Crime, Kansas City

Jackson County prosecutor candidate Tracey Chappell knows all about Kansas City’s crime problem. She hears it from the accused themselves

As a defense attorney, Tracey Chappell hears her clients in surrounding counties actually lament they hadn’t been arrested in Jackson County instead – where the prosecutors are notoriously soft on… Read More

Kansas City

Not a good sign when you first learn of local murder by reading the Irish Times

At 7:37 a.m. on Thursday morning the Irish Times arrived in my email feed with the unsettling server line, “Irish chef shot dead after altercation outside his restaurant in Kansas.”… Read More