%{}% Felons can’t hold office in Missouri. It’s a pretty simple premise. So Republican Herschel Young’s victory as presiding commissioner of Cass County last November has been thrown out by a judge. Young had been banned from taking office because he pleaded guilty in 1995 to a Class-C felony for slugging a guy, who he claimed spit in his wife’s…
Babies may not be able to lord over us with their ability to carry more than 3 ounces of liquid on an airplane for much longer. The Sacramento Bee reports that scientists at UC Davis are attempting to re-engineer a test (originally designed to see if wine in a bottle had gone bad) to be able to distinguish whether a…
As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to love us: The Pitch has an exclusive pre-sale for Arcade Fire tickets at Starlight on April 20. You can score tickets to the show on Friday, February 25, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m — that’s a full day before the general public gets their sticky fingers on ’em. Categories: Music…
UPDATE: Nia E. Grandberry, 24, has been identified as the victim of last week’s homicide/abduction. Independence police say their investigation is ongoing, and once they finish up, they’ll present the case to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. If you have information that can help police, call 816-325-7330. Original Story (February 18): A man is accused of shooting his wife and…
In case you forgot, today is Election Day — the first of three Election Days between now and April that will be crucial in determining the future of Kansas City and the entire region. (You can run, JoCo, but you can’t hide from your scary urban relatives.) Categories: News, Politics
%{}% Smallcakes is showing that we can be a nation under cupcakes. After opening its first franchise in Jenks, Oklahoma, last week, the local cupcakery had the grand opening for its third area shop yesterday in Lee’s Summit. The cupcake store is in the Summit Fair development at 880 NW Blue Parkway. And the new shop is running specials all…
Rachel Perez, accused of locking her 6-year-old son with Down syndrome in an attic and starving him, is no longer a pregnant inmate. KMBC Channel 9 reported this week that Perez recently gave birth to a child. Last August, the 26-year-old was arrested after her 6-year-old son was found covered with feces in a hot, filthy, mold-covered attic in De…
Don’t be surprised if you look over at the treadmill next to you and see four legs. The Wall Street Journal reports that the newest class of obese Americans is our pets. According to a recent joint survey from the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (APOP) and Banfield Animal Hospitals, apparently half of our pets are overweight and one-fifth of…
Kansas City Chiefs hall-of-famer Ed Podolak was seriously injured after being hit by a car Sunday morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Des Moines Register reported. Podolak, the longtime color commentator for the Iowa Hawkeyes, is reportedly in stable condition with “non-life-threatening injuries.” He was attending a wedding in Arizona and was hit while crossing a street near the hotel where…
“I wish I had sworn on this album so I could’ve gotten one of those P.A. explicit labels,” the Smith Westerns tweeted when its second record, Dye It Blonde, came out last month. It may not sport an eye-catching parental-advisory sticker, but Dye It Blonde does brighten up Smith Westerns’ glammy, garage-rock hooks with some studio gloss that wasn’t on…
A federal jury convicted five Kansas City men in a large-scale cocaine-trafficking ring, and one of the men was a member of the local rap group Block Life. The operation was running hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, worth millions of dollars, from Mexico to the Kansas City metro. Among those convicted of participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and…
Nara’s Sunrise Roll combines real rice, real shrimp, real avocado — and fake crabmeat. Some restaurants simply call it surimi, the word for “minced fish” in Japanese, and others, like Nara in the Crossroads, call it kani-kama (which sounds like a Kama Sutra sexual position — but isn’t), which is another name for surimi — but shaped into rectangular pieces….
%{}% UPDATE: Rodney Russell, 29, has been identified as the man shot to death by police Saturday morning, according to Crime Scene KC.Original Story (February 21): Saturday morning turned deadly when a knife-wielding man allegedly threatened two Kansas City police officers, who shot and killed the man. Categories: News Tags: officer-involved shooting, Rodney Russell
As expected, Sunday’s Ke$ha concert was filled with glitter and shame. Read our music editor’s harrowing review here and take a peek at the pictures Pitch intern Sami Dowd took of the slutwave mascot.
OK, hipsters and tipsters, let the Trader Joe’s rumor mill commence. The Kansas Star reports that both area TJ’s locations (Ward Parkway Center and One Nineteen in Leawood) will open sometime between July and September. But the buzz around town suggests that those who shop on the Missouri side of State Line might be picking up a bottle of Two…
A federal jury convicted five Kansas City men in a large-scale cocaine trafficking ring, and one of the men was a member of the rap group Block Life. The operation was running hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, worth millions of dollars, from Mexico to the Kansas City metro. Categories: News Tags: Block Life
On your mark, get set, refresh. Arcade Fire tickets for the band’s April 20 date at Starlight with the National go on sale on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The press release says “general admission” tickets are $37.50. When was the last time anyone can remember Starlight being a general-admission venue? Aren’t those plastic seats, like … permanent? Categories: Music…
A Jackson County jury wasn’t convinced that Marlan Epps killed Brandon Fauntleroy-McDowel in a botched carjacking near Case Park in 2008. The jury acquitted Epps, 21, on Friday, despite testimony from Epps’ sister that her brother had confessed to accidentally killing the 25-year-old graduate student by shooting him in the leg, the Star reported. Epps had been charged with second-degree…
The resplendent Eddie Spaghetti of the Supersuckers will be at Knuckleheads for a solo show (“Metal” Marty Chandler will be backing him up on guitar) on April 14. Categories: Music Tags: eddie spaghetti, knuckleheads, sexygrungymen, the Supersuckers
Stealing a disabled woman’s scooter has to rank up there with the lowest crimes imaginable. Fox 4 reported that Sarh Thurman, who has multiple sclerosis, left her scooter unattended for a few minutes Friday night while she went inside a neighbor’s house to get some spices. When she came back, thieves had made off with it. (The story doesn’t say…
