Laura Ziegler
Laura Ziegler began her career at KCUR as a reporter more than 20 years ago. She became the news director in the mid 1980's and in 1988, went to National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. as a producer for Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon.
In 1993, she came back to Kansas City as the Midwest correspondent for National Public Radio. Among the stories she covered - the floods of 1993, the ongoing farm crisis and rural affairs, and presidential campaigns.
After the birth of her 3rd child, Laura returned to KCUR as producer of Under the Clock, a weekly talk show broadcast live from Union Station. It was hosted by former Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver. When he was elected 5th district Congressman in 2002, Laura returned to KCUR as a part-time reporter and producer.
Laura has won numerous awards for her work, including three regional Edward R. Murrow awards.
In 1992, Laura was awarded a Jefferson Fellowship in Journalism with the East West Center at the University of Hawaii which took her to China, Japan, Burma, Bangladesh and Thailand. In 1990, she was part of a reporting trip to the then -Soviet Union with the American Center for International Leadership.
Laura graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Anthropology from Vassar College.
She, her husband, and their three children - Julia, Ellie, and Benjamin, live with Laura's father in the house in which she was born.
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Three people were dead and five more were left with non-life threatening injuries after a shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning near 57th Street and Prospect Avenue. -
In the first test of its kind since the Dobbs ruling, Kansas voters have decided not to amend the state constitution, keeping abortion legal in the state — for now.
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Ukrainian reporter Anna Yakutenko spent several months training in the states, including at KCUR. Now a freelance journalist in her home country, Yakutenko escaped Kyiv with her family days before Russia began widespread bombing.
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Opening Arguments Begin In Trial Of Kylr Yust, Charged in Murders of Kara Kopetsky And Jessica RunioThe prosecution and defense presented opening arguments Monday in the trial of Kylr Yust who is accused of murdering two young women whose disappearances occurred 10 years apart.
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Funeral Services Held For Civil Rights Icon Alvin Sykes Who Friends Say 'Bent The Arc Of Moral JustiMemorial services for Sykes were held Thursday morning at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church. Colleagues, friends and family spoke from the pulpit, virtually and via Facebook Live remembering Sykes' many accomplishments.
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Samantha Mungai, an immigrant from Kenya, left her child alone while she went to work in July of 2017. This is the story of what participants in this case, and those who work in the system, say that parents who are Black, low income, or immigrants can face as they try to be reunited with their kids.
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Sisters Corita Bussanmas and Berta Sailer co-founded Operation Breakthrough in 1971. Bussanmas could be stern, but she loved every child she cared for.
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Sykes was an icon among Kansas City's civil rights activists. While he had a hard-headed, solo working-style, his success in drawing attention to unsolved civil rights cases is recognized nationwide.
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Advocates in Belton concerned about their neighbors, who live in camps surrounding the city, are frustrated officials have not built a permanent shelter.
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The Chiefs were favored to win Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. But a Super Bowl championship back-to-back win hasn't happened in 17 years — and wouldn't happen this year either.
