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Kansas City is known for a lot of things, from barbecue to jazz. Here are some of our region's lesser-known points of hometown pride.
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Juneteenth, which traditionally marks the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, was declared a federal holiday in 2021. Food traditions have grown with the holiday, and there are plenty of ways to honor Juneteenth with Kansas City chefs and restaurants.
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Most recently, the Lenexa, Kansas-based humanitarian aid organization sent $15 million in medical supplies to a warehouse in Slovakia, where a local organization will deliver it across the border to Ukraine.
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The board will advise Lenexa Police on issues like potential bias in policing, use of force, and responses to mental health crises. Its formation comes at a time when police agencies in Johnson County and beyond are facing calls for more transparency and public engagement.
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Chiropractors have become major purveyors of misinformation about COVID treatments and have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-vaccine events.
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There’s a sort of food that just seems right this time of year, as nights grow cool but the days are still warm. KCUR's food critics have great suggestions for the in-between.
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Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said officers were justified in the shooting because they believed the man would have harmed a woman in his hotel room.
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Everyone deserves a safe place to swim, but we live in a region of pool haves and have-nots: This summer there are zero public pools open in Kansas City, Kansas, while Lenexa has three pools for a third of the population.
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Even though Johnson County no longer requires masks to be worn in public, local police departments maintain that reaching a peaceful resolution is preferable to arrests and charges.
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The felony charges respectively carry maximum prison sentences of 30 years and three years in prison.
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In some of Johnson County's biggest cities, the increase in the number of stolen vehicles from 2019 to 2020 was over 40%. Police remain unsure about the reason but think the dramatic increase may be tied to the pandemic and economic troubles.
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COVID-19 has killed more than 80,000 Americans over the age of 85. Efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus in nursing homes have cut off many victims from their families.