The daughters of Burrell Mohler Jr. told authorities that their father made them kidnap and kill a man, KCTV 5 reports. The TV station cites a warrant alleging that Mohler Jr. and his daughters stalked a 300-pound man from Independence Center to his home and then lured him into a trap and took him away to Mohler Jr.’s father’s farm…
Earlier this year, when President Obama zeroed out funding for “abstinence-only sex education” in the 2010 federal budget, parents and teachers who don’t want their kids stumbling ignorantly into adolescence celebrated. But that doesn’t mean students in the Kansas City region can count on age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education — unless the community pushes for change. Jen LaBarbera, an organizer for…
Rainy days seem to bring out the need for a plate of something warm and filling. Whether it’s comfort food or a hot drink with lunch, everybody has their own recipe for getting through the day. When it’s cold and wet, I’m opting for a ham and cheese sandwich or Monte Cristo — essentially a breakfast ham and cheese sandwich….
And what did you ever do? Barclay Martin and his Ensemble rightly got a standing ovation at the end of a concert on Sunday, November 8, at JCCC’s Yardley Hall. Thanks to production by Quixotic and on-stage artillery from the Sampaguita Choir and the Sinag-Tala Dance Troupe, this was not your usual Barclay show. (The Star ran a review.) Behold,…
Kansas City is shaking free of our suffering Royals — at least, in the world of fake news. Does it get any better than The Onion making up quotes for Mayor Funkhouser? Observe: “It was time to move in another direction,” Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser said at a press conference. “There were some vested incentives that would have automatically…
Last week’s edition of “Where is it?” had an intriguing photograph of a sign that announced “Fresh chickens breaded daily.” Only commenter Barry knew the location: The LC’s Burgers on North Oak Trafficway. Sensational burgers, by the way. (I usually eat at the other location in the Northland because the one on North Oak Trafficway is drive-through only). I’ve never eaten…
Learn the story of how beans from around the globe make their way to Kansas City tomorrow morning when the Roasterie’s founder Danny O’Neill talks about his coffee business and recent travels as part of Park University School of Business’ Global Entrepreneurship Week. O’Neill will be speaking in the McCoy Meetin’ House at the Parkville campus at 11 a.m. His…
When Johnson County prosecutors charged her in the April 2009 death of a child at the daycare she ran out of her Olathe home, Jeanette L. Lawrence was writing a book about how to run a daycare. Prosecutors have charged Lawrence with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated child endangerment in the death of 18-month-old Ava Patrick. Authorities believed the girl pushed…
%{}% A day of home brewing focuses on British style beers. It’s the right time of year for a fire and that means one thing: S’mores Bars. A look at the craft beer movement in Britain, as the battle for best lager heats up. Have you tried to buy Eggo waffles but the store has been sold out? A flood…
Digital Leather is dark, almost evil synthpunk. The first thing I heard from Shawn Foree was the single he release on Goner, “She Has A Cameltoe,” which has made heads perk up every time I’ve played it somewhere. “Who’s this?” is the usual response, with head cocked to the side like the RCA dog. It’s good stuff — dark, but…
Thanks to this weekend’s “Weddings and Celebrations” section of The New York Times, we learned that Edward Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelilus’ 28-year-old son, wed Lisa Rockefeller, also 28, last Saturday in Boca Grande, Florida. (Feel free to make “Big Mouth, Florida” jokes at this time.) The pair met while working in Iowa on Sen. John Kerry’s ill-fated presidential campaign in October…
If you saw WHY?’s show at the Jackpot last week and just couldn’t get enough, here’s a little something extra for you: a remix of WHY?’s “One Rose” by Alias. WHY?’s original “One Rose” is a quiet, well-crafted, singer-songwriter-type of tune. Just like Yoni Wolf said-it’s not hip-hop, you guys. But those missing the beat of yore get a break…
The Kansas City Star’s unhealthy obsession with former Kansas City Chief and future Cincinnati Bengal Larry Johnson continues. Star sports reporter Kent Babb updated his Twitter yesterday after spying King Pink’s posts on Facebook and Twitter. This comes less than a week after Babb blabbed on Twitter that LJ was in Dallas — citing the GPS coordinates on his Twitter…
Kansas City notched its 101st homicide overnight. View Larger Map Around 9:49 p.m., Kansas City police met a man at the Apple Market at 6th and Monroe who claimed to have information about a homicide. The man led police to an apartment building in the 3700 block of Roberts where police found the the lifeless body of a woman outside…
After yesterday morning’s chase, police charged John I. Battaglia, 25, with second-degree assault on a law officer and armed criminal action. His alleged weapon of choice: a 1981 black-on-grey Chevy Corvette. Police encountered Battaglia on a car check near Anderson and Wheeling. They grew suspicious when the ‘Vette’s license plate came back from a different car, according to the probable…
Jackson County prosecutors charged Hussein A. Ahmed last week with allegedly attempting to have sex with his step daughter when she was younger than 14-years-old, according to the Jackson County’s Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutors say Ahmed, 27, married his late brother’s wife and cared for the brood. He’s charged with first attempting to have sex with step-daughter sometime in 2004, when…
Acknowledging that its dress code was a public-relations debacle, Power & Light District officials announced their intention to form an oversight board. Standing in front of the predominantly African-American workers who enforce the dress code in the district’s Kansas City Live! block, Zed Smith, the district’s managing partner, invited the NAACP, the Urban League, the Kansas City Police Department, elected…
Cracked got “Weird Al” Yankvoic to do them a list (yet another in their seemingly endless series of lists), in which he names “The 9 Most Underrated Funny Songs.” He is rewarded by having his last name misspelled “Yankovich” every time it appears. That being said, it’s an intriguing list — while it contains Dr. Demento staples like Napoleon XIV…
Ever since Rob Zombie left the Uptown’s stage a few minutes after midnight this past Saturday, I’ve wondered whether I should unburden myself of a decades-old secret in this review. Maybe it was the way Zombie’s show itself was sort of confusing — one minute burning as fast and clean as the hot-rods he sings about, another watching Zombie shrug…
About a week ago, Paul Burns’ face was slashed in an argument with a man over parking. Fox 4 interviewed Burns, who showed off his scar and said he needed 150 stitches to sew his face back together again. Now, Burns has medical bills. Lucky for him, his friends are trying to help him pay them off, starting with a…
