Kansas City, MO

The Secret Santa has hit once again and this time he’s passing on his kindness at a Education Center, "DeLaSalle" to be exact. Santa arrived not only bearing candy canes but $50 to each student there. Over all he handed out 200 $50 bills, equally a whopping $10,000. WOW! Talk about a very giving Santa.

The original Secret Santa (Larry Stewart) revealed himself last year due to an illness, but before his death he asked a close friend if he’d take over for him. I say, he’d be very proud of the work the new Santa is doing.

Have you done anything in a way of kindness lately?

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A man that was shot over a basketball game, drives himself to the emergency room. The police believe the fight or beginning of it began at a basketball game down in Grandview. The shooting took place in a McDonald’s parking lot on Grandview Road, no other injuries were reported but some car damage. He’s expected to be fine.

There’s been a ton of commotion down in the Power & Light district, mostly due to the dress code but today we hear that someone has reported a sexual assault.

It happened around 1 a.m. this morning, at Howl At the Moon Bar. Apparently an ambulance was called for a woman that had bruises, the news found out she’d been sexually assualted. 

Investigators said the victim told them she was in the bar when a man allegedly took her into a bathroom stall and assaulted her.

Officers said they believe the man may have been an out-of-town visitor and may have taken a cab to a hotel afterward.

Hopefully they find the man that did this. They are currently looking at camera footage to try to figure out who he is.

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Not something you want to hear about but this is something the parents of Central Middle School had to hear about Tuesday afternoon when letters arrived with their children after school. Someone had actually fired shots near the school. It’s one thing to watch it in a movie, but when it strikes home it’s a whole other ball park. No one wants to worry their child is going to be shot while going to school.

The shooting took place near South 10th Street and Gilmore Avenue. As for whether any of the kids got hurt, the answer is no, however children were standing outside when the shooting took place. Any bullet that strayed could’ve hit one of them.

As of right now, no one has been identified as the shooter.

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Did “Inches-a-Weigh” really weigh out? Earlier this week three “Inches-A-Weigh” businesses/gyms had their doors locked and weren’t letting anyone in. Was there a reason behind it?

Seems the note on the door just said they were working hard to reopen. Reopen, why? Why did they close in the first place? Weren’t they making enough with all those memberships?

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Lafayette County Missouri has turned up a badly burned headless and handless body. They believe it to be a man, but currently have no way of identifying him/her. The body turned up near a road northeast of Concordia in a grassy area near trees about 10 feet from Davis Road.

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The newborn baby boy that was found in the trash bin earlier this week is doing well and actually has no issues. For those that don’t know, a man went to take out his trash only to discover a newborn baby boy, with his umbilical cord still attached was inside the trash and alive.

The baby was found in a dumpster near 5700 of Waterman, so if you know of anyone that was pregnant and is no longer this could be her baby. Police are looking for the mother of this infant. Had she simply given the baby over to the police or hospital there would’ve been no questions asked, she’d be fine, but by trying to kill him now she has some questions to answer.

The little infant is in state custody at the Children’s Hospital. I do wish him the best of luck in life.

oh bWondering how bad the Kansas City’s GM Strike will be for the plant itself? Well normally they have 2,700 workers an hour and now that they’ve went on strike they’ve got no one doing anything.

Will that hurt Chevrolet Malibu sales? I’m sure it will and as of right now there are actually 1000+ on strike. While this may not be all of the employees, it is definitely over half of them and I don’t see the other half working double shifts to make up for the loss.

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Early in the morning hours Kansas City was hit by a group of thunderstorms, one at 2 a.m. will be one that is remembered for a long time. While everyone stated it wasn’t a tornado that struck but high straight winds, either way the damage was big. Homes were lost and actually one is still lost and they haven’t been able to find it. These “strong winds” that struck, hit like a tornado, only hitting certain ones and le aving over 500 without power. This afternoon however the National Weather Service announced that two tornadoes did touch down, one in Gladstone. They registered it at an “EF2″ and it coursed through two blocks. The strange part about where this “tornado” struck was they never heard sirens, yet where we live in Lees Summit they were going off for about 15 minutes.

Damage that was done and recorded so far:

KC- 45 homes, 10 of which were severely damaged and 1 that still can’t be found

Northland-  120 homes, 3 destroyed and 1 that can’t be found.

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Even after the huge deal about the aircraft plant and everything the tax deal seems to have stalled out at the Senate as some oppose it. Without the tax deal the Aeropsace Plant factory will go somewhere else, taking the possible 1000+ jobs with it. This is something many need here in Kansas with all the recent job cuts.
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While most people were sleeping around 4:37 a.m., there were a few that felt the Midwest Earthquake. The quake was only registered at a 5.4 and centered just off West Salem, Illinois it did some damage but not much. But people in Kansas City and as far away as Michigan actually heard or felt it, animals seem to wake and bark to it while others had pictures fall off the wall. Currently there have been no reports of injuries due to the quake. Course this wasn’t the only one, about an hour ago there was another at 10:14a.m. at just about the same location that was a 4.6 magnitude.

Did you feel either one? If so what did it feel like? I thought I felt one the night before, but not this one. Kind of strange.

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On April 8th they put it to a vote and Kansas City became Smoke-free. What does this mean exactly? Basically it is just what you’d imagine, all places, including restaraunts and bars will become smoke-free within two months of the vote. By June 30th (my anniversary) there will be no smoking, not even after 9 p.m. or in places without children. This was a very close vote with the end result being 52 for the ban and 48 against.
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Early this morning the police got a tip on a burned-out SUV hidden behind 5100 block of Muncie Drive. The police were not sure at the time if it was the SUV of the murdered Raytown man, Brandon Fauntleroy-McDowel, who was shot to death when he struggled with carjackers.

If you have any information call: TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS. Currently there is an $11,000 reward leading up to an arrest.

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Earlier today, Judge John R. O’Malley announced that he found Terry Blair of Jackson County guilty of the 6 counts of 1st degree murder. It was discovered recently that Blair had been the murderer of the 6 women, two of which had been strangled.

Murdered Victime:
Sheliah McKinzie, 38
Anna Ewing, 42
Patricia Wilson Butler, 45
Darci I. Williams, 25
Carmen Hunt, 40
Claudette Juniel, 31

During the trial proof was also given that Blair had actually called 9-1-1 to report the crime and where the body would be found. Blair of course is still claiming his innocense, even when they discovered his semen in one of the victims, his response was he had sex with her but didn’t mean he killed her. One thing is for sure, he’ll be away for a very long time.

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Early this morning in Kansas City, the Lopez Family, a father and son looked out their window when they saw two robbers trying to take their car radio. Instead of just hiding behind a closed door and calling police they decided to take things into their own hands. Woo hoo! I’m sorry, I know police would want things handled differently but people are getting sick and tired of all the crime happening around them.
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