked as...' [...]
Last week's state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was
from the beginning fraught with controversy -- or what passes for
controversy among rightbloggers. First, the dinner m... [...]
The annual Border Showdown between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri was Saturday, November 28 at Arrowhead Stadium. On the field, the two rivals battled valiantly to t... [...]
Finally, back home, and what's the lead story in Sunday's Star? A piece wondering why Mayor Mark Funkhouser's wife hasn't come back to City Hall. Did I step back in time? Must have because ...' [...]
We're done giving thanks for the week, but it's hard not to be extra thankful for the time we get to spend with our families. Some aren't so lucky. It's been a little more than two w... [...]
The Rock -- the church not the wrestler -- is reclaiming the bad streets of Northeast Kansas City. Pitch fellow Casey Lyons tells the story of The Rock aka Reclaiming of Christ's Kingdom, w... [...]
Who will think of the children?"quoth Maude Flanders. Around this time of year, it's the no-fun folks at the Missouri Public Interest Research Group, who on Tuesday called a press conference..." [...]
I was at Union Station last weekend, enjoying the model trains weaving around the extensive set-up in the lobby, when I noticed some familiar faces among the exhibit's tiny populace.
Not fa... [...]
Listen up, dancers, gymnasts and circus refugees -- you have a week to rehearse your moves. Next Friday, the Kansas City Art Institute holds an open call to select 20 to 30 performers for t... [...]
Cancer patient. The phrase brings to mind a bald head and a frail body, chilly in a thin hospital gown. The loss of hair, strength and tissue can reduce anyone to the basics of skin and bo... [...]
Even if it faces stiff competition from other large, well-designed outdoor shopping malls, the Country Club Plaza still hosts the metro's most legendary holiday lighting ceremony. Our photog... [...]
Thanksgiving is over, thank God! Now, you can get back to wasting money, time and brain cells in ways that don't involve Aunt Erma. Ideas:1. Hit the Crossroads for unique Black Friday shoppi...' [...]
Like the rebel that he's always been, our friend -- and friend to the homeless -- Richard Tripp holds his big annual Thanksgiving food-and-clothing giveaway on Saturday, a couple of days a... [...]
For holiday shoppers who want to spend this Black Friday supporting their hometown economy, we offer these suggestions. And for holiday shoppers who hate Black Friday: You can order most of ... [...]
This is Sebastian. He and his friends were taking a smoke break outside the Midland Theater during the Widespread Panic show last Wednesday night. His shirt says "Menstration Station" (sic... [...]
Outside, it's rainy and there are puddles that will splash on them. Inside the Midland Theater, all manner of liquids will be spilled on them -- beer, liquor, spit, sweat. On the dance flo... [...]
A company came into Carthage, Missouri, a few years ago with a scheme to turn turkey parts into heating oil. The technology seemed so sublime that Discover magazine gave it a splash.But car... [...]
Jason Fields stands outside the old Holy Trinity Church at 9th and Norton. This is ground zero for the Rock, the subject of this week's cover story "Thank God for the Rock," and the epicente... [...]
At jam-band shows, people always ask Aaron if he has any molly. This might have something to do with the fact that he goes to neo-hippie concerts like last week's Widespread Panic show dre... [...]
So it looks like the University of Kansas is going to be in the market for a new football coach. It's not easy to identify a good person to lead a high-profile sports program. Good recruit... [...]
The man who killed museum curator and beloved Kansas Citian Greg Hawley has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to The Kansas City Star.Edward Tseona told a Jackson County... [...]
Just read on Confessions of a Social Media Mamapreneur that Kansas City native Porter Hovey won a contest for a walk-on role in Mad Men, AMC's critically acclaimed period series about the ... [...]
Another search of Burrell Mohler Sr.'s Independence home has turned up more pornography, and The Kansas City Star is reporting that some of it is "incest porn." A previous search also retu... [...]
A little over a month ago, Eric Patrick left a comfortable home on five acres and a lucrative consulting job in the Dallas Metroplex to move his wife and kids into a rundown house in Lyki... [...]
