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The Kansas City Royals screwed themselves yet still blame everyone else

The Kansas City Royals lost yesterday. Local taxpayers decisively rejected a sales tax plan that would have provided funding for a new ballpark and stadium renovations (for the Chiefs). Clearly, the public said no thank you to funding another billionaire owner’s venue while receiving nothing in return. Why couldn’t locals see that this deal was worth it? The Royals committed nearly every blunder…

[superheroesfordoaareport]

Thank You, Bono, For “Saving My Life” (And Doa’a’s Too)!

Photos from back in the day of (from left to right) Joe Hoffman, aka “Cowtown Joe” and Bono when they both were sporting mullets By Joe Hoffman, aka “Cowtown Joe”, Program Director of Super Heroes for Doa’a Recently, while I was working from home doing my regular job, I was listening to U2’s incredible X-Radio station on Sirius XM. And after a few moments of rocking out to the killer tunes…

[porterdavis]

Great. Now can they bring back the editor's mother, a previous editor of the newspaper, back from the dead? She died the day after the raid, and her family points to the stress of the experience as a probable cause.

Local cops and local DAs acting in concert are seldom (if ever) your friends.

[tayviswift]

Please keep the Chiefs and Chiefs fans in your thoughts. There has been a shooting near the KC Chiefs parade.

[ausetkmt]

The Kansas City police officer who shot and killed a DoorDash driver behind the wheel of his speeding vehicle as his girlfriend sat in the passenger’s seat will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said.

Amaree’ya Henderson, 25, had just completed his last delivery on April 26 when he and his girlfriend were pulled over for an alleged traffic violation. During the stop, Henderson asked his girlfriend to use FaceTime to contact his mother, who set out for the scene.

At some point before his mother arrived, Henderson started to drive away from the stop. That attempt to leave left one of the officers between the door of the speeding vehicle and Henderson, Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree said in a Friday statement explaining the decision not to bring criminal charges.

“At the time the officer discharged his weapon, the suspect was driving the car at a high rate of speed while the officer was stuck between the door and the driver’s compartment,” Dupree said. “While holding on to the moving vehicle, the officer told the suspect to stop.”

After Henderson allegedly “refused commands”, the officer shot and killed him, Dupree said, noting that state law permits police to use deadly force when facing “immediate danger of serious bodily harm or death.”

Henderson’s mother, who was still on a FaceTime call with her son when he was killed, said that police body-camera footage she reviewed shows that the officer was in the wrong.

“[The officer] was in no danger,” mom Pauletta Johnson, girlfriend Shakira Hill, and family attorney Nuru Witherspoon said Friday, according to local outlet KCUR. “He made choices that directly violated the use-of-force policies in place to protect citizens and himself.”

Authorities have not publicly identified the officer by name.

The video tells a different story than that described by prosecutors, they said in a joint statement.

“The body cam shows a disgusting display of excessive force, and the unlawful, unnecessary killing of another young, unarmed Black man,” the statement said.

The footage is yet to be publicly released.

Kay Harper Williams, another attorney representing the Henderson family, called for that to change.

“The police department has the ability to release the footage to the public, now that the investigation is closed,” Williams said, according to local outlet KSHB. “Pauletta Johnson said it best. If there is nothing to hide, then KCKPD should release the full, unredacted video to the public.”

The department said in a statement that it is now reviewing whether the officer followed policy.

"As with all officer-involved shootings, now that the independent investigation has taken place and the Wyandotte County District Attorney has conducted his review, KCKPD will now conduct an administrative review to determine that policy was followed; and if any changes to existing policy are warranted," the department said. "Due to potential civil litigation, the Department will make no further statements regarding the incident."

[nastylillad]

I am pretty sure I know whart fic you are talking about

Was it a chapter from the Welcome Hoe one on ao3?

Cause if it is OH MY GOD i fucking loved that fic so damn much i have it saved lmao

LMAO YEAH SMXH BKJSHDCB KSHB hello fellow smut reader i am perceiving u

i enjoy top howdy very much and there really is a dry spout of nasty howdy times

[ralfmaximus]

Weather Balloon

Dale’s hands were shaking so badly he could barely dial the phone.

“Whiteman Air Force base. How may I direct your call?”

Dale took a deep breath. He had to sound calm, credible.

“I just saw a UFO. I mean, I’d like to report a sighting—“

“One moment please,” came the reply. No judgment, no surprise, no laughter. Maybe they handled this sort of thing all the time. Dale listened to military recruitment ads while he waited, which was good because it allowed him to organize his thoughts.

“Sergeant Donnelly.”

The voice on the phone sounded weary.

“I’d like to report an unidentified flying object. A machine, actually, hovering over my property. It was circular, maybe 60 feet in diameter, and it emitted a blue glow—“

“Son, hold on a sec. You saw a what?”

