Charles Adair, 50, was killed by “mechanical asphyxia,” which was ruled a homicide. A county coroner’s report obtained by KCUR reveals that during an altercation, a deputy knelt on Adair’s back.

Joining anti-Trump rallies across the country on Labor Day, workers, civil rights advocates and ordinary citizens gathered at Mill Creek Park Fountain on the Plaza. The Kansas City protests took aim at the president’s effort to maintain Republican control of Congress by altering blue districts to favor his party.

Officer Hunter Simoncic, 26, is the second line-of-duty death in Wyandotte County in a month. A 31-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, vehicular homicide and other alleg...

Rodriguez brings more than a decade of experience to the organization's top journalism role. Starting her career as a KCUR intern, Rodriguez has served as news director for the last five years.

District Attorney Mark Dupree said he saw Golubski’s body, and the “evidence is clear” that the former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective killed himself. Dupree also defended his long-troubled conv...

Lowe was honored with KFF Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith for their series, The Injured, which follows the survivors of the mass shooting at the 2024 Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade.

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Braisen Cain, 42, is the city’s 18th victim of intimate partner violence so far this year, a significant increase from last year. Experts say cases are growing more violent, with survivors reporting a...

NPR and PBS member stations with smaller budgets will struggle to stay on the air if Congress nixes current funding, public media executives warn.

Since the 1960s, studies have shown that heavy-handed policing and militarized responses tend to make protests more volatile — not less.

Three mothers who were shot, along with their children, filed the lawsuit in Jackson County Court, saying “systemic failures” by the firearms sellers, the city, Union Station and the Greater Kansas Ci...

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation death report, obtained by KCUR through an open records request, reveals a despondent Golubski with an untraceable firearm, preparing to dodge his trial on federal ch...

For years the 148-bed detention center, owned and operated by the county, has been a major source of revenue.

A federal judge said Missourians living in poverty "have gone hungry" due to bureaucratic hurdles that the state has failed to address.

A Kansas City resident, Zeskind began studying the white nationalist movement more than 40 years ago and published his findings in his 2009 book, “Blood and Politics.” His work showed uncanny foresigh...

The Trump administration’s promised deportations have private prison operator CoreCivic moving to use the inactive Kansas facility to house federal detainees. Some former employees and immigrant right...

The AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced its board of directors and a local newsroom pilot program in which it will work with nearly 50 nonprofit

A surveillance video of Brady being shot point-blank in the parking lot of his Brookside restaurant last year was shown at a juvenile court hearing Tuesday. Brady’s family was watching via webcam from...

So far this year, Kansas City has recorded 12 homicides related to domestic violence – which was the total attributed to the problem last year. There wasn’t a single contributing factor, but Mayor Qui...

Kansas City voters will decide on April 8 whether to renew the public safety sales tax for 20 more years. Officials plan to use the bulk of the money to build a new municipal detention center. Despite...

The St. Louis Police Department will be governed by a state board instead of local officials under a bill signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe.