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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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker dismissed 31 counts against a towing company owner after audio surfaced of Brad Lemon, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, threatening criminal action if a family car wasn't immediately released.
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Iola Mae Herviey was one of the first people to die of the coronavirus while living at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation, the Kansas City, Kansas, facility where 36 others died. Riverbend has had the most COVID-19 deaths of any nursing home in the state.
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This year could see a surge in provisional ballots, a special fail-safe ballot designed to ensure that every vote counts, because some voters are worried their mail-in ballot could get lost.
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Abortion is already an issue, as Missouri’s Josh Hawley, who Trump has said he’d like on the high court, vowed to fight for a replacement who will undo Roe v. Wade.
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Although "I can't breathe" has become a rallying cry of outrage about police brutality since the killing of George Floyd in May, the Kansas City 15-year-old used the same words in a November 2019 incident.
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The killing of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot while asleep in his bed, is among the many violent crimes during a summer of record-breaking homicides and heartbreak.
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Coleman, a fierce advocate for young sexual assault survivors, took her own life on Tuesday. “She was so brave but she was tired and scared,” her mother wrote on Facebook.
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The two officers were indicted in May on misdemeanor charges in the beating of Breona “Briya” Hill, but a grand jury upped the charges to felonies after two law enforcement trainers said the officers’ actions weren’t justified.
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Although expected since April, the move marks a new era in one of downtown’s largest attractions.
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has been looking into allegations of sexual violence involving Roger Golubski, who is now retired.