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The Marion County Record and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday, April 1, 2024 over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher's home and notified local officials that the paper and its publisher believe they are due more than $10 million in damages.
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The National Registry of Exonerations says 153 innocent people were freed last year. A new report credits an increase on innocence organizations and conviction integrity units working on cases.
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Thieves cut a Jackie Robinson statue off its ankles last month, leaving only the feet behind at a Wichita park where about 600 children play in a youth baseball league called League 42.
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Denton Loudermill Jr. was briefly detained by police for moving too slowly away from the crime scene, but many people on social media — including a Republican Congressman from Tennessee — saw an African American man in handcuffs and falsely claimed he was one of the shooters.
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About half those injured in the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting were children. With such incidents continuing to happen, some parents now think twice about bringing kids to big, crowded events.
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Jackson County charged two 16-year-olds with gun offenses and resisting arrest in connection with the Chiefs victory parade shooting that killed one and injured 24. Now, one of the teens faces felony charges for unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest.
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The Kansas City Police Department says there were 23 total victims, including one death, from the Valentine’s Day shooting at Union Station. Three Kansas City hospitals took in a total of 29 patients with gunshot wounds and injuries from fleeing the scene, and some have since been released.
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A woman who died in the mass shooting after a parade for the Kansas City Chiefs and their Super Bowl victory DJed around the area and was a music lover who hosted an hourlong Tejano music radio show.
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Ex-KCKPD officer Roger Golubski deploys old tactic against abuse allegations: Calling accusers liarsAttorneys for Roger Golubski, facing federal charges that he sexually assaulted nine women by using the power of his badge, says the women are “simply smearing Golubski’s character.” The government is trying to prove a pattern of serial sexual abuse by a police officer over the course of decades.
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Ransomware attack prompts multistate hospital chain to divert some emergency room patients elsewhereThe University of Kansas Health System-St. Francis Campus in Topeka is on “divert status” because of a Nov. 23, 2023, cyber attack. The disruption is sending patients flooding into the city's other hospital.
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A federal judge rules that the Kansas Highway Patrol must stop using a tactic known as the “Kansas Two-Step” to detain out-of-state drivers long enough to find a reason to search their vehicles for illegal drugs.
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Officials say cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks.