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DWI bill heads to Kehoe’s desk while Kansas City schedules Public Improvements Advisory Committee hearings.

By Ben McCarthy From single-story buildings to skyscrapers, Leawood’s Governing Body and its Planning Commission

“A marked fatality has followed the Shannon brothers – rapidly rising to fortune ……now all dead within a brief period. Truly life is uncertain.”

KCPD Chief Stacey Graves and South Patrol Commander Major Kari Thompson were among those who spoke at Monday’s South Kansas City Alliance meeting.

Drops off sites include Ruskin High School, Center Academy for Success and Southeast High School.

  There are no photos to truly show its grandeur, but by piecing together records and stories from the past, we are able to travel up Pearl Hill and meet some of its finest residents.

6th District cleanup will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 2 and 5th District cleanup will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 9.

The longstanding mental and behavioral health nonprofit will take over the former campus of Archbishop O’Hara High School to consolidate its education operations beginning in the 2026-27 school year. 

64 Capital Group LLC was formed in 2025 and consists of three partners, all women in the healthcare profession.

The Board of Alderman approved plans for a 258-unit apartment complex at the southwest corner of 150 Hwy and Byars Road. 

The restored bridge installation was a part of the original Presidential Trail plan in 2017, but the bridge hasn’t been erected there due to a lack of funding. The Bailey bridge was used as the Kenneth Road crossing in south Kansas City from 1996 until 2008.

Reappointments, parcel tax increases and upcoming events were all topics of conversation at the April meeting of the Martin City Community Improvement District meeting.

South Kansas City officials discussed key expenditures in the 2026-27 budget and other community issues. They also thanked the audience for voting in the April 7 election.

“As long as there were places to sing, audiences to applaud, critics to approve, I sang for dollars, for pennies, for love. But whatever the reward, I sang.”