Dale sighed. “A flying saucer. I swear, that’s what it was. Hovering in broad daylight, over—“

“Now, son,” he imagined Sergeant Donnelly as a grizzled old war vet, stuck answering phones, but still doing his duty, patiently dealing with the public. “I’ll be happy to take your report, but honestly? Most of these things turn out to be regular military aircraft, tricks of the light—“

“It was metal,” Dale interrupted. “And glowing blue. It hovered over my yard, then shot off at thousands of miles an hour. It was not a plane.”

“I see. One moment, please.”

The line clicked, and Dale caught the last few seconds of the recruitment ad before it looped. Donnelly returned quickly.

“Okay, now I’m recording. Tell me what you saw again.”

Dale repeated what he’d said, and included every detail he could think of. Eventually Donnelly thanked him for his report and made end-of-call sounds.

“That’s it?” Dale asked. “That’s all? What happens next?”

“Well, son, frankly… nothing. We file a copy with the FAA and keep it here for 90 days before it gets tossed. Unless you got photographic evidence?”

Dale bit his lip. “No. I didn’t have my phone.”

“So. No photos, no evidence, just… a citizen saw something weird. Not much to go on, you understand.”

“But what do you think it was? You’re the expert. You know what I saw. Surely you know something.”

Donnelly was silent for many seconds before answering.

“You saw a weather balloon. That’s what I’d go with. A weather balloon.”

Dale’s frustration and rage boiled over. “That was no balloon! I told you—“

“Yep. Definitely a weather balloon. I’m even writing it down here. Resolved: Weather Balloon. You have a nice day, hear?”

The line clicked and Dale nearly threw the phone. He paced his living room, peered out between the drapes at the sky, went outside, came back in. He dug his camera out of the closet and replaced the batteries before slipping it into a front pocket.

Weather balloon! He ground his teeth in fury.

But then a thought occurred. Ten seconds of Googling gave him the phone number he wanted.

“KSHB ActionNews, your Kansas City source for news! How may I direct your call?”

“Weather desk. I’d like to speak with a meteorologist, please.”

The music-on-hold was soft and jazzy, and after ten minutes Dale was about to hang up. What was he hoping to accomplish? It was a silly notion after all, not bound to resolve anything… but just as he’d decided to hang up a new voice greeted him.

“Parker, meteorology.”

Dale decided to be careful. Raving about UFOs was a bad idea.

“Um… what do you know about weather balloons?”

Long pause. “You mean in general? Like, you’re doing a school science project?”

Dale laughed. “No, no… I mean, what do they look like?”

“Ah. Thought you sounded a little old for school. Weather balloons… well, big, round, and usually silver. Close to the ground they’re kind of torpedo shaped, like a really long jellyfish. See one at altitude and it’s round, more traditionally balloon-like. Why?”

“Well,” Dale took a breath. “What’s the chance I’d see one floating around? Kind of… hovering… over my neighborhood?”

Another long pause as if Meteorologist Parker was adjusting the phone, maybe sitting down. “Whereabouts you live?”

Dale told him. This earned another long pause.

“Mister Parker? You still there?”

“Oh, hmm," Parker eventually replied. "Just trying to decide… oh hell, why not? The truth? Your chances of seeing a weather balloon out there are zero. Zilch. None.”

Dale blinked, stood up straighter. “Tell me why.”

“Well, it’s very simple. Weather forecasters haven’t used ‘em for close to 40 years! Last balloon I remember working with was… 1978? Yeah. Something like that. Even then it was kind of cute. I mean, we’ve had Doppler radar, satellites, remote wireless reporting stations… for years. Hell, even I get most of my weather from Google! So you seeing a weather balloon in this day and age is kinda impossible.”

“I see,” Dale whispered. The saucer was back. He could see it hovering over treetops, between the gap in the living room curtains.

“So tell me why you called… no, lemme guess. You saw a UFO. Right?”

“Um,” Dale watched the saucer approach low over the trees, branches waving gently below. It emitted a blue glow, pale but visible in broad daylight. There was a hissing noise, like static.

“Hello? What?” Parker sounded agitated. “Oh crap, I have another call, one sec.”

Parker put Dale on hold as the saucer descended in front of the trees. Dale held the phone to his ear listening to smooth jazz, watching the saucer come in for a landing.

The phone clicked, buzzed, and a familiar voice returned to the line.

“I changed my mind,” he heard Sergeant Donnelly say. “Not a weather balloon. Swamp gas. Repeat that back to me, son.”

The saucer had set down, the blue glow fading. A seam appeared in the side, like a doorway. The seam expanded into a black gap.

Dale tried to say something, anything, but all he could manage was a hoarse whisper.

