Glenn E. Rice

Helen T. Gray, The Star’s first Black female reporter, covered civil rights and the Kansas City riots of 1968 before holding the post of faith and religion editor. She died Saturday at 81.

The former assistant division chief who filed the lawsuit said she was never treated with respect and that firefighters harassed her for speaking out about “psychologically unbearable” conditions.

A former Kansas City police officer convicted in the shooting death of Cameron Lamb is seeking to be released again, a day after he was jailed with the failure of his appeal in a state court.

Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, says his newspaper had investigated the background of the town’s new police chief from Kansas City. Then his paper was shut down by a police raid.

The group pointed to millions paid out from excessive force lawsuits, the police department’s failure to investigate missing Black residents and the slowness of police to arrest the white man who shot Ralph Yarl.

On Monday, the Clay County prosecutor said double jeopardy prevented a hate crime charge in the Ralph Yarl shooting. Here’s what experts say about the case.

In December, a former assistant general counsel sent a letter alleging that Holly Dodge had closed records that should be available to the public under Missouri’s open records law.

In closing arguments Thursday, Jackson County prosecutors sought to paint a picture of David G. Jungerman as someone who is “twisted,” and “someone with ice water in their veins.”

“I think the jury was trying to send a message to Jackson County. They shouldn’t try to wreck someone’s career who’s standing up against blatantly ageist comments against people with disabilities.”

The Board of Police Commissioners controls who is appointed as head of the police department.