Kansas City
‘Where are we drawing the line?’: Longtime KC criminal rearrested for battery while on probation for it in Wyandotte CountyWyandotte County, Kansas District Attorney Mark Dupree is huge on second chances for criminals – repeatedly touting alternatives to prosecution, hosting seven annual “ expungement fairs ” to erase… Read More
Crime, Kansas City
Police still searching for Kansas City car-chase, shooting suspectPolice are investigating a gunfire-riddled car chase that ended with a rollover crash in a Kansas City suburban neighborhood on Sunday evening before… Read More
Drugs, Kansas City
Barbie dolls concealing cocaine, fentanyl unwittingly sold at Kansas City storeA Kansas City discount store inadvertently sold Barbie dolls with potent drugs concealed in the packaging over the weekend. One family discovered a mysterious white powder… Read More
Kansas City
So who is the mystery anti-ICE arsonist, and why isn’t she in custody?This should have been an open and shut case. In the early evening of Feb. 12 our mystery terrorist splashed accelerant over the windowed stretch of… Read More
Crime
Kansas City arson convict to serve another prison sentenceA man who previously set a Kansas City church on fire was sentenced to seven more years in prison last Thursday for illegally… Read More
Kansas City
Kansas City airport among weekend security threats amid Democrat government shutdownA bomb scare at Kansas City International Airport (KCI) Sunday isn’t considered an act of terror – though it comes amid others around the world that are. Read More
Kansas City, Local Government
Kansas City mayor’s new budget promises wage increase for officers, inclusivity for those ‘fleeing bigotry’The Kansas City mayor introduced an increased budget for the coming year in his annual State of the City Address last week. … Read More
ICE, Kansas City
Kansas City Mayor seems to allude to the Holocaust while opposing proposed ICE facilityKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas seemed to allude to the Holocaust on national television Wednesday in his attack on a proposed ICE detention facility in the city. Lucas… Read More
Homeschools
Midwestern homeschool conference to celebrate ‘richness’ of simplicity in teaching methods, 40-year anniversaryAs the Midwest Parent Educators (MPE) nonprofit marks its 40-year anniversary, its spring conference will highlight many homeschool families’ firsthand experiences – including the power of simplicity in teaching. “It’s easy to get caught up in… Read More
Kansas City
Jackson County’s ordinance that would force ICE agents to unmask ‘dangerous, stupid, illegal’A proposed Jackson County ordinance would keep ICE agents and other law enforcement officers from wearing masks while on duty in the Missouri county. Ordinance… Read More
Homeschools
Encouragement Day speaker urges homeschool moms to ‘live with an eternal perspective’Terri Hitt has experienced firsthand what she calls every parent’s greatest fear – losing a child – when her daughter passed away unexpectedly at the age of 29. “When she… Read More
Kansas City
Releases of felony suspects from Wyandotte County Jail draw media attention, attorney’s concernAt least one other Kansas City media outlet is reporting on what is essentially a revolving door at the Wyandotte County Jail, after previous reports from The Heartlander. Read More
Kansas City
Boy in girls’ locker room in KC-area school? District simply isn’t sayingWord is circulating a KC-area boy used a high school girls’ locker room for months last school year, but the district isn’t saying one way or the other. Read More
Charlie Kirk
KC-area cheerleading coach under fire for ‘rest in piss’ epitaph for Charlie KirkA cheerleading coach at a Kansas City-area high school cheered for Charlie Kirk’s assassination with a social media post reading “rest in piss gummy boy.”… Read More
Public Education
Kansas City-area cheerleading coach under fire for ‘rest in piss’ epitaph for Charlie KirkA cheerleading coach at a Kansas City-area high school cheered for Charlie Kirk’s assassination with a social media post reading “rest in piss gummy boy.” “We are aware. We… Read More
Kansas City
‘Lesbian Juice’ sticker handed out at KC-area high school freshman orientationA sticker with the sexually suggestive term “Lesbian Juice” was given out at freshman orientation Aug. 13 at a Kansas City-area high school, The Heartlander has learned. Read More
Kansas City
Wyandotte County court bookkeepers federally indicted for embezzling nearly a millionTwo former bookkeepers for Wyandotte County District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, have each been federally charged with eight crimes in an alleged embezzlement of nearly a million dollars. Julia… Read More
Culture
Socialist failure: KC’s city-funded grocery store closesKansas City’s government-funded grocery store, which became an international symbol of officialdom’s incompetence in private-sector business, has closed. Even KC’s liberal public radio station KCUR had to admit KC… Read More
Kansas City
Upcoming Kansas City ‘March of Love’ to foster solidarity with Jewish community, honor Sarah Milgrim’s memoryA European immigrant Christian pastor haunted by Hitler’s shadow is warning Kansas City of the evils of antisemitism and exhorting people of faith to take part in a… Read More
Gender Identity
Missouri Supreme Court rejects transgender student’s discrimination claim against school district(The Heartlander) — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a transgender student’s claim against a school district for denying the student access to single-sex facilities. The student, identified as… Read More