“Close enough. Yep. Definitely swamp gas. And leave the nice weather people alone, you hear me? We’ll be in touch.”

The phone clicked dead in his hand. A slab of saucer-metal had separated from the hull and lowered to the ground, like a ramp. A pair of F-16s roared overhead and the sound of helicopters came to him from the distance, growing closer.

“Swamp gas,” Dale whispered into the dead phone.

[thatstormygeek]

Hey, remember when the cops raided that newspaper editor's house and then his mom died the next day?

The number of legal guardrails authorities blew through Aug. 11 in their quest to seize computers and terrorize, intentionally or not, the publishers and staff of the Record should be of concern to anyone who cares about democracy. New reporting by KSHB-TV makes it clear that it wasn’t just local authorities who kicked federal and state protections in considering the execution of a search warrant on a newspaper, but that the state’s highest investigative agency, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, knew about the impending raid — and did nothing to stop it.

Cody had left his role as a captain with the Kansas City, Missouri, police department under a cloud of scrutiny in April and took the job at Marion, a town of fewer than 2,000 in east central Kansas. In early October, after being suspended by the city council, Cody resigned as Marion police chief. Viar, the magistrate judge, was the target of a disciplinary complaint from a Topeka resident who was outraged Viar would sign off on the warrant. On Dec. 6, the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct said in a letter it had dismissed the complaint, saying there wasn’t evidence of “incompetence.”

[bumblee-stumblee]

A woman gripped with a shock collar manages to escape from the house where she was held captive and was repeatedly raped

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A 39-year-old Missouri man was is behind bars for allegedly holding a woman captive in his basement for more than a month, where he’s accused of keeping her hands and feet bound and raping her.

Timothy M. Haslett was taken into custody on Friday and charged with first-degree aggravated rape, first-degree kidnapping, and second-degree assault, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit, officers with the Excelsior Springs Police Department on Oct. 7 responded to a call about “a female who showed up at the front door wearing a trash bag, metal collar with a padlock, and duct tape around her neck.” The woman — identified in the document by the initials “T.J.” — allegedly told the caller that she had been held against her will at a nearby residence since the previous month.

“Upon the officers’ arrival at the residence, they found T.J. She was wearing latex lingerie and had a metal collar around her neck with a padlock and duct tape around her neck,” the affidavit states. “T.J. advised that a man by the name of Timothy picked her up on Prospect in Kansas City at the beginning of September 2022. She advised Timothy had kept her in a small room in the basement that he had built. He kept her restrained in handcuffs on her wrists and ankles. She was able to get free when he left to take his child to school.”

Excelsior Springs Emergency Medical Services (EMS) removed the collar — described in reports as like a homemade shock collar — from around T.J.’s neck because it was restricting her breathing and transported her via ambulance to Excelsior Springs Hospital. A detective rode in the ambulance with T.J., who said she could point out the residence if they drove past the home. She soon pointed out Haslett’s address located in the 300 block of Old Orchard Street.

“T.J. further advised that Timothy had whipped her while she was restrained,” the affidavit states. “There were injuries on [redacted] back that were consistent with this description. T.J. advised that Timothy had raped her multiple times and frequently while she was held as a hostage.”

Police say they did a records check and found that Timothy Haslett was listed as the resident for the home T.J pointed out. Officers then set up a perimeter around the residence and waited for him to arrive home.

Haslett at approximately 8:41 a.m. arrived back at the residence driving a gray Dodge Ram pickup truck. Officers conducted a felony traffic stop and “took Haslett into custody on an unrelated animal control violation,” per the affidavit.

Associate Clay County Circuit Court Judge Louis Angles issued a search warrant for Haslett’s home. Officers searched the interior and “observed a room in the basement consistent with what T.J. had described.” Investigators also say they found no other victims inside but did recover “numerous” firearms from inside the the home.

Investigators with the Clay County Missouri Sheriff’s Office and the Kansas City Missouri Police Department are assisting police in the investigation.

Authorities have remained tight-lipped about details uncovered in the investigation. The Clay County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday explained the reason for not releasing more details in a Tuesday Facebook post.

“It will take time to interview people involved. It will take time to use that information to see if the suspect in this case is connected to any more crimes. And when those things have happened, there will still be very little law enforcement can share until the case goes to court,” the post read in part. “Because if you want justice for victims and for people who have broken the law, that’s what has to happen.”

The neighbor who let T.J. into her home and called 911 revealed some details about that night in an interview with Kansas City, Missouri NBC affiliate KSHB-TV.

Lisa Johnson reportedly told the station that when she first saw T.J. “hunched over” and crawling up the front steps, she immediately went to call 911, but T.J. became scared and ran next door.

“It frightened her. She told me if I called the cops he’d kill us both,” Johnson reportedly said.

