Gabe Wallace, an Overland Park teen, heard the gunshots and jumped a barricade. Now he’s waiting to hear from two friends.
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Laura Bauer
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Laura Bauer
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Kansas City Star reporter. Love writing about children, the underprivileged and all types of crime and mayhem.
- BREAKING -- Missouri AG Eric Schmitt and DSS get court order to immediately shut down Agape Boarding School. But before it was executed Thursday morning, the judge who signed it decided he wanted more information.
- A man of strong faith, Clark Hunt will pray with his family before each game. And sometimes during. “That I will be the right kind of leader for whatever the day requires.” On Sunday, his team plays for the trophy named for his father. #Chiefs kansascity.com/sports/article…
- Three of the five Agape staffers charged last year with assaulting students still work at the school, sources tell The Star. "This needs to stop. Missouri should not be the bastion for child predators.” kansascity.com/news/state/mis…
- For the past year, The Star has investigated what happens to America’s children after states raise them. We talked with former foster kids, spent time in a homeless center for youth in Indiana and went inside several prisons, even Texas death row.
- A KC man said after he was hit by a police-fired "rubber bullet" at Saturday's protest, doctors told him he may not see out of his left eye again. “I may be brave and in the moment, but ... if I lost it, I lost it for a reason.”kansascity.com/news/local/art…
- Alabama man, charged last week with possessing child porn, once worked at Missouri boarding school. Former student: “The further we dig into the school, the more and more disgusting Agape is becoming and the type of people they had working for the them.”
- Here it is! The story every Chiefs’ fan, old-timer or newbie, MUST read. And one that some — including my husband, who has never gotten over ‘those kicks’ — really need to. Perfect column, @vgregorian! kansascity.com/sports/spt-col…
- Olathe East parent Nicole Maniscalco is eager to pick up her two students after a shooting inside the school this morning. “I’ll freak out later. They need to see how mom’s got this.”
- In the days before Lamar Hunt died in 2006, he talked with his four children. And the founder of the #Chiefs had a clear message: "Let's win a championship, and do it for the fans!" Winning today's #AFC Championship would send the team to the Super Bowl. kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kan…
- Eleven southeast Kansas school leaders attended a Branson retreat early last week. The first positive COVID-19 tests came back Friday. Now, six of the 11 have the virus. The others, including the superintendent, are in quarantine.
- Fans are still looking for family members and checking in with loved ones.
00:00 - Gotta read this column. Sam (@mellinger) sums up exactly what Patrick Mahomes did in yesterday's game. He "saw those ghosts, felt those ghosts, and then stepped through those ghosts. Nobody who witnessed in person will forget."
- Prisons in 12 states distributed The Star's survey. Of the inmates responding, 1 in 4 said they had been in foster care. “I moved homes every two weeks with hope ... I would be loved just for who I was. But my hopes were always crushed.”
