About 50 people gathered to mourn Leo Cruz-Silva, who died by suicide in a jail in Ste. Genevieve last week while being detained by ICE. His was the second reported suicide in ICE custody in Missouri this year.

Las mujeres que ingresan al juzgado del condado de Wyandotte, en Kansas City, Kansas, afirman que sus sostenes con varillas activan los detectores de metales hipersensibles y que, inmediatamente, son inspeccionadas a la fuerza por agentes femeninas. La oficina del sheriff afirma que se trata de una medida para proteger el juzgado.

Deep Fission is a fledgling startup that says it can help tech companies meet the "explosive demand" for more energy to power artificial intelligence. It's one of two nuclear companies that have announced plans related to Kansas in the past month.

Based in Garden City, Kansas, High Plains Public Radio is the only public radio station serving the five-state, mostly rural High Plains region. After Congress cut $1 billion to public broadcasting, its founders say a grant to create a brand-new network for local news and information arrived with serendipitous timing.

Only Missouri and Indiana allow judges to impose capital punishment when a jury can't decide whether to sentence a defendant to death. Lance Shockley is scheduled to be executed next week for a 2005 murder he maintains he did not commit.

A Lenexa police officer shot and killed Jose Enrique Cartagena Chacon while he was sitting inside a parked car at an apartment complex on June 22.

The arrests of the workers at El Potro Mexican Café in February were among the first in the Kansas City area to draw widespread media attention. Immigration attorneys sued the Trump administration for making arrests without a warrant.

Staff cuts, the closure of regional printing presses and cuts to printed editions characterize Lee Enterprises as it tries to expand its digital subscriber base while keeping existing print customers and advertisers on board.

Women entering the Wyandotte County Courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas, say their underwire bras are triggering hypersensitive metal detectors, and they are then forcibly patted down by female deputies. The sheriff’s office says it’s protecting the courthouse.

An affidavit outlines the events leading up to Charles Adair’s death and the KBI investigation that followed. Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fatherley is charged with second-degree murder.

Leo Cruz-Silva, 34, was arrested for public intoxication and died by apparent suicide after just one day at an ICE detention center in Ste. Genevieve. He is at least the 15th ICE detainee death nationwide, and the second in Missouri this year.

Joshua Rocha, 28, was convicted of first-degree murder by the same jury last week in the fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Vasquez. It is the first time Clay County prosecutors have asked for the death penalty since 1988.