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Ralph Yarl shooting
April 20, 2023
Andrew Lester remains free after posting $20,000 and agreeing to relinquish any weapons and have no contact with Ralph Yarl…
April 17, 2023
Ralph Yarl, 16, was picking up his two brothers when he approached the wrong house. Andrew Lester came to the…
November 4, 2022
Kansas City will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who…
Kansas City church elder sentenced
November 4, 2022
Tanisha Harris left her job for lunch in 2018 and never returned. In August, husband Robert Lee Harris was convicted…
October 16, 2022
KCPD called initial reports “unfounded rumors,” which led news outlets to dismiss the community testimonies, per the Defender.
jail thegrio.com
September 23, 2022
A Missouri county has agreed to pay $405,000 to settle two lawsuits filed in a dispute that began when some…
September 20, 2022
A former Kansas police detective will be released from jail pending his trial on charges involving two accusers, a federal…
Mayor Quinton Lucas theGrio.com
August 18, 2022
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas sued the state of Missouri on Wednesday over a new law that requires the city…
August 10, 2022
A Black family says racism prompted a suburban Kansas City water park to cancel a private pool party for their…
July 4, 2022
Tenesia Brown founded Key’s Realty Group five years ago to leave a lasting legacy in the east side community she…
May 31, 2022
The eyewitness, Shédanja, says the woman told Kansas City cops she was pregnant and couldn’t lie down on the ground…
May 19, 2022
Republicans on Wednesday improved their chances of flipping the only Kansas congressional seat held by a Democrat.
March 6, 2022
Eric DeValkenaere, the former officer convicted of fatally shooting a Black man in 2019, has been sentenced to six years…
March 6, 2022
Former Kansas City police detective Eric DeValkenaere was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for fatally shooting Cameron Lamb…
February 24, 2022
Tyree Bell was 15 years old when he was arrested by Kansas City police officers and held for three weeks…
November 27, 2021
A GoFundMe campaign has raised more than $1.3 million for the exonerated Missouri man who spent decades in prison for…
November 20, 2021
Circuit court judge J. Dale Youngs convicted detective Eric J. DeValkenaere of both offenses Friday after a four-day bench trial.
November 16, 2021
Four students who were disciplined after a petition seeking to restart slavery was posted online are suing their Kansas City…
November 9, 2021
A Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for a triple murder adamantly denied having…
My’Rohn Guthrie said she and her two daughters, Royce and Ryin
October 28, 2021
Kansas mom Myrohn Guthrie said she and her daughters walked into their home to find it completely empty — down…