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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A photo of Richard Anthony Jones was the 202nd needle in a haystack of mugshots of black men named Richard or Rick. In 1999, a self-described crackhead pointed at that photo and fingered Jones as the perpetrator of a r...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dan Edwards is the nervous one. He's the 30-year-old who owns 38 brush-swarmed vacant lots in Kansas City's Wendell Phillips Neighborhood on the East Side, talking about big plans he knows some residents will fear, doubt or e...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — This is the shining son, here on her phone, Clara Gamargo wants back. They're laughing together in selfies he took barely a year ago — before that day he hurled her onto the gravel of their Hickman Mills driveway so hard tha...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Walkie talkies interrupt. Smartphones buzz with calls. The women working at Kansas City's 3-month-old mental illness crisis center have too many desperate lines in the water for there to be any pause in the action — even dur...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A blunt science steers Kansas City's pursuit of its homeless. Who is more likely to die? That 62-year-old man out there bundled in a wheelchair, tending the nub of a cigarette in the late fall's first freezing winds, scored h...