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Central JaxCo Fire offers tips to stay safe with fireworks on 4th of July
The Fourth of July is always a busy day for fire departments across the United States, but the Central Jackson County Fire Protection District has some tips for staying safe around fireworks.
Blue Springs town hall explaining upcoming bond issue election scheduled
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (KCTV) - Leaders in Blue Springs will host a meeting to discuss an upcoming special election. Voters will decide August 6, whether to approve a bond issue to fund road improvements and road projects through the city. The issue will appear on the ballot as:. Leaders will...
One Last Play: A Former All Star Helped Kill Stadium Financing for His Old Team
Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Summer 2024 magazine. You can subscribe here. In late March, some of the biggest names in professional sports appeared in a TV ad urging residents of Jackson County, Mo., to vote. It wasn’t an anodyne appeal to civic duty. Instead, the stars — including Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, fresh off the latest of their three Super Bowl wins in the past five years — wanted voters to back a sales tax to fund renovations for the Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium and help pay for a new stadium for the Kansas City Royals.
Lutheran Senior Services, Diakon agreement to combine comes to fruition
Diakon Senior Living operations and its four continuing care retirement / life plan communities officially became part of Lutheran Senior Services on Monday. The action marks the completion of an agreement signed in March. LSS ranked 15th in the country on the 2023 LeadingAge Ziegler 200 list of largest not-for-profit...
Decision approaching on Missouri law to make celebratory gunfire illegal
PECULIAR, Mo. (KCTV) - With the Fourth of July approaching, some are getting excited to celebrate. Others are also dreading the bullets that come toward them or their homes. Last year, the Kansas City Police Department’s Shotspotter recorded 193 rounds of gunfire between 6 p.m. on July 3 and 6 a.m. on July 5. That only includes areas where Shotspotter technology is placed, so the number citywide is bound to be higher.
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