Another family member has been charged in the sexual abuse case in Lafayette County. Darrel Wayne Mohler, the 72-year-old brother of Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., is charged with two counts of felony rape. The latest charges come after authorities cleared a man that they claimed was a suspect in the case. Also, the father of an alleged victim is speaking…
Kansas City police shot a suspect who tried run over officers with a car early Monday morning, Kansas City police say. Around 1:30 a.m., Kansas City officers stopped a car at Anderson and Wheeling, but the driver took off on foot. View Larger Map Police say the man circled back to the car and tried to run over one of…
Update: Jose Diaz-Turcios, the second shooting victim, has died from his injuries. ***Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Eldier Molina and Juan Lopez Sunday with first-degree murder in the death of Gerson Diaz-Turcios. Molina, a 20-year-old who also goes by “Puppet,” and Lopez, 18, were also charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Jose Diaz-Turcios. Prosecutors also charged…
Amber Kahn was shot and killed near 11th and Van Brunt around 8 p.m. Saturday. View Larger Map Kansas City police say the 27-year-old was taken to a local hospital where she died from her injuries. If you have a tip about Kahn’s death, call 816-474-8477. Update: Kansas City police are counting the death of 49-year-old Halimo Ahmed of Kansas…
Two men were charged last week with killing Dennis J. Moore Sr. Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Levert Xavier Braswell and Artis M. Johnson with first-degree murder in the death of Moore. Braswell, 20, and Johnson, 18, were also charged with attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and aggravated battery. Braswell and Johnson are being held in the Wyandotte County jail on…
On Friday, November 13, after all of last week’s Veteran’s Day speeches were over, the Heart of America Stand Down Foundation (kcstanddown.org) hosted a day-long event where homeless vets could eat hot meals, pick up warm clothes and get haircuts and health screenings at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. We got there around 2 p.m., as things were winding…
A rainbow of culinary creativity in one week! Remember Rainbow Brite? No, not Strawberry Shortcake, that other quasi-cartoon TV character and toy marketing device from the 1980s. Rainbow Brite was full of colorful rainbows and happiness — just like this week’s Top Stories in Fat City! Well, it was colorful, anyway, beginning with white, as in White Castle — one…
You draw a Florida to look like a big cock — and say “Florida got excited” — in a classroom, then you won’t be teaching for long. Ryan Haraughty found out the hard way this week. I mentioned Haraughty’s poor artistic skills — and the outcry from Haraughty’s students over his firing — in this post, “Teacher fired for drawing…
In Mitchell Zuckoff’s Robert Altman: The Oral Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 560 pages, $29.95), Altman tells the author that his motto is “Giggle and give in.” But this thick, frustrating book — rich in anecdotes and grudges, richer in defenses of its subject, but only intermittently revealing of Altman’s technical mastery — offers little evidence that the iconoclastic director, who…
And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won’t cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to ’em. If you want to get some art in this weekend, there are two shows where not only can you get an eyeful of many artists’ work, you’ll be able…
With Digable Planets tonight at the Bottleneck and P.O.S. at the Beaumont on Sunday — and some killer local shows in between — you won’t be blamed for forgetting rock and roll even exists this weekend in Kansas City. Wait … check that. For one thing, guitars will be present tonight at the Scion Lab when Mouth the band provides…
There’s a new push for glass-recycling in Kansas City thanks to Ripple Glass. Carolyn Szczepanski writes all about the new venture in this week’s feature story, “The Ripple Effect.” The goal is pretty lofty: Triple Kansas City’s glass-recycling efforts in the next two years. Let’s hope they do it. Also in this week’s Pitch, Martin tries to make sense of…
Since May, the free Scion Radio 17 Monthly series has brought heaps of beats to the Czar Bar, much of it executed by DJs who probably wouldn’t have come through KC at all — certainly not to play shows that cost you nothing other than an e-mail address to get into. Last night was the season’s final installment and featured…
Earlier this morning, this blog reported that King Khan & BBQ Show’s appearance tonight at the Jackpot has been canceled due to the band getting arrested in Kentucky yesterday afternoon. (The Riverfront Times has some updates on the situation.) But the rest of tonight’s show is still going on. Tourmates Those Darlins still aim to rock the Jackpot with their…
Because we like to keep ourselves informed, we at Wayward Blog like to keep our ear tuned to the radio. You can’t rock all the time, and Anti-Flag songs are ten times funnier when you’re actually aware of the political situation in which the world finds itself. Plus, being as how journalism is a fantastic way to make mad scrilla,…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved.Weird things always happen on Friday the 13th. So you might as well embrace the spookiness and get to Californos for its Haunted Bar. Scary movies are promised at the Westport haunt for the freaky evening that kicks off at 10…
Ask Bill Clause, of good-hearted nonprofits KKFI 90.1 and CrossCurrents Culture, how he came to write 1937: A Helluva Year, a musical steeped in the history of Kansas City and the labor movement, and he can’t help but start time-lining. “When you look back at history, there are certain watershed years,” he explained to The Pitch this week. Then, like…
Winter is upon us and in case you have a fireplace that isn’t working, you should have a good brown ale to keep you warm. Today’s battle is a slugfest between a domestic craft brewer, Goose Island of Chicago, and an English import, Samuel Smith. Both breweries are well-regarded and offer Nut Brown Ales. So, in a side-by-side pour, Fat…
