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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Randy Lopez, a Kansas City, Kansas, school board member, says the task force is solely for listening to the community. He wants to push for immediate reform.
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Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree tells KCUR’s “Up To Date” that the prosecutor’s office used to pass around a noose when a case ended in a hung jury.
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While not surprising, given the merger was approved two months ago, the end of the Sprint era in Kansas City is near.
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Protests were notably calmer than the previous weekend after the police began de-escalation efforts and the mayor announced reforms, but protestors still called for Chief Rick Smith to be fired.
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Another protest rally is planned for this afternoon, as Kansas City assesses damage from last night. This story is updated regularly.
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Socially distant social justice events are planned for this weekend in Kansas City by people who want to express anger, fear, grief, sadness and solidarity about the killing of an African-American man by a Minneapolis policeman.
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Former Kansas City Police Officer Who Refuted Shooting Story Feels Forced Out, Apologizes to Victim'Ryan Stokes, an African-American man, was gunned down by a Kansas City Police Department officer in the Power & Light District in 2013. Now one of the officers at the scene who refuted the department's version of events has been pushed out.
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Brighton Gardens, a Prairie Village nursing home, was sued on Monday, the first lawsuit alleging wrongful death for a resident’s COVID-19.
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MRIGlobal’s latest mobile medical lab, dubbed Athena, contains state-of-the art diagnostic testing equipment which the U.S. Army will use for rapid coronavirus testing.
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MRIGlobal’s latest mobile medical lab, dubbed Athena, contains state-of-the art diagnostic testing equipment which the U.S. Army will use for rapid coronavirus testing.