Ian Cummings

A 58-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced Monday to five years and 10 months in federal prison for a 2016 bank robbery in Leawood.

The search for a man wanted in the murder of a Clinton, Mo., police officer continued Tuesday afternoon after the search of a home in Chilhowee, Mo., came up empty.

Before he was charged with murder in the shooting of a Clinton, Mo., police officer, 39-year-old Ian James McCarthy lived a largely solitary life marked with long periods of unemployment, run-ins with the law and violence.

Kansas City librarian Steve Woolfolk has received a national award and been put on trial for the same act: trying to stop police from arresting a library patron.

For eight months, while Randy Potter remained missing this year, his family and friends searched for him high and low. They even hired a private investigator to find him.

Tammy Widger, after more than two weeks in a Henry County jail and facing a felony murder charge in the shooting death of a police officer, still does not have a lawyer.

A searchable map created from city data shows potholes reported to the city’s 311 system in a 30-day period.

How many potholes are in your neighborhood? This map shows 2,000 in Kansas City

“The heat and the humidity will be back late in the day as we climb back into the mid and upper 80s,” said Ritter, who provides weather updates to The Star.

At this longtime Kansas City Italian place, The Star’s Ian Cummings takes a light summer pasta and makes it — well, a little less light. (Sausage and meatball: Mmmmm.)