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Around the Kansas City region, living history museums like Missouri Town and Shawnee Town reveal how people lived in earlier eras, with collections of historic buildings, demonstrations of period crafts, and stories of the people who lived there.
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Christina Sanabria didn't think she'd have a career in performing arts. The Johnson County native recently won her second Grammy for children's music as part of the duo 123 Andrés, whose album "We Grow Together Preschool Songs" won Best Children’s Album of the Year.
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The Kansas City region is shining bright once again in the national food competition. The Town Company, The Campground, Affäre, Chewology and Westport Cafe have been named among the best restaurants in the country this year.
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More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the air.
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Halley Vincent, a freshman at Shawnee Mission North, recently opened Seven Stories book shop with her mom in downtown Shawnee, Kansas. Vincent is now the youngest member of the American Booksellers Association, an organization of independent booksellers.
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The council voted unanimously 7-0 to terminate Gerber’s employment with cause. His firing comes after nearly two weeks of controversy for the city sparked by the revelation that someone had sent a sexually explicit video of Gerber to some city staffers, an incident that apparently was not reported to elected city leaders.
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Kansas City, Missouri, had several ballot questions to vote on — including a sales tax that could determine the future of the public bus system. Cities across Johnson and Wyandotte county also chose winners in local council, mayor, school board and other consequential races.
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7! While Kansas City, Missouri, has no candidates on the ballot, voters will have several important questions to answer. In Johnson and Wyandotte counties, voters will have all kinds of local council, mayor, school board and other races to decide.
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Tomorrow is Election Day, and Kansas cities and counties have some big decisions to make. We’ll find out what and who’s on the ballot and how voters will be shaping the futures of Johnson and Wyandotte Counties.
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Shawnee, Kansas goes to the polls next Tuesday amid culture wars, lawsuits, and a sexting scandal. Plus: A new choral work commissioned by William Jewell College is helping the institution own up to its fraught racial history.
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Multiple Shawnee city employees reportedly received an email containing a video of City Manager Doug Gerber masturbating. The anonymous sender, a third party outside of city hall, told the Kansas City Star they “wanted to reveal Gerber’s online behavior.”
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Reports of a sexting video featuring the city manager are the latest upheaval in Shawnee, where dozens of city employees have left their jobs in the past two years. “I think it’s directly tied to partisan agendas,” said one city council candidate.