News & Issues
Stories from around the Kansas City Metro area on a variety of topics.
Alternative High School in Urban Core Celebrates $8 Million Expansion
Kansas City, Mo. – The DeLaSalle Education Center, which serves about 300 alternative students in Kansas City’s urban core, celebrated an 18,000 sq. ft expansion Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. “We’re celebrating the realization of a vision,” said Mark Williamson, Executive Director of DeLaSalle, to attendees at the ribbon cutting. “It is the building that our…
Teva Neuroscience move complete, from Missouri to Kansas
Teva Neuroscience held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 for its new headquarters located at the corner of College Boulevard and Nall Avenue in Overland Park, Kan. The company moved across the state line from a location near I-435 and Holmes Road. This location is used by Teva’s Specialty Medicines Pharmaceutical businesses. Their main products…
Gov. Jay Nixon stops plans for execution
Todd Feeback | KCPT News On Friday, Oct. 11, the planned execution of Alan Nicklasson, was stopped by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Nicklasson was scheduled to be injected with a lethal dose of the drug propofol. This was the first time drug was to be used in an execution. Ordinarily, it is used as an…
KCPT Partners With KCTV5 to Investigate High School Football and Brain Injury
This week, the PBS investigative series Frontline took you inside the closed world of the NFL in a two-hour expose, League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. “What did the NFL know, and when did they know it?” asks Mark Fainaru-Wada, whose new book on the correlation between football and brain trauma is the basis…
Concerning Concussions: Diagnosing Athletes in KC
Kansas City, Mo. – Emerging research suggests that the repeated hits football players endure during games and practice can cause permanent brain damage. “I think parents should be concerned,” said Dr. Randy Goldstein, the director of Youth Sports Medicine at The University of Kansas Hospital. “We are learning just in the last couple of years…
“If 10% of mothers begin to see this as a dangerous sport, this is the end of football in America."
This provocative quote comes from this week’s PBS Frontline expose League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis. Would you let your children play football? Connie and Ron Stile’s of Spring Hill, KS didn’t give it a second thought. But on October 28th, 2010, their son Nathan, a six foot, 175 pound senior and the…
Problems Persist in New KanCare System
KCPT Special Correspondent Sam Zeff takes anothe look at KanCare.
New $13.5 Million Culinary Academy Opens at Johnson County Community College
One of its most prized assets of Johnson County Community College has been its culinary program which has long been viewed as one of the best in the country. It has graduated some of the city’s top chefs, as well as some prestigious names in the cooking world. Now, they have a facility to…
KCMO Superintendent Declares ‘New Day’ for District During Annual Address
Kansas City, Mo. – The theme of Dr. Steve Green’s State of the Schools Address on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 at Paseo Academy was a ‘new day’ for Kansas City Public Schools. “Today I am proud to say that the state of the Kansas City Public Schools is much stronger, undeniably healthier and our achievement…
Your responses to our NFL Concussion Survey
FRONTLINE’s League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis airs on October 8, 2013. Before this investigation into traumatic brain injury and the NFL is broadcast, we want to hear what you think about the state of the sport and if football players should be compensated. So far, we’ve heard from a little over a dozen people, and…