Saw this on KMBC: The White House released a statement from President Barack Obama late Sunday afternoon.”I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.” Categories: News Tags: abortion,…
A suspect has been arrested in the killing of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, the Wichita Eagle reports. From the Eagle: Authorities have yet to release more information about the arrest. Wichita police have scheduled a 4 p.m. news conference to discuss the case. From KSHB Channel 41: Police in Gardner stopped a car that matched the suspect’s vehicle description….
Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was shot and killed as he walked into church this morning, the Wichita Eagle reports. From the Eagle: Tiller was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses and a police source confirmed Tiller was the victim. No information has been…
Mayor Mark Funkhouser released this statement Saturday night on the results of the recall effort: Every day since I have been elected has been a challenge. Every issue I have tackled has had opponents. As I said in my State of the City Address, change is hard. My critics, the organizers of this effort, clearly do not like the status…
%{}% KMBC Channel 9’s Micheal Mahoney reports that the effort to recall Kansas City’s oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser has come up short. Mahoney’s super-secret sources tell him that the recall “fell a couple hundred signatures short.” The recall group needed 16,950 signatures from Kansas City voters. The results will be announced later Saturday afternoon. The recall group had predicted…
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Hey, if you see someone slashing tires on cop cars, call 911 … unless you’re the one slashing tires. Categories: News Tags: life lessons, vandalism
A man accidentally shot his girlfriend Thursday afternoon while cleaning out a .45-caliber gun, witnesses told police. Court records 23-year-old Takiya Love told 24-year-old Pervis D. Smith Jr. to stop playing with a gun prior to the shooting. Smith was ejecting rounds from the chamber of the gun when the it fired and hit Love in the chest. One witness…
From the Twitter of Jackson County Legislator Theresa Garza Ruiz: Categories: News, Politics Tags: jackson county legislature, Theresa Garza Ruiz, Theresa Garza-Ruiz
Look everybody! Jobs! 250 of ’em! Sara Lee is turning the old ConAgra Foods plant into a “state-of-the-art meat-slicing facility” (those are four words that I never thought I’d see in front of “meat-slicing”). The new plant should be in the futuristic meat cutting business by 2011. Categories: News
Here’s the last of this week’s poetry videos from the feature story, “Spit Happens.” This is Marcus Brown, the uncle who helped Taylor become a poet, and who’s been a driving force in KC’s slam scene. Categories: News Tags: Marcus Brown, the blue room, the Brown Bombers
Joe Posnanski damn near ruined the NBA Finals — at least the championship game NBA Commissioner David Stern fantasizes about — LeBron vs. Kobe — when he rubs one out. The finals that Nike assumes you want to see. JoPo may have doomed his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and King James by writing a cover story in the cursed Sports Illustrated….
Darren Welch has seen a thing or two. Todd Zimmer Currently playing bass in chamber-folk ensemble In the Pines, Welch also is a co-owner of Midwestern Musical Company. I caught up with him via e-mail talked about art, the economy and the Kansas City Sound. The Pitch: Where are you from? Darren Welch: I am from Kansas City. I lived…
Get out your aluminum-foil neutrino-blocker helmets and pink bodysuits, Lee’s Summit— it’s time to claim your place in prog-rock history. In a move of social-media marketing savvy, the Mars Volta is drumming up hype for its upcoming, June 23 Warner Bros. release, Octahedron, by holding a contest to allow 10 to 15 fans to host listening parties in their homes….
Brian Harbaugh is just as surprised as everyone else that a small barbecue cook-out he started with friends seven years ago would evolve into an all-day competition with hundreds of guests. “Did I ever expect the event to grow like it has? Absolutely not. It was just me and like 20 friends talking smack back and forth about barbecue. But…
Sadly and surprisingly, I was once again passed over to give a commencement speech this year. It’s a shame because I believe I’ve got some valuable advice to offer graduates, especially from high school. I actually only received this valuable advice myself two days ago when it was printed in Esquire and like many things in the magazine it concerns…
You know what’s bigger news than oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s second — and possibly final — “State of the City” speech? A spelling bee. Thankfully, the huge above-the-fold photo in this morning’s Kansas City Star wasn’t Funkhouser smooching on wife Gloria Squitiro. The Star is still trying to sell newspapers, right? (And is “Mr. Potato Head” Chuck Eddy trying…
KC Beer Blog has brought up an interesting subject that doesn’t get enough attention: happy hours. Yes, Fat City tries its darn-tootingnest to highlight all the best happy hours in town but there are many restaurants we never talk about because their happy hours leave lots to be desired. By following KC Beer Blog’s seven rules to a great happy…
This week’s column involves a shopping center in Lee’s Summit that’s getting taxpayer assistance. Nowadays, big retail centers receive incentives as a matter of course. Curious to know what cities did (if anything) for the malls of yesterday, I went to the Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library to look at old newspaper and magazine articles. One source turned…
This is such a quaint portrait of Kansas City — fun for the whole fam, cheap good times and a whole lot of HTML linking (www.baltimoresun.com/travel)! Everything’s super swell here in ol’ KC, so come on down and eat our barbeque and spend your money here — but you won’t have to spend a lot. Everything’s super cheap! And the…
For the past week, I have searched and called liquor stores citywide trying to find one that had Boulevard’s newest beer, Two Jokers, in stock. I heard a lot of “nope” and “never heard of it” and “we’re supposed to get it sometime soon.” Yesterday, three stores suddenly had it. There’s plenty for the taking now all over the city….
