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They were shot at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade — and might live with bullets in their bodies forever
Despite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.
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Reed Hoffmann/APThe Kansas City Current is off to a great start during its first season at CPKC Stadium. The team leads the league in goals and hasn't lost a game over a month into the year. -
WeCodeKCWeCode KC is partnering with Kipp Legacy High School in Kansas City for the new program WeCodeThaBloKC, which aims to help youth from underserved communities break into the high-paying, in-demand tech industry.
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Some high school seniors said they just started receiving financial aid offers this week. And some colleges, including the University of Kansas and Newman University, have pushed back their tuition deposit deadlines because of FAFSA delays. -
Kansas City residents cannot access the KCMO.gov website or 311 portal after they were taken offline over the weekend. The outage is affecting municipal court, city council, and KC Water. -
Under protest by members of the far-right Missouri Freedom Caucus, the upper chamber adjourned without taking up any bills. But a state constitutional deadline is coming on Friday, a deadline that's only been missed once before. -
The law targets a plan by KC Recycle & Waste Solutions to build a landfill at Kansas City’s southern border. For more than a year, Raymore and other suburban municipalities have pushed legislation designed to block the landfill, arguing it would hurt the environment, property values and residents’ health. -
Veterans who helped test nuclear weapons are fighting to renew a 34-year-old law meant to help compensate for the long-term health effects of their work. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has spotlighted the issue in Missouri, where generations of people have been exposed to radioactive waste tied to the Manhattan project. -
The state's law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Texas and Arkansas have similar laws on the books. -
If approved by Misouri voters, the development would include a hotel, convention center, restaurants and other attractions. -
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey went looking for complaints about gender-affirming health care last year. He got something else: Thousands of complaints about Bailey and the tip line itself. -
Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all together.
