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A local man is dead following a crash involving a mini bike in Jefferson County Thursday night.
The arrest of a Leavenworth Planning Commission member has left questions about both the criminal case and his commission seat unresolved. Police identified the man as 43-year-old Jonathan D. Kesler, arrested this week on suspicion of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a child tied to the alleged possession of media depicting a child under 18, KCTV5 reported.
There’s not much left of the original landscape in Kansas City, before it was bulldozed, plowed or overgrown with invasive plants. But people can access a good chunk of it up a steep, rocky trail past truck-sized slabs of limestone south of Swope Park. Conservationist Larry Rizzo describes the...
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) -- As deer season approaches, hunters should be aware of a rare but crucial disease that affects members of the deer family. Chronic waste disease, often referred to as CWD, is a fatal, contagious neurological illness that affects deer, elk, moose and caribou. It is spread between deer primarily through direct physical contact and the sharing of bodily fluids like saliva, urine and blood. It can also contaminate the surrounding soil and plants, allowing the disease to infect new deer years after an infected animal has left the area.
This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. After two years of worries about whether the Trump administration would interfere with the midterm elections, nothing extraordinary happened on Election Day. The problems that surfaced across the country were largely sporadic and manageable, even typical.