State and Region

Family, attorneys criticize prosecutor’s handling of case in Ralph Yarl’s shooting

LIBERTY, Mo. — The family of a Black Kansas City teenager who was shot by a white man after he mistakenly knocked on the man's door are frustrated with the prosecutor's handling of the case, attorneys for the family said Thursday. The complaints came after a preliminary hearing for ...

For Kansas parents, a lack of child care can mean a lack of addiction treatment

TOPEKA — Keandra Hoskins had a thing for cannabis and MDMA, or ecstasy. She also had a son. And some denial about her dependence on drugs, how she’d take a hit of something to deal with the stress about her grandmother catching COVID-19, the fact that she was homeless or that child ...

KC teen walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head

Ralph Yarl — a Black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell — walked at a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting. The 17-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was ...

U.S. Sen. Moran upset with Kansas’ last place score for internet download speed

TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran urged the U.S. Department of Commerce to rely on accurate data to target federal funding at Kansas’ last-place ranking on average internet download speed. The Kansas Republican said improving the state’s access to high-quality broadband would benefit up to ...

Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri

Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think. Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster ...