Can't Get a Catholic Exorcism in Kansas City?
The Pitch |
April 22, 2008
The Pitch
Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...
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- Phone: (816) 561-6061
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Kansas Lawmakers' Paranoid Rush to Ban Synthetic Marijuananew
One officer says the first thing his department did upon hearing about K2 was search YouTube for clips. Another says he heard about a blog telling of a teen who went into a coma for 12 hours after smoking K2. A woman says she fears for teachers if a student goes into a violent frenzy.
At the International G.I. Joe Convention, Grown Men Play With Little Dollsnew
Most of the attendees are male, large, and loyal to either the 12-inch original toys or the 3-3/4-inch figurines based on the cartoon characters. A slight edge goes to the cartoon fans, who tend to be younger and single, with more disposable income.
Meet the Powder Creek Cowboys: The Fastest Guns in Lenexanew
Dennis Ryan has been a Leavenworth County paramedic for close to 30 years, treating wounds from car crashes and farm accidents but almost never gunshots. At Powder Creek, he's just Croaker -- one of the fastest guns in east Kansas and the man who won the Prince of Pistoleers last year.
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Peter Rugg |
07-07-2009 |
Recreation
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Reckoningnew
As regulators put a price tag — $1.32 billion — on what Scott Tucker's payday-lending enterprises have squeezed out of poor people, a grand jury convenes.
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver shows up to back a bold taxpayer ask: $18 million for 18th & Vine.new
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II stands in an elevator on the first floor of Kansas City, Missouri's City Hall on a dreary Wednesday afternoon. Cleaver, flanked by a security guard, is heading to the 26th floor, where the City Council is about to meet and discuss the prospect of an $18 million infusion to the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District...
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Steve Vockrodt |
01-14-2016 |
Policy Issues
Stuck With Secretsnew
As questions linger about Missouri's shadowy lethal-injection protocol, the state is days away from killing another inmate.
The Pitch |
Steve Vockrodt |
01-26-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: death penalty
Inside Westboronew
At Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Drain found religion but lost a daughter.
Tags: Westboro Baptist Church
'Anchor Babies' Are a Mythnew
This soon-to-be-deported family proves that "anchor babies" are a myth.
The Pitch |
Nadia Pflaum |
01-26-2011 |
Immigration
