Simon Angilda was convicted in January of raping a 92-year-old Leawood woman while drunk and high on Ecstasy. The rape occurred last June, and the conviction could end up with Angilda getting an 85-year prison sentence. Angilda’s defense attorney is arguing that 85 years would be cruel and unusual punishment, according to the Star. “He’s 22,” Angilda’s attorney Carol Cline…
First, a moment of silence for the recently departed Domo in Olathe. That Asian restaurant and grill was the suburban outpost of the cozier, more successful sushi joint of the same name in Brookside. The Olathe Domo lasted less than six months in the Shops at Avignon center at 14178 West 119th Street. It closed two weeks ago, according to…
Opening Day is a tough ticket in Kansas City. The other 80 home games, after all, usually mean so little. The 2011 Royals are not expected to contend — again. Yet the baseball world agrees that the organization has a group of potential stars coming up through the minor leagues. The 2011 season is the long layover before the jet…
A federal grand jury has indicted Karen Pletz, the former president and CEO of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, for allegedly embezzling more than $1.5 million from the university. Pletz, 63, was charged in a 24-count indictment that was unsealed today. She served as president and CEO of KCUMB and as a member of the university’s board of…
UPDATE: The man shot to death by Olathe police on Tuesday has been identified as 20-year-old Carlos Villegas Jr. As for the assault victim, he’s listed in stable condition at a local hospital. Original Story (March 30): Two lanes of eastbound Interstate 70 were shut down after an Independence police officer shot a person during a gunfight Tuesday, The Kansas…
Roxanne Janel Jones, 34, allegedly bilked a couple from Leavenworth, Kansas, out of thousands of dollars while posing as a pregnant, single mom hoping to give up her children for adoption. Jones also used a false Social Security number, and accepted donations from Christian Family Services in Overland Park, Kansas, according to the charges filed against her in Johnson County…
Rodney Jones partied his money away. UPDATE: Turn out the lights, the five year party’s over. Ex-KU athletics official Rodney Jones is headed to prison. According to the Star, Jones is going away for 46 months, and he’ll have to pay $1.3 million in restitution to KU and the IRS (he’ll also be forfeiting $2 million). He’s the second ex-KU…
The heat in the kitchen is nothing compared with what could be growing in your backyard. Boing Boing posted about ghost pepper plants, not just seeds, for sale on the Internet. The bhut jolokia (ghost chili) pepper, sold at ghostchilipeppersdeal.com, is the Guinness World Record holder for hottest pepper on Earth. It measures 1,001,304 on the Scoville scale, the standard…
%{}% Oh, you lucky bastards in Reno County. You get to pay $11,000 for the medical bills of accused attempted rapist Kevin Scott Funderburk. You might remember Funderburk, 25, from the December incident in which he allegedly tried to rape a 71-year-old Hutchinson woman who ended up beating the shit out of him with a frying pan. Why is Reno…
Middle of the Map Fest is just a week away, and local record label The Record Machine is ringing in the spring and festival season with a free show from two of its acts, Minden and Motorboater. Nathan Reusch, co-founder of the label, has been a busy man — the majority of his label bands are appearing at the Middle…
A buzz band’s popularity can wax and wane, it seems, by the time we’ve read this sentence. (Seriously, go check Pitchfork. I’ll bet that two bands just broke up.) Luckily, for Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius, Foster the People is still turning on ears across the country. The Los Angeles trio started making music in 2009. By 2010,…
“Smile, you are loved,” reads the white sheet of paper above chef Sandi Corder-Clootz’s desk in the office at the back of Eden Alley, the restaurant she co-owns and operates with her husband, Greg. The office is a former stage at Unity Temple on the Plaza. She shares the cozy nook with the restaurant’s canned goods, which initially were kept…
Ronald Dennis will probably have no problem adjusting to jail. He has already shown a penchant for squirreling himself away in confined spaces. Dennis was arrested around 1 a.m. Sunday after what surely seemed like a flawless criminal plot fell apart inside a self-storage unit in St. Joseph. Police say Dennis broke into the unit and began looking around for…
Two years after 19-year-old Jason Wren was found dead of alcohol poisoning at the University of Kansas’ Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter house, the terms of a settlement may be outlined by the end of the week. The Lawrence Journal-World reported Monday that attorneys told a judge that they were working on a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Wren’s…
The repeal of a long-standing city ordinance that prohibited Kansas City, Missouri, diners from bringing their own bottles of wine into restaurants was quietly passed by the City Council on January 31. So quietly, in fact, that a surprising number of local restaurateurs and wine vendors still don’t know about it. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: BYOB, revised city…
Larry Johnson. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Let’s try that again. Larry Johnson. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Ooh, I’m so biased. I just can’t even write the former Kansas City Chiefs running back’s name without breaking out in hate. Maybe LJ’s attorney has a point. We just hate him so much that he can’t get a fair trial…
%{}% You probably didn’t spend the offseason training for the big day. Now that you’re faced with the challenge of thousands of other fans at Kauffman Stadium, who inexplicably want a fresh limeade at exactly the same moment (curse you, beautiful crown Jumbotron in center field), you might just choke. And in the process, you’ll upset the fine balance between…
The Granada on a Wednesday can be a cold and cavernous place for opening acts to do what opening acts should do: Warm up a crowd. So when Kansas City’s Greg Enemy walked onstage with merely a microphone and white MacBook in hand, the odds were already against him. Openers in hip-hop have no instruments to hide behind, no guitar…
The wife of “Master Ed” Bagley was indicted Tuesday for her alleged role in the Missouri sex slave case. Earlier this week, Marilyn Bagley, Master Ed, Michael “Rodent” Stokes and Bradley Cook were charged in an 18-count superseding indictment returned by a grand jury. The feds allege that the Bagleys engaged in sex and sexual torture with a mentally deficient…
If the Pickleback — whiskey with a pickle juice chaser — is a sledgehammer, then the cucumber soda from SodaVie is a rock hammer, gently rounding out against your taste buds. The sea-foam-green soda with the tiny bubbles is one of a dozen, handcrafted brews made by the GetReal Food Company — the soda company operating out of the back…
%{}% Matt Painter is staying at his alma mater. Painter isn’t leaving Purdue for Mizzou. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cited a source Wednesday saying that Painter had told Missouri AD Mike Alden he was “in.” He wasn’t. (The Post-Dispatch reporter has since apologized.) In a statement to the press, Painter said: “At the end of the day, my heart is…
