Peggy Lowe
Criminal Justice and Investigations Reporter at KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO)
I cover justice and public safety @kcur, Kansas City's NPR station. Host and reporter for "Overlooked." Faculty advisor @RooNewsUMKC
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1 week ago |
kcur.org | Peggy Lowe
A third suspect has been arrested in what police are calling a "scheme" that led to the death of Adan Manzano, a Kansas City Telemundo sports reporter who was in New Orleans covering Super Bowl 59, Louisiana police said Friday. Christian Anderson, 33, was arrested and charged in the Feb. 5 death of Manzano, 27, who was covering the Super Bowl appearance by the Kansas City Chiefs.
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3 weeks ago |
kcur.org | Peggy Lowe
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of suicide. Five days before his Dec. 2 federal trial, Roger Lee Golubski, a retired Kansas City, Kansas, police detective facing potential prison time, wrote four letters. Two were addressed to his 41-year-old son, Matthew. The first, labeled “Plans-Do List,” outlined Golubski’s funeral arrangements, where he was to be buried and what he should be wearing, along with property and financial concerns.
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Peggy Lowe |Byron Love
Every year, 2 million seedlings from the George O. White State Forest tree nursery make their way to front yards and fields all over the region. We'll hear from the staff growing and cultivating trees at the 100-acre site in Licking, Missouri. KBIA’s Jana Rose Schleis brings us an audio postcard from the Ozarks. Contact the show at [email protected]. Follow KCUR on Instagram and Facebook for the latest news. Kansas City Today is hosted by Peggy Lowe.
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Peggy Lowe
Leonard Zeskind, a nationally-known expert on the white national movement and founder of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, has died. He was 75 years old. Zeskind died peacefully at his Kansas City home after a long battle with cancer, said Devin Burghart, the institute’s president and executive director.
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1 month ago |
kcur.org | Peggy Lowe
Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson is supporting a proposed change in Missouri law that would add animal control officers as mandatory reporters of child and elder abuse, saying it would serve as a tool to combat the rise in domestic violence homicides. So far this year, 12 homicides in Kansas City are attributed to domestic violence, matching the total set last year, which is an “alarming rise,” according to Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves.
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