Plog at pitch.com: Killa City Drunk or Dead? A few weeks ago, I remember reading a story about several people being shot behind a business in Westport. In the same issue of the online Star, I read about how a DUI checkpoint had yielded, I think, eight arrests. The article didn’t mention how many people were stopped to arrive at…
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The upcoming documentary What’s the Matter With Kansas? features an eerie interview with George Tiller and footage from 1991’s so-called “Summer of Mercy.” The film, like the book it’s based on, looks at the country’s conservatives. Here’s a bit of the doctor, discussing the intimidation and violence he’s encountered, which would eventually claim his life: Categories: News Tags: abortion, George…
KSHB Channel 41 is reporting that no charges will be filed in the alleged rape of a teenage girl at Fairview Alternative School, 2850 Pittman Rd., last month. View Larger Map A 17-year-old girl alleged that a 14-year-old boy raped her in a bathroom on May 20. The announcement came Wednesday from Jackson County Family Court officials, KSHB reported. Categories:…
Operation Rescue president Troy Newman wrote an op-ed in USA Today, uh, today calling the assassination of George Tiller “vigilantism” that “must be abhorred” but so should aborting fetuses. Meanwhile, USA Today’s editorial board calls for protection of abortion providers. Fox 4’s Tess Koppelman asked an anti-abortion activist about the denunciations of Tiller’s killing by anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue….
City Councilwoman Cathy Jolly just announced that the new regional jail will get to keep the Bridge Program. The city secured $900,000 in funding for the project, which provide diagnosis, counseling, and case management to inmates who’ll be moved from the Municipal Correctional Institution to the regional jail later this summer. That’s really good news because the Bridge Program employs…
The Kansas City hip-hop scene continues to show up Santa Claus in terms of generosity. The latest offering: a big hunk of burnin’ (digital) love from Miles Bonny and his INnatesounds Crew. Following in the footsteps of last year’s posse compilation Alpha, the INnatesounds Crew 2009 Sampler brings a similarly spaced-out, Magic Fingers rubdown of jazzy hip-hop and indie R&B,…
%{}% Tiller, Dr. George R., age 67, Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and Medical Director of Women’s Health Care Services, died on Sunday, May 31, 2009. He was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his place of worship, Reformation Lutheran Church. George was the son of Dr. Jack and Catherine Tiller. He was born…
The Springfield, Missouri, chapter of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, thought it would be cute to adopt a section of highway along West Bypass between Sunshine and Farm Road 142. MoDOT allowed them to put up a sign along the road bearing the group’s name, and members posed with it, Seig Heil-ing and whatnot (pictured). Afterward, they went…
A text messaging flamewar between family members and friends allegedly led to a triple stabbing in the 8800 block of East 23rd Street. KCTV-5 was on the scene after police busted the shirt-less, “all out brawl” in which “knives, pipes and flashlights” (oh my) were used as weapons. Here’s some screen shots of the handcuffed (alleged) combatants. Categories: News Tags:…
There is no cereal more disappointing when you’re a kid than Grape Nuts. The commercials show attractive young adults running, working, driving big cars and talking about how it keeps them going. Plus it has the words grape (yum) and nut (double-yum) in the name, so it has to be good. I should have known I was in for disappointment…
Normally it can be a chore to find a restaurant that just tolerates kids, much less gives them meals for free. But these ain’t normal times, and restaurants desperately want you and your offsprings’ business. Frugal Living TV has compiled a list of more than 50 restaurants with deals that allow kids to eat free. At Zarda Barbecue, kids eat…
Do you buy your java at the local supermarket or big box store? I do — with mixed luck. I usually buy what’s cheapest or on sale: I’ve had good luck with those big bags of Roasterie coffee or even the house brand of bean coffee at Costco. I grind my own beans and the morning and those brands taste…
Then you thought wrong. I thought wrong, too. I got curious after reading this story about adopted greyhounds in our sister paper. And I learned that, despite the fact that the greyhound racetrack in Kansas, the Woodlands, closed in August 2008, Kansas is still a large greyhound-breeding state. It’s also home to the National Greyhound Association and the Greyhound Hall…
When the Kansas City Zephyr first left Union Station in 1953, bound for Chicago, it represented the ultimate in luxury train travel and design. Less than 15 years later, the Zephyr was out of service — dismantled for parts. In the years since, the golden era of train travel has acquired a nostalgic luster. The Kansas City Museum has a…
You may know Carol Jean Barta — the local “Queen of All Media” — as the little old lady rapper on that WeNeedGold.com TV commercial or, if blood and gore are your game, from direct-to-video screamfests like Bloodthirsty Cannibal Demons (where she played Haggis the Witch and invented her own recipe for prop vomit; pistachio pudding was the secret ingredient)….
There’s a good chance your Starbucks’ barista just lost out on his or her share of $100 million. That was the fine a Californian judge issued to Starbucks for pooling tips for baristas and shift supervisors. Yesterday, an appeals court reversed that ruling saying that supervisors and baristas are essentially the same thing. The case was brought by a former…
I’ll go anywhere for a decent ice cream cone, but this location isn’t as close to Midtown as I’d like. Still, it’s so damn cute… Do you know where it is? And more importantly, if you do know where it is, what should I order when I actually step up to the little window in the center of that Pepto-Bismol-pink…
Fake Problems will hit the road this summer in support of their debut SideOneDummy release, It’s Great To Be Alive. The band has been on the road since they wrapped the recording and this tour will be their first set of headlining shows in support of the album. They will be joined on two separate legs by Kiss Kiss and…
%{}% Here’s a revelation: Scott P. Roeder, the man charged with assassinating abortion doctor George Tiller, worked for The Kansas City Star. The tidbit appeared in this morning’s Star story, which listed several jobs Roeder has held through the years. Here’s the snip: In the two weeks immediately before the shooting, he had been working at Quicksilver Enterprises, an airport…
%{}% Wednesday means two farmers’ markets. The Downtown Overland Park Farmers’ Market started at 7:30 this morning and goes until sell-out, usually around noon. This market’s 50 vendors sell produce, herbs, meat and even pie, and include a farm run by refugees. If you can’t make it today, the market also opens on Saturdays at 6:30 a.m. This evening in…
