A former federal prosecutor and current executive in a company that invests in the legal marijuana industry this week launched his campaign in Kansas as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. Kansas City-area attorney Barry Grissom’s kickoff came three ...

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The night of his high school graduation, Daniel Edwards and his friends looked out at Kansas City from a fourth-floor window at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy on 21st and Woodland. They could see vacant property in every direction, and as ...

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The parents of a slain Kansas City man are suing the manufacturer of the weapon used in the shooting and the dealer accused of selling it to a former fire captain who is charged in federal court with knowingly supplying ...

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Some U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers are reluctant to move across the country to the Kansas City area when two research agencies move there. The USDA announced plans earlier this month to move the Economic Research Service and National Institute ...

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A 34-year-old black man whose family was homeless at times during his childhood in Kansas City will become the city’s 55th mayor. Voters this week chose Quinton Lucas over fellow City Council member Jolie Justus in a mayoral runoff, according ...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week that it will relocate two research agencies’ headquarters to the Kansas City area, delighting Kansas and Missouri officials but intensifying critics’ fears that research will suffer and be less accessible to federal ...

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A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east ...

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The city of Kansas City has settled a discrimination case with a longtime employee.

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Dan Cofran had a very good week. Cofran, a lawyer in Kansas City, has been the public face of two of the city’s hottest issues: whether law firm Polsinelli Shughart should build its headquarters on the Country Club Plaza, and whether voters should retain the city’s earnings tax. Cofran opposed the former and supported the latter. He sees no conflict in those positions, though others would beg to differ.

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The city of Kansas City got hit again with a verdict of more than a million dollars, this time for a fatal traffic accident that the victim’s relatives said was partly due to a poorly designed and maintained traffic signal.

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Among other issues, the Kansas City mayoral debate (pictured left) focused on what the city can do to compete with Kansas economic incentives that are raiding Missouri-side businesses and possible consequences of eliminating the city’s earnings taxes.

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