Peggy Lowe
Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.
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The attorney for Andrew D. Lester says the 84-year-old has been threatened, harassed and called a racist since the Black teen's shooting made national headlines, and is asking the case be sealed so Lester can have a fair trial. -
Prosecutors in Clay County, Mo., say an 84-year-old Kansas City man is charged with two felonies for shooting Black teenager Ralph Yarl, who knocked on his door after going to the wrong address.
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Black Lives Matter activists who rejected Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith's invitation to meet say they refuse to be a part of law enforcement's "performative politics."
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Rose Calvin’s family has wondered about her murder for 24 years – and they have questions about the role of a former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective in her death. So do social justice advocates.
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Ethan Ridings, 20, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for killing two Kansas, City, Kansas, 19-year-olds during a small-time drug deal. His friend who involved him in the deal was placed on probation.
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“She abused her power and took her oath to a whole other level – her and the police department.”
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Social justice advocates in Wyandotte County called the FBI's announcement "eye-opening" and hoped it would help build trust with the community.
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A federal grand jury indictment unsealed on Wednesday says Kenneth R. Hubert, 63, of Marionville, Missouri, threatened to “murder” U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver and another congressman from Tennessee.
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Derrick D. Wren Jr., 28, was charged Wednesday with shooting three-year-old Marcus Haislip III in May 2017. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker urged people to find other ways to resolve conflicts than “to pick up a gun.”
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A Victim's Family Wonders Why A Man Convicted In a Double Killing In Kansas City, Kansas, Won't ServA Johnson County man received probation after pleading guilty to two felonies resulting from a drug deal. The victim’s mother wonders why her son is dead and one of the guilty men is free.
