By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Jannette Berkley-Patton remembers a time before tweets, blogs and Facebook posts when many African-Americans got their community news and political updates… Read more »
Tag: Kansas City
Maya Lin sculpture headed to KC’s Nelson-Atkins
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is preparing to install a Missouri River sculpture by architectural designer Maya Lin. The museum says in a release… Read more »
Ex-death row inmate exonerated in prison stabbing
By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Three decades after being sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate, Reggie Griffin is officially a free man… Read more »
Reward in unsolved KC murder grows to $4,000
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The reward for information in the shooting death of a Kansas City man has increased to $4,000. Investigators are asking for the public’s help in… Read more »
New $15M penguin exhibit opens at KC Zoo
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A new $15 million penguin exhibit is opening its doors at the Kansas City Zoo. KCTV reports that visitors can see the tuxedo-clad animals starting Friday…. Read more »
Kansas City schools remain unaccredited
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City’s public schools haven’t seen sufficient or long enough improvement to upgrade its accreditation, Missouri’s State Board of Education president said… Read more »
Consultants for KC schools temper expectations
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The consultants hired by Missouri to recommend ways of improving Kansas City schools are tempering expectations — noting that improvement is… Read more »
UCM prof. sets knitting record in KC Marathon
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A University of Central Missouri graphic design professor has knitted his way into the record books while running the Kansas City Marathon. The Kansas City… Read more »
Belgians buying Boulevard Brewing
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — One of America’s largest craft beer makers, Kansas City-based Boulevard Brewing, is being sold to Belgian brewer Duvel Moortgat. Boulevard founder John McDonald says in… Read more »
Nelson-Atkins Museum receives Picasso photos
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has received 161 photos from acclaimed photographer David Douglas Duncan, including 159 of artist Pablo Picasso. Duncan,… Read more »