Two cars were stolen from church parking lots in Leawood this month while the owners were in services. The first theft occurred on September 8 when a 2012 Hyundai Sonata was stolen ...
Read More »Today’s News Briefs: Alex Trebek; Nicaragua troops in Venezuela? Fugitive pastor
Today’s news briefs include a fugitive pastor evades 2000 police; Alex Trebek honored on postage stamp; Germany deports convicted migrants. Fugitive pastor evades 2,000 police in Philippines Police in the Philippines say ...
Read More »Topeka’s only synagogue vandalized
The only synagogue in Topeka has been vandalized with antisemitic graffiti. The Topeka Police Department and the FBI are investigating the vandalism at Temple Beth Sholom where congregants discovered “Save Gaza” and ...
Read More »Missing St. Louis residents may be part of online cult
Police in suburban St. Louis believe six people who disappeared last year may be part of an online cult. The Berkeley Police Department told “USA Today” that two children are among the ...
Read More »Area church gives presents to kids touched by violence
Christmas can be a difficult time for children whose lives have been affected by violence. On Sunday volunteers at United Believers Community Church in Kansas City gave away more than 100 presents so ...
Read More »Restoration of downtown Kansas City church disrupted by crime, slow police response
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 ...
Read More »Questions grow over police raid of small Kansas newspaper, death of elderly owner
Local police in Kansas are under scrutiny after they raided the office of the “Marion County Record” in Marion last week. Police may have illegally seized material they sought in an investigation. ...
Read More »Iran arrests more than 50 new Christian converts
More than 50 Christian converts have been arrested over the past week in a series of raids by Iranian state security services. This wave of arrests and arbitrary detentions within the Christian ...
Read More »Australian grandmother with dementia dies of injuries after police tasing
The Australian grandmother tasered by a police officer has died, heightening public outrage. Clare Nowland, who was 95 years old and suffered from dementia, was tasered May 17 by police in a ...
Read More »U.S. antisemitic incidents rose more than one-third last year, ADL audit finds
The number of recorded antisemitic incidents in the United States increased by 36 percent last, reaching the highest level since tracking began in 1979. It also follows an uptick in attacks on ...
Read More »Lori Lightfoot loses Chicago mayoral race as crime soars
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was the darling of the national media, the Obamas and the Democrat Party. She ticked all the right boxes for the left and was heralded as the first ...
Read More »Walmart to close more stores as thefts rise across nation
Walmart has announced the closure of more “underperforming” stores alluding to increasing thefts. The retail giant announced the additional closures after at least six were shuttered in 2022. The upcoming store closures ...
Read More »Memphis police video released, protests continue
Protests took place Friday night into Saturday morning in cities across the nation after body camera video was released in the killing of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers. On Thursday, ...
Read More »Police warn of Fentanyl Halloween candy this year
Parents are encouraged to be extra vigilant if their children go trick-or-treating this year because of the fentanyl crisis. From Florida to Oregon, warnings about candy are going out from law enforcement, ...
Read More »John Ashcroft defends law enforcement at Springfield event
John Ashcroft, former Missouri governor, senator and U.S. attorney general, spoke about the importance of law enforcement and the rule of law as an entity in our culture at a Back the ...
Read More »Missouri Governor signs bill increasing Kansas City police funding
Attempts to reduce the budget of the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department have backfired. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Monday signed Senate Bill 678 into law, increasing the department’s budget from at ...
Read More »Local pro-life clinics step up security in wake of growing attacks
Pro-life organizations, including women’s clinics, are increasing security in response to violent attacks after Roe v. Wade was found unconstitutional. In Missouri and Kansas, pro-life groups are working with police and scheduling ...
Read More »3 real-life inspirations for George Orwell’s 1984
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. British literary critic V. S. Pritchett could have been speaking for many in his review for ...
Read More »Kansas City police release body camera footage that refutes media reports they shot unarmed woman
Kansas City news outlets, including the Kansas City Star and local TV stations, have come under fire after they rushed to report an unarmed woman was shot by police. But there was ...
Read More »Police response about fear of “being shot” at Texas school angers parents, nation
Anger is growing across the nation after more details emerge about the law enforcement response to the Texas School shooting. At the center of the outrage is a statement from a Texas Department ...
Read More »After attacking Jews, Christians on Easter, Palestinians fight police
Israeli police continue to deal with Palestinians on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount after Muslims attacked worshippers on Passover and Easter Sunday. The violence comes after Islamic Imams preached in advance of Ramadan, that ...
Read More »Topeka bucks national trends with 25% decline in local crime
Amid national reports in 2021 of record-setting crime rates in the U.S., Topeka achieved its lowest homicide rate in five years. According to the Topeka Police Department’s 2021 year-end report, the capital city ...
Read More »Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush won’t give up defunding police
Missouri’s member of the Squad, Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis, is standing firm on her commitment to defunding the police. “I always tell [fellow Democrats], ‘If you all had fixed ...
Read More »Plumber finds envelopes full of cash behind walls of Joel Osteen’s church
A seven-year mystery of stolen tithe offerings has been solved this week by a guy fixing a toilet at Joel Osteen‘s Lakewood Church. Plumber Justin Cauley found 500 cash-filled envelopes while removing ...
Read More »‘Woke’ books targeting a much younger audience of children
“Woke books,” already a concern in school libraries, now are targeting an even younger audience. A wave of woke books about racism, same-sex parents and police brutality now can be found in ...
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