Ex-Theater Director Found Dead amid Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘This Whole Thing Is Devastating’
A theater director in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Saturday after being accused of sexual assault.

A theater director in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Saturday after being accused of sexual assault.
Still photos taken from bodycam footage from last Friday’s officer-involved shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, show Leonna Hale was allegedly holding a gun prior to being shot.
A little girl named Elaina Guerra went on a special mission Wednesday and inspired others along the way in Kansas City, Missouri.
An alleged armed intruder was shot dead Sunday morning in Kansas City after being confronted by an apartment resident.
A passenger was subdued after reportedly trying to open an airplane’s door and break into the cockpit during a flight from Los Angeles to D.C. on Sunday.
A man faces charges after a woman was found dead in a bathtub and her daughter was bludgeoned and left on a bed recently in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri, is reinstating its mask mandate for children in K-12 schools following a city council vote approving the measure.
Danny Carey, the drummer for Tool, was arrested Sunday after an altercation with an employee at Kansas City International Airport.
A local store was left with nothing after thieves apparently targeted it, but community members are stepping up to get the shop, One Pair, back to business.
Team ROC — the social justice arm of left-wing rap mogul Jay-Z company ROC Nation — which has previously bailed anti-police protesters out of jail, is now suing the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department (KCKPD) over allegations that the department covered up instances of police misconduct.
Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday brought back its indoor mask mandate following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) controversial guidance, urging vaccinated individuals to mask up.
A “Back the Blue” rally will call for the resignation of Trump-bashing Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) on Wednesday.
Police in Kansas City, Missouri, arrested a mother once she crashed her car and allegedly pulled out a gun while her two children were inside the vehicle.
The Tenth District Manufacturing Survey’s composite index climbed to 24 in February, up from 17 in January. Economists had forecast a mild decline to 15.
A woman donated one of her kidneys to honor the loss of her five-year-old son, setting off a chain of organ donations that brought six people in Kansas City together for transplants.
A Black Lives Matter protest leader challenged followers to invade restaurants and bars to “ruin dinners” and “ruin happy hours.” The tactic has been seen in action in restaurants and bars across the country.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) argued that President Trump “has gone beyond simple dog-whistling to probably dog barking” and is being “loud about, I think, black leadership in his constant fight”
“We just started this process, and frankly, we have no choice but to get involved,” Trump said.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) joined the mayors of Atlanta, Chicago, D.C., Seattle, and Kansas City in demanding the expulsion of federal law enforcement from their cities and said President Donald Trump is “attacking progressive cities with a classic ‘divide and conquer’ tactics.”
The community in Kansas City, Missouri, came together on Saturday to show support and clean up a statue of a fallen officer after 150 protesters from the night before allegedly vandalized it.
During an interview with ABC News released on Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr announced that the Department of Justice will place “well over 100 federal agents” in Kansas City, MO to help state and local officials combat gang violence in
As protests over George Floyd’s death enter their fifth day and tensions between protesters and the police remain at an all-time high in some areas, some police officers and sheriff’s deputies across the country are standing with the protesters.
The Chiefs Super Bowl parade started with a bang when police used the PIT maneuver to stop someone from driving into the parade route.
Several Kansas City schools have canceled their classes Wednesday so their students can attend the 2020 Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.
Trump’s silly errors always end up benefiting him, not only for the reasons listed above, but by way of how the people who hate and despise him always, always, always respond.
Students at the University of Kansas are demanding that the university provide them with “barf bags” for Monday classes after Super Bowl Sunday to help them cope with their hangovers.
An actress who had a small role in the movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” is accused of fatally stabbing her mother inside a suburban Kansas City home.
A grocery store manager in Kansas City, Missouri, was honored recently for his quiet act of kindness for a stranger.
A beloved dog was reunited with her owner Thanksgiving Day after she went missing on Halloween night in Kansas City, Missouri.
One of the two suspects in yesterday’s Kansas City bar shooting is under arrest and the second suspect is still at large.
Robert “Beto” O’Rourke categorized Sunday’s Kansas City bar shooting as another example of an “epidemic,” pushing for more gun control action before the facts were known.
Four people were killed early Sunday morning after two gunmen reportedly opened fire in a Kansas City bar.
The daughter of a Kansas City firefighter who succumbed to cancer is working to provide life-saving equipment to firefighters across America so they have less of a chance of contracting cancer themselves.
Some much-needed help from her neighborhood mail carrier gave a surprise boost Wednesday to a woman in Kansas City, Missouri.
A Kansas City, Missouri, resident is celebrating a pothole’s three-month existence by throwing it a birthday party.
Officials with the University of Kansas Cancer Center are willing to pay good money to anyone who can locate a stolen inflatable colon.
A Kansas City man who allegedly once said he wanted to “kill all white people” and whom authorities say killed six white people at random has been indicted for three murders, a report says.
Kansas City Mayor Sly James bought and reviewed 1,000 Amazon products in an effort to entice the online retailer into building their second headquarters in the area. After Amazon asked cities to make them interested in settling there, alluding to
After recent allegations of fans screaming the n-word at players, the league has come up with a plan to deal with spectators who scream racial slurs: ban them.
A Kansas City man was arrested and charged with the deaths of two white men who were murdered by being shot from behind. He is also a suspect in three other, similar murders, police said.