A weird random tidbit from the second-to-last paragraph of Sunday's Star story about how Congressman Emanuel Cleaver is taking a bunch of crap from conservatives for proposing that today, t... [...]
A 49-year-old Blue Springs man is charged with lewd and lascivious conduct after allegedly fondling teenage and preteen relatives while living in Vermont, according to the Burlington Free P... [...]
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Kn... [...]
When officials with Johnson County's parks and recreation started noticing stripped vegetation and sickly skinny deer in Shawnee Mission Park they did some survival math. In late 2008, th... [...]
The boyfriend of a pregnant woman who was shot and killed last week has identified the alleged shooter. The boyfriend, who was also shot and is in a hospital, picked out Calvin A. Boswell ... [...]
Former Kansas City Star gossip columnist Hearne Christopher Jr. has been charged with driving under the influence, according to police in Prairie Village. Christopher was arrested in the 3... [...]
Like a turd floating to the bottom of the toilet bowl, so sinks Mayor Mark Funkhouser's fantasy football team. Another week. Another loss -- this time 80-69, to OMG it's OKC. And another we... [...]
Kansas Jayhawks football coach Mark Mangino and athletic director Lew Perkins don't talk much anymore. That was the news out of Mangino's weekly press conference yesterday. Mangino told th...' [...]
The fight to reinstate a now notorious artist of phallic Florida and ex-teacher keeps going and going and not getting anywhere. KCTV 5 reports that parents and students demanded last night ... [...]
The list of sites for a downtown convention hotel is down to four, and Barney Allis Plaza is among the finalists.Fox 4 reports that the city cut its list of sites in half on Monday, and alth... [...]
They came, we saw, they mixed.And then, Arturo A. Vera-Felicie
of the R Bar & Restaurant and 1924 Main was named the winner of the
2009 Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition at the ... [...]
A few days each fall, dozens of volunteers give up their Saturday morning to help Tulips on Troost plant thousands of bulbs along the East Side artery. So far that sporadic engagement has se... [...]
On a recent stop at the Valero on 17th and Grand, I noticed this sign on the beer cooler. I've never thought about taking one bottle of Miller High Life and trying to barter for it, but tha...' [...]
Eric Rucker, the former chief of staff for Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, faces a complaint from Kansas' disciplinary administrator for his involvement in an alleged scheme to ident...' [...]
The church failed these children. The words went unwritten in yesterday's Kansas City Star. But the 3,400-word, front-page story about the alleged deviance of Burrell Mohler Sr., his... [...]
A fourth victim in last Friday's shooting that killed Ashley D. Thomas and her unborn baby has fingered Lionel R. Henderson as the "look out" in the shooting.
Police arrested Henderson, 25... [...]
In a bloody night of testosterone and fighting that brought The Hills' Spencer Pratt into KCK as a spectator, it didn't really work out for mixed martial artist and Independence man Rudy ... [...]
With his cast of mostly volunteer actors mingling behind him, Shane Seley had no delusions of normalcy. "We totally are weird," the founder of Wide Awake Films said with a laugh.
... [...]
We've been flooded with publicity for Sarah Palin's Going Rogue, with large book signings and subsidiary press events (like the nude photos of Palin's former son-in-law-presumptive, now ne...' [...]
Six-time Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore isn't running for re-election. The Kansas City Star says Moore is expected to issue a statement later today.Your guess is as good as mine on who Ka...' [...]
Let's pick up where we left off last week. Incest porn isn't enough to ding the Mohler family's reputation in the eyes of their friends and family. The Kansas City Star asked allies of the...' [...]
Much like the role the conservative David Brooks plays at The New York Times, Thomas Frank provides Wall Street Journal readers with a liberal perspective. In his most recent column, the a... [...]
Update (9:24 a.m. Monday, November 23): Kansas City police say the victim is 27-year-old Wilfredo M. Melgar of Kansas City, Missouri. Update II (11:16 a.m. Monday, November 23): Court do... [...]
