Kansas City Before Daybreak: End Of Summer & MAGA Mourns Martyr

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Summer Daze 2025 Concludes

'Why say die?': Royals fans soak up last bit of baseball at final 2025 home game

Sunday afternoon, Royals fans soaked in the sights and sounds of this season's final regular-season home game.

Local Tech Talks Triumph

'The American dream is the Midwest': LaunchKC powers next generation of startup job creators

Relocating to Kansas City after winning a LaunchKC grant - and the community and infrastructure support that comes with it - gives Russel Karim's startup a centralized hub from which it can reach coast to coast, and even global partners.

Housing The Hard Way

See inside Jackson County's new $317 million jail as it nears completion

County officials say the jail will be completed in early December of this year.

Cowtown Charity Cont'd

Rebuilding Together Kansas City

Rebuilding Together Kansas City Executive Director Scott Hickox joins Kerrigan and Guest Host Steve Serrano to chat about their upcoming event.

Local Legend Endures

Humphrey Bogart, burlesque & a resident ghost: The history of KC's oldest theater

Folly productions have included theater, vaudeville, burlesque, striptease, X-rated movies, classical music and jazz as well as forays into boxing, bodybuilding and politics.

Show Must Go On For Celeb

Kim Kardashian shares thirst traps after ex Kanye West's film release

The reality TV star, 44, took to Instagram on Saturday to share photos of herself modeling a sheer, snakeskin-patterned outfit from her clothing brand Skims.

MAGA Weill-Remembered

Trump hails Charlie Kirk as 'American hero' as thousands fill memorial service

Kirk's wife, Erika, also delivers a tearful speech in which she says she forgives her husband's alleged killer.

Sketchy Cash Bag Deets . . . 

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a "deep state" probe in early 2025.

Cash Crisis Coming Soon

Fetterman: 'Absolutely the Wrong Thing' if Dems Shut Down the Government

Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said it would be absolutely wrong for Democrats to shut down the government. | Clips

Holy Land Hot Mess Engulfs Globe

World summit to meet on two-state solution as support grows for Palestinian state

France and Saudi Arabia will convene dozens of world leaders on Monday to rally support for a two-state solution, with several of them expected to formally recognise a Palestinian state - a move that could draw harsh Israeli and U.S. responses.

Europe Moves Against Vlad

German and Swedish jets intercept Russian military plane over Baltic Sea

This was the latest event after a series of incursions by Russian military aircraft into NATO airspace in September, leading to heightened tensions between NATO and Russia.

EPIC Good Times Torpedoed

Speedboat destroyed by U.S. Navy held 1,000 kilos of cocaine, Dominican Republic says

Authorities in the Dominican Republic said they have confiscated cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy.

Home Team Fades With Summer

Royals drop home finale 8-5 against Toronto

It was another rough start for Michael Wacha

Grigs Gives Umbrella Advice

Kansas City weather: Spotty showers Monday, heavier rain Tuesday, fall-like weekend

Scattered showers will linger