Savannah Hawley-Bates
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Kansas City ends a construction equality program. Business owners want a say on a new one (opens the original)
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For decades, Kansas City had a program to award a share of its contracting dollars to businesses owned by women or racial minorities. The program was an effort to ensure equity in the city’s contracting, but Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is calling it discriminatory. The Kansas City Council decided Thursday to remove its longstanding Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program after a lawsuit from Hanaway, a Republican, alleged the program violates the equal protec
Kansas City officials delay Royals stadium decision, while giving out little info about funding plan (opens the original)
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Kansas City was supposed to take the first step Tuesday toward building and funding a downtown Royals stadium. Instead, a city council committee postponed the ordinances that critics said appeared to be getting fast-tracked. The plan would give $20 million toward a downtown Royals ballpark and direct the city manager to finalize agreements with the Royals, developers and incentive agencies to build the stadium. It would also rezone the Crown Center area for a ballpark district. Critics — includi
Rep. Mark Alford secures Missouri 4th District primary victory, will face Democrat Jordan Herrera (opens the original)
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Voters in Missouri’s newly redrawn 4th Congressional District, which now includes Kansas City west of Troost Avenue, have decided on their candidates for the general election. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Alford won the Republican primary with more than 77% of the vote, according to complete but unofficial results. He’ll face Democratic challenger Jordan Herrera, who won 30% of the vote in a crowded primary against six other candidates, in November. “We are the underdogs going into the general,” Her
Independence police officer who killed mom and baby is suing city over his return to duty (opens the original)
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An Independence cop who shot and killed a 12-week-old baby and her mother is now suing the city. Officer Jordan White shot and killed 34-year-old Maria Pike and her daughter, Destinii Hope, four times while he was responding to a domestic disturbance call at an Independence apartment complex in November 2024. Highly edited body camera footage showed Pike holding Destinii as officers spoke to her. Police said Pike grabbed a butcher knife from a nightstand, raised it over her head and moved toward
Kansas City will pay to repair troubled apartment complex that landlord ignored for years (opens the original)
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Kansas City will step in to repair an apartment complex that has forced nine tenants and their families into homelessness and left others living in dangerous conditions. The troubled complex off North Lawn Avenue in Kansas City’s Indian Mound neighborhood has been without electricity for more than a month, leaving multiple units without air conditioning during dangerously hot heat. Tenants have been dealing with power outages, as well as raw sewage in the basement, insect and rodent infestations
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