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A longtime Kansas City nonprofit opens a new east-side center on Aug. 1, 2026, to centralize counseling, legal help and wound care for survivors of violence. The day will include a community back-to-school celebration.
Olathe Municipal Court will accept new school supplies in lieu of qualifying traffic and parking fines through Aug. 4, offering up to a $50 credit per donor.
Union Pacific’s Big Boy rolled past Eureka as sweltering crowds lined Route 66; dozens were treated for heat‑related illness and Meramec Ambulance District called for mutual aid. No fatalities were reported.
Kanbe’s Markets is placing produce coolers in neighborhood stores across KC and says it aims to reach about 130 partners as part of a plan to expand fresh‑food access.
An anonymous Jackson County player turned a $20 Missouri Lottery Scratchers ticket into a $100,000 win after buying a ticket at a BP on Hickman Mills Drive.
ReStart's Family Lodge converts a Midtown hotel into 45 furnished transitional apartments for families. Volunteers and partners are outfitting units ahead of a ribbon-cutting this week.
A Ring doorbell recorded a FedEx driver using a racial slur while delivering to a Black‑owned Kansas City brokerage; FedEx says the worker is no longer providing service.
Kansas City’s BPU and unions are mourning lineworker Joshua McKee after a fatal on‑the‑job incident; authorities and the utility say an investigation is underway.
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