Another neighbor said the victim spoke about friends that Haslett had allegedly killed.

“She made the comment about her friends that they didn’t make it and that he had killed them,” a neighbor reportedly told Kansas City, Missouri CBS affiliate KCTV. “I’m really hoping that they find evidence about her friends. If anything, she can have closure about her friends and know that if something did happen, if she witnessed something with her friends, that they can figure it out. That way she can have closure and know that her friends had justice too.”

Haslett was arraigned on Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty to the aforementioned charges. He requested a public defender to represent him in the proceedings.

He is currently being held in Clay County Jail on $500,000 bond.

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The Kansas City Royals are showing how NOT TO go about asking for taxpayer help with a new ballpark

In November of last year, the Kansas City Royals finally told the world that they would be leaving their current ballpark for a new one in 2030! The plans included the ballpark being downtown and the total cost being around $2 billion. The Royals owner, John Sherman, claimed in a letter to fans that a new ballpark was financially necessary for the team’s future success. He also mentioned that a…

[superheroesfordoaareport]

Wednesday Updates Will Begin on May 10!

Super Heroes, Starting May 10, we will be posting regular Wednesday Updates in our humble little blog as we work towards holding our fantastic fall fundraiser- “A Merry Marvel Movie Matinee at the Fabulous Folly Theater”– which is being held on Saturday, September 16. This awesome autumnal event is being held to help raise funds and increase awareness for Super Heroes for Doa’a and Children’s…

[gio-goose]

Prolly wont be doing a sin kiske sunday tomorrow. My head is filled with too many other ideas rn HSHSHSHSH and I got an presentation to finish which i‘ll be speedrunning KSHB,SHB,HBS

[bngrc]

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KSHB 41 新闻台: 在Missouri省的Kansas城市里100街附近高速公路上出现了一个有大约六到七洗衣机的尺寸的天坑， 因此堵北行车。 Norma S'Kok: 除了公制美国人用任何随便制测量

I'm translating viral English tweets into Mandarin for language practice. Feel free to suggest tweets for translation or correct my grammar in the notes.

[abcnewspr]

ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES RHIANNON ALLY AS CO-ANCHOR OF ‘WORLD NEWS NOW’ AND ‘AMERICA THIS MORNING’

ABC News president Kim Godwin sent the following note to the news division announcing that Rhiannon Ally has been named co-anchor of “World News Now” and “America This Morning.”  

Credit: Bryan Engel

Team –  

I am pleased to announce that Rhiannon Ally has been named co-anchor of “World News Now” and “America This Morning.”  

Rhiannon is an accomplished journalist with a wide variety of experience who first joined our ABC News team in December 2021 as a freelance correspondent for NewsOne and substitute anchor for our overnight programs. In those roles, she expertly covered high-profile stories, including the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell and the war in Ukraine.  

Before joining our ABC team, Rhiannon co-anchored the primary weekday evening broadcasts, including the Emmy Award-winning 10 p.m. program, for KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. In that role, she anchored many breaking news events, as well as the Kansas City Royals’ World Series championship. Prior, Rhiannon was co-anchor at WFOR-TV in Miami, Florida, where she anchored coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, Hurricane Sandy and the papal conclave when Pope Benedict retired. While at WFOR, Rhiannon, a mom of three, also created her own weekly series focusing on modern parenting.  

Rhiannon also worked at WCBS in New York as a substitute news anchor and entertainment reporter, and co-hosted Meredith Broadcasting’s nationally syndicated lifestyle program “Better TV,” where she conducted one-on-one interviews with newsmakers that included Madonna, Denzel Washington and Gloria Steinem. She is also the author of the children’s book “Mommy, Please Don’t Go to Work!,” inspired by her children and mothers trying to balance it all.  

In this new role, Rhiannon will work alongside our talented overnight team. I am extremely proud of this dedicated group whose work continues to shine as “ATM” dominates the competition in all demos, and “WNN” is consistently a strong performer in overnight.  

Please join me in congratulating Rhiannon.  

#oneabcnews

Kim

[diebythegun2022]

KSHB 41 Kansas City News: LIVE UPDATES | 3 children remain hospitalized at Children's Mercy; all expected to recover

When an official says they expect a gunshot victim to make a "full recovery" they mean "not die." They expect the victim to not die. "Full recovery" means "leave the hospital alive." Except for the most superficial injuries, gun shot wounds are serious damage from which it is very difficult and unlikely to return to full body function and absence of pain not to mention the psychological injury. So, no, these 22 people are unlikely to make a "full recovery" and more and more it is looking like this is one of our first "accidental" mass shootings. Not intentional, not premeditated, just some folks with guns who got upset and started shooting, probably at each other. Probably missing their intended target with each pull of their trigger discharging hot metal into a densely packed crowd.