Kansas City police say 25-year-old Ashley D. Thomas was the pregnant woman who was shot and killed Friday evening. Police found Thomas, who was nine-months pregnant, and her unnamed boyfrien... [...]
Kansas City police found the body of a man in near a retaining wall in the 4400 block of Jarboe around 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
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Police say there were no obvious signs of foul pl... [...]
Former Honeywell workers are experiencing major health problems. This week's Pitch feature, "Kansas City's Nuclear Fallout," talks to the people suffering from the after effects of exposure... [...]
Jackson County prosecutors charged Nathaniel Brown today with second-degree murder in the September 13 shooting death of 20-year-old Taylor Holman.
At about 5:30 p.m. on that September d... [...]
Macramae brings many horrible memories flooding back to me. Not this bad (allegedly), but bad nonetheless. This week, the Crap Archivist relived his own tortured memories while getting tang... [...]
A federal judge sentenced the three pea brains sexual assault scammers who cooked up -- and botched -- a scheme to defraud a local car dealership.Julie Bernet, 39, of Bacyrus, Kansas, and ... [...]
Picture the young artist, dreaming of becoming an editorial cartoonist. He's working hard: drawing for a weekly newspaper in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue, placing his pieces in a few small-... [...]
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the man convicted of murdering Ali Kemp, a 19-year-old University of Kansas student from Johnson County, in a public swimming pool pump room in 20... [...]
As we've thoroughly documented here, last night Kansas City's favorite performers gathered to declaim from Sarah Palin's new book, Amelia Bedelia Runs For Office. This time, Amelia's literal...' [...]
It looks like the K is all but announced as the site of the 2012 All-Star Game. The MLB Owner's meeting just wrapped in Chicago, and Commissioner Bud Selig hinted that Kauffman Stad... [...]
If you met mixed martial arts fighter Rudy Bears in a darkened alley, you'd probably ask for directions. Heck, he'd probably offer them.Outside the ring, the 31-year-old Independence man ... [...]
University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino is on the hot seat. KU's meter maids hate him. Former players hate him. The parents of former players hate him. Even some current players d... [...]
The big news this week is that photogenic real American Sarah Palin has kinda/sorta written a Young Adult book about why everybody should quit their jobs. But books are hard and take time ... [...]
Fox 4 reports that the mother of the alleged sexual abuse victims and a former Mormon bishop in Independence knew about the allegations of sexual abuse inside the Mohler family. Ex-b... [...]
1. Pretend it's First Friday, not the third. The Charlotte Street Foundation is sponsoring a few openings tonight, including Mythmakers at the Paragraph.2. Laugh spontaneously. The Holy C...' [...]
Neither Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II nor Jacob Turk, the Republican challenger who'd like to replace Cleaver in 2010, has taken part in the Department of Energy's Former Beryllium Worker... [...]
Fifth District Councilman Terry Riley led the resistance against Mayor Mark Funkhouser's takedown of City Manager Wayne Cauthen at City Hall on Thursday.Before the chaotic, tedious legisl... [...]
Lafayette County prosecutors released additional sordid details of alleged sexual abuse perpetrated by Burrel Mohler, Sr., Burrel Mohler, Jr. and Jared Mohler on several young members of... [...]
Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Cristian Ruiz late Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of Jose Luis Salazar-Moreno.WyCo prosecutors allege that Ruiz, 22, shot and killed ... [...]
Kansas City police issued three photos and a video today in hopes of identifying three "persons of interest" in the death of 20-year-old Maurice West. West was shot and killed near 116th a... [...]
Justin R. Bennett, 23, has been found guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the stabbing death of his Keona N. Johnson in September of last year. At the time of the ki... [...]
Isaiah Betts, a 17-year-old from KCK, has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a homeless man on April 1, according to KHSB Channel 41.Betts and 47-year-old Dwayne ... [...]
Saw this first on KMBC Channel 9. Mayor Mark Funkhouser has suspended City Manager Wayne Cauthen. Prime Buzz has Funkhouser's letter to council members about Cauthen's suspension. Here's ... [...]
Don't get hungry -- the cupcakes in the picture aren't edible. They're dissolving bath fizzies by Dirty Laundry, just one of the many local vendors showing off the goods tonight at the Ric ...' [...]
TO: Highwoods Properties, Plaza Management TeamFROM: Mr. Green and Ms. White, co-presidents, Plaza Light Bulb Installers UnitedRE: Plaza Lighting CeremonyDear Country Club Plaza Overseers: ... [...]
This is what happens during a disappointing, losing season. The Kansas Jayhawks have lost five games in a row and with Saturday's game against No. 2 Texas in Austin looming, looks like los... [...]
Kate Bornstein leans back in her chair, legs spread, teal-painted fingernails and tattooed hand partially covering the girly design on her baby-tee top. A black and white wrist cuff with ana... [...]
This week's Martin column describes neighborhood groups' frustration with Go Invest Wisely, a Utah company that gobbled up dozens of foreclosed homes in Kansas City.Last month, Legal Aid of...' [...]
A Johnson County field coordinator for Todd Tiahrt's U.S. Senate campaign resigned yesterday after KMBC Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney confronted him about allegations of aggravated sodomy a... [...]
As an interviewer and outreach manager with the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program, Walter Smith always starts out with one question: "Do you think your health was affecte..." [...]
God bless Kansas state Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook of Shawnee, who is leading the effort to secure a Kansas Health Care Freedom Amendment. Cook, who like others on the far right is afraid of a ... [...]
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Kn... [...]
Update (November 18): Now with pics!***After an early morning raid yesterday, Douglas County Sheriff's Office investigators took two men into custody on charges related to cockfighting a... [...]
Fans of Donnie Darko will remember when members of the fire department sift through motivational speaker Jim Cunningham's burnt-up house and find what's described as a "kiddie porn dungeon..." [...]
A Missouri appeals court recently took up an interesting question: Does the use of a Whizzinator constitute forgery?Robert Smothers of Moberly, Missouri, was subject to drug testing as a co... [...]
Tom Wiggans announced yesterday that he's the Democrat running for Kansas governor. Wiggans was ready. He had a folksy Web site and a YouTube video and encouraged supporters to sign up for h... [...]
Kansas City police released the victim of Monday's homicide in the 3700 block of Roberts.Police say 27-year-old Lisa M. McGuire of Versailles was the woman they found dead outside of an ap... [...]
Kansas City, Missouri, does not lack for sad-looking houses. So when the city orders one of them to be demolished, you can be certain it's a real dump.Go Invest Wisely, the subject of this ... [...]
I'll bet my Specialized that, if you ride a bike in this town, you know the name Sarah Gibson.
In fact, many have probably shared a beer in a bike-strewn parking lot -- before Critical M...' [...]
This bobblehead of oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser is amazing. Bobblehead LLC of KCMO made it for McFadden's, and if you're in need of a stocking stuffer, now you can take home you... [...]
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino poked a player in the chest during a practice, sparking the super secret internal investigation that everyone's not doing a good job of keeping secrets a... [...]
Chemical spills. Buried drums of unknown substances. Teflon poisoning. PCB drippings. Mold. These are just some of the cringe-inducing details included in a Department of Labor summary of i... [...]
Sinister portents abound, Kansas City! Normally, as rational skeptics, we'd laugh at the idea of anything unusual happening in 2012 -- a date getting a lot of attention for being the last y...' [...]
In her most calculated move against the liberal media elite to date, celebrity ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is saying heck no to letting the fourth estate into her December 2 speaking en... [...]
Yesterday, Kansas City Police Chief James Corwin announced a $8,000 grant from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's foundation to buy a new vicious, snarling, face-biting m... [...]
Mayor Mark Funkhouser's dismal outing in this week's fantasy football match up has got us asking, "What the Funk?" Again, our Vulcan mayor got spanked, this time by Results Minneapolis, 86-... [...]
