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Police have identified the victim of a fatal accident at 9:19 p.m. March 29 in the 4400 block of Victory Drive. The victim was identified as Joseph Smith, age 33, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, according to a Kansas City, Kansas Police Department spokesman. He was driving a pickup truck. When police arrived at the accident location on Sunday night, they found a black pickup truck occupied by two males. The driver was found deceased at the accident. The passenger of the vehicle was taken to a hospital with critical injuries, police stated. The accident is under investigation by…

More COVID-19 testing will open soon in Wyandotte County, according to Dr. Allen Greiner, chief medical officer. Dr. Greiner talked about the additional testing in an internet presentation with U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 1. Wyandotte County currently has more than 100 positive COVID-19 cases. The Unified Government Health Department’s website at www.wycokck.org/COVID-19 has information and a self-reporting tool. There is already testing for COVID-19 going on at the Sharon Lee Family Health Care at 340 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, (the former Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care), Dr. Greiner said. The requirements for…

Shooting reported on North Thorpe A suspect shot at a home at 1:58 p.m. April 3 I the 200 block of North Thorpe, according to a social media post by the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. Officers were sent to an address on a shots fired call. The suspect shot at the house while the victims were inside, according to the report. There were no injuries reported. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister have announced a state-federal partnership to investigate and prosecute scammers attempting to prey on Kansans during the COVID-19 outbreak. The two offices agree…

Unified Government committees are scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. Monday, April 6, in the fifth-floor conference room at City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. The Neighborhood and Community Development Committee will begin at 5 p.m., followed by the Economic Development and Finance Committee. On the agenda for the EDF meeting is an agreement with Brancato’s Catering, which will allow development of the Downtown Campus project to proceed. The agreement, in which Brancato’s manages the Reardon Center at 5th and Minnesota, would end May 31 and would include a one-time payment of $51,000 to Brancato’s to cover…

Mayor David Alvey has asked residents to tell him their opinions on reopening society. Those opinions may be sent to the Unified Government website at https://us.openforms.com/Form/4b9766db-40b6-4098-a72c-0262e04df6f9. Late Thursday, the mayor announced a ReStart WYCO Committee that will provide guidance on how to safely reopen once the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are lifted. Mayor Alvey said in a video that if Gov. Laura Kelly decides not to extend the state’s stay-at-home order, which goes through May 3, then local communities would decide whether to implement their own stay-at-home orders. Wyandotte County is in discussions with Johnson and Leavenworth counties and Kansas City,…

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd DIst., helped secure additional funding for small businesses, hospitals, health care workers and COVID-19 testing, voting for the “The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act” Thursday. Rep. Davids has advocated for increased funding for small businesses in the Paycheck Protection Program since before it was rolled out. “In these unprecedented times, Kansas small business owners need help to pay their workers and keep their businesses afloat. I’ve been pushing Congress to quickly get more resources into these small business relief programs, and I’m glad that we were able to pass a bipartisan bill…

Sumner Academy of Arts and Science, a magnet school at 1610 N. 8th St. in Kansas City, Kansas, was named the best high school in Kansas by U.S. News and World Report. Sumner Academy also was ranked No. 50 in high schools in the United States, according to the website, https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/kansas/rankings. The annual U.S. News and World Report rankings said Sumner Academy students had a 91.8 rating on college readiness. The school, with 758 students enrolled, has a 100 percent graduation rate, the website reported. The U.S. News and World ranking report stated: “Students have the opportunity to take International…

by Nomin Ujiyediin, Kansas News Service Lawrence, Kansas — The more Kansas tests people for the coronavirus, the clearer it becomes that black Kansans are being disproportionately affected — a sobering trend that is true in communities across the United States. Black Kansans are three times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than white people, and more than seven times more likely to die from the virus. Latinos are also about three times as likely to test positive for COVID-19. The data mirrors trends seen in across U.S. cities like New York, Chicago and Detroit, as well as other…

The University of Kansas Medical School, with one of its campuses in Kansas City, Kansas, will graduate 52 medical students early to help in Kansas with the COVID-19 pandemic. The early graduation will come just at the time that COVID-19 is rising and may peak in Kansas, according to doctors at a University of Kansas Health System news teleconference Friday morning. The announcement came as Wyandotte County reported 119 positive COVID-19 cases at 8:15 a.m. Friday, an increase from 108 positive cases here Thursday evening. Kansas had 552 positive cases on Thursday morning. Many of the new doctors will be…

Jalen Davis (KCKCC photo) Calvin Slaughter (KCKCC photo) by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC The fact that a national tournament berth was earned but then lost cannot take away from one of Kansas City Kansas Community College’s finest men’s basketball seasons. The first ever Jayhawk Conference championship and a Plains District title will forever lock the 2019-2020 Blue Devils into KCKCC basketball lore. Off to a 2-8 start, the Blue Devils came storming down the stretch, winning 11 of their last 12 games and a national tournament berth before being shut down by the coronavirus pandemic. “A phenomenal year,” said Brandon Burgette,…