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Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza is getting a facelift. HP Village Management in Dallas has completed its purchase of the historic shopping district and plans to immediately begin renovations totaling more ...

First Baptist Blue Springs believes in feeding the flock in more ways than one. It sponsors a monthly meal for the community through its Impact Family Resource Center. “We gather around tables ...

Leaders of the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in South Kansas City are asking for help in finding their charter bus, which was stolen last weekend. “Our bus was taken,” Assistant Pastor ...

The spring hunting season has arrived in Kansas and Missouri – except people are hunting not for wild game but morel mushrooms. “It looks like we are settling in for some warmer, ...

In a historic move that’s been more than 10 years in the making, Carver Baptist Bible College, Institute, and Theological Seminary received its initial accreditation from the internationally recognized Association of Biblical ...

Families looking for something fun and educational to do can visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City for free in February. The Kansas City Royals Foundation and the team announced ...

Johnny Youssef, who has been restoring a rundown church in downtown Kansas City, said crime and homelessness would make him unlikely to do it again. “I probably wouldn’t do a project like ...

Although Jackson County voters in 2020 defeated a proposal to remove two statues of Andrew Jackson from in front of the Kansas City and Independence courthouses, county legislators refuse to take no ...

Facebook and Instagram may pull news feeds from both platforms of California users over if the state legislature passes the Journalism Preservation Act. Meta in a statement May 31 laid out its ...

The long-awaited NFL Draft in Kansas City will begin on Thursday evening and continue through Saturday Over the last decade, the draft has evolved from a low-key affair to what is called the ...

Independence residents are pitching in to help a 93-year-old Korean War veteran whose car was stolen by a young person who pretended to be interested in buying it. “It was a gut ...

Federal authorities have shut down a Missouri-based healthcare ministry after it was accused of committing a $4 million fraud. Medical Cost Sharing Inc., based in St. Joseph, appeared to be a legitimate ...

Kansans for Life and Catholic leaders are responding to the pro-abortion attack on a local church over the weekend. The Catholic Church of the Ascension in Overland Park was vandalized early Sunday ...

The Kansas City Chiefs were not the only winner in last Sunday’s playoff game against the Buffalo Bills. Fans have donated more than $250,000 to a Buffalo children’s hospital in honor of ...

Americans’ trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four percentage points since last year to 36 percent, according to a new Gallup poll. A ...

“I forgave the man who shot me,” Anthony White recalls of his chance encounter with the attacker who two years earlier had pulled the trigger. It was 2002 and White was walking ...

On the day two deputy sheriffs were ambushed in Los Angeles, marchers turned out in Kansas City to show their support for law enforcement. About 140 people participated in the We Back ...

Pastors in the inner city continue to pray against violence as the murder toll climbs in Kansas City. Two more people were shot and killed over the July 4 weekend as the ...

Bishop Daniel Jordan, founder and pastor of the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ in Kansas City, knows how to fight the good fight. He finally has overcome COVID-19, which he had ...

A Chick-fil-A restaurant is finding that serving others during the coronavirus outbreak is not just the right thing to do – it also is good for business. “With nice days like today, ...

City Union Mission will become a four-star restaurant Tuesday with a little help from some famous local chefs. On March 24, Michael Smith and his team from the Farina and Extra Virgin restaurants will prepare a ...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has made reducing violent crime his top priority for 2020. He and the city council this week announced a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer for ignoring what ...

Some things are more important than football to Chiefs’ quarterback Patrick Mahomes. That’s why in every game this season, he wore a bracelet that was given to him by Whitney Wells, a ...