Two small airlines are protesting the price tag for the new single terminal project at Kansas City International Airport. Executives at Spirit and Allegiant airlines outlined their concerns in letters to the Kansas City Council Airport Committee, citing the $1.6 ...
Read More »Court upholds $10M judgment against Kansas City
The Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a $10.2 million judgment against Kansas City for the city’s 2010 decision to end a trash-rebate program that had been in place since the 1970s, in violation of an agreement between ...
Read More »Byrn denies defenders’ request for new judge
A judge has denied the Jackson County district defender’s request that a new judge hear her office’s concerns about public-defender caseloads. On Tuesday, Judge David M. Byrn issued an order in which he found Presiding Judge John Torrence’s September comments ...
Read More »Attorney’s role questioned in Jungerman civil case
Attorneys representing the man accused in the fatal shooting of Kansas City attorney Thomas Pickert have asked a judge to remove the lawyer appointed as receiver in a wrongful-death case brought by Pickert’s widow because he is also a Kansas ...
Read More »KC Attorney Justus returns to mayoral race
Kansas City Councilwoman Jolie Justus is back in the city’s mayoral race. Justus, a former Missouri state senator, announced Wednesday that she’s returning to a race she left earlier this year when former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander declared ...
Read More »ACLU files excessive force lawsuit over 2013 takedown
The American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a lawsuit that a Kansas City police officer used excessive force when taking a man into custody in December 2013. The suit filed Thursday against former officer Jordan Nelson seeks unspecified damages. It ...
Read More »Whereabouts of almost 1,300 sex offenders unknown
Police don’t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,300 registered sex offenders in Missouri, including hundreds who fall into the most dangerous category, according to a state audit released Monday. Missouri law requires convicted sex offenders to register their names, addresses ...
Read More »Rouse Frets and White Goss announce merger
Two Kansas City-area law firms that span the Missouri-Kansas border have announced they plan to merge, effective Sept. 30. Rouse Frets Gentile Rhodes LLC and White Goss announced the merger Friday in a press release. The combined firm’s new name ...
Read More »Developers propose $63M luxury hotel for Kansas City
Two real estate executives have proposed a $63.5 million luxury hotel for Kansas City in an effort to boost the area’s economy. Hotel Bravo would have 145 rooms and suites, a high-end restaurant and concierge areas on each floor. E.J. ...
Read More »Court affirms drug task force is subject to records law
For the first time, a Missouri appeals court has affirmed a lower-court ruling that a drug task force is subject to the state’s Sunshine Law. In an unsigned, unpublished opinion Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District affirmed a ...
Read More »Federal judges allow Missouri to enforce abortion rules
Federal appeals court judges on Monday ruled to allow Missouri to enforce some abortion restrictions that are facing legal challenges, which Planned Parenthood says could end abortions at a Columbia clinic within weeks. At issue is a lawsuit filed by ...
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