The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it isn’t thrilled with Kansas’ proposed plan to allow Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build a second coal-burning power plant in Holcomb. We know, you’re all stunned at this shocking and unforeseen development, so take a deep breath before reading further. HA! Total JK! Nobody is surprised by this. The latest episode in…
Wilfredo Melgar’s life was clearly worth more than the items he was killed over. Melgar was a husband and a father of two children. The 27-year-old was a store owner. But Melgar’s life was snuffed out in 2009 by 21-year-old Travis Knott, who shot and killed him over $83, two cell phones and a pack of Newport cigarettes. Categories: News…
Broken window, check. Steering column busted, check. Car stolen, fail. Kansas City police are looking for the guy on the right, who they say tried and failed (luckily) to steal a car from a Plaza parking garage last week. The guy just couldn’t get the car to start, the Star reported. Unfortunately, he did get away with a big bag…
Dear Readers: Although many of you have loved and/or loathed my columna for years, the Mexican still finds new readers every week in the unlikeliest of spots (hola, Chattanooga! See you in August, inshallah!). As a result, I sometimes receive questions about the methodology of the column, questions that all of us know the respuestas to but that bear refrying…
It’s Friday in Kansas City. Happy hour has bled into the weekend, steeply discounted beer by steeply discounted beer. You are determined not to spend the night alone, even if your eventual partner is just the glow of a fully charged laptop. How will the night end? Until recently, we had no idea. But now, after reading the responses of…
Lawrence music venue mainstay The Granada is holding a contest on Facebook, in honor of Valentine’s Day, to give away five pairs of tickets to various upcoming shows. The catch is pretty simple — find The Granada on Facebook, “like” its page (this would be one of those times when it would be sweet if Facebook had a “love” button),…
The state of Kansas would like to kill James Kraig Kahler if he’s convicted of killing his estranged wife, two daughters and wife’s grandmother on the day after Thanksgiving 2009 in a home outside of Burlingame, Kansas. Kahler, 48, is charged with four counts of capital murder for the killings of his 44-year-old ex-wife, Karen; the couple’s 18- and 16-year-old…
Rockhill Manor is infested with bedbugs. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has cited the midtown assisted-living facility at 4235 Locust for bedbugs, The Kansas City Star reported. Rockhill Manor is home to 108 residents with mental illness, and the bloodsuckers with penises like knives are making residents’ lives miserable, leaving them covered with welts. Categories: News Tags:…
If Kansas football coach Turner Gill doesn’t like his players hanging out with girls after 10:30 p.m., he’s definitely not going to be happy with 19-year-old Chris Omigie. The redshirt freshman wide receiver was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. Omigie was stopped near 21st Street and Naismith Drive around 2:30 a.m., proving…
Employment lawyer Mark Jess is on a hell of a run. His clients received favorable outcomes in two separate discrimination cases against the City of Kansas City, Missouri. The verdicts, worth about $5.6 million, came two days apart. The cases are notable for several reasons, including Jess’ fashion choices. A product of Marshfield, Missouri, Jess wears cowboy hats to the…
Yes, we still grab a fistful of matches when we find a restaurant that still offers this pleasant giveaway. Since it’s nearly impossible to find a dining room in the metro that still permits smoking, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find matchbooks or boxed matches up at the hostess stand, next to the cellophane-wrapped Starlight mints and the toothpicks. But…
Rick James famously said, “Cocaine is a hell of a drug.” He wasn’t lying. Early this morning, two men got into a cocaine-fueled fight that ended with one man stabbed in the abdomen, the Star reported. A woman reportedly told police that her boyfriend and her brother were “snorting cocaine” in a bathroom around 2 a.m. in the 4200 block…
The pork tenderloin sandwich is the unofficial state sandwich of my birth state, Indiana, but it has plenty of fans in Missouri. (I’m not sure if the Show-Me-State has an official state sandwich, but it should be burnt ends.) Nine years ago, the best pork tenderloin sandwich in the area could be found at a saloon called the Bottoms Up…
Call it synchronicity, but sometimes our Fat City stories — even by different writers — have unexpected connections. Take, for example, our Fat City intern Emily Johnson’s story about the new Graffiti Grill opening in midtown. Emily reported yesterday that the owners of the new restaurant are Shane and Stephanie Kesterson, who formerly operated a dining spot called Castaway’s Marina…
In preparation for tomorrow’s release of our Kansas City sex-survey results, we told you recently where Pitch readers said they would go if they absolutely had to get some. Today, we’re sneak-previewing another data set: the landmarks where Pitch readers would most like to have public sex. Tomorrow’s issue will feature some of the more bizarre answers, including someone who…
Monday night marked the birth of the first baby in the group of friends I’ve known since middle school. It was an awe-inspiring, slightly amazing “adult” moment. Being as how one of my ilk has successfully reproduced, I felt that it was an event worth celebrating — or, at the very least, an event worth hijacking the music blog of…
Big Monday didn’t end well for Missouri Tigers’ fans. This is probably a little extra salt in the wound: Kansas’ student section broke out into a flash mob at one point during the game. Even Big Jay and Little Jay got in on it. Watch the video after the jump. Categories: News Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, university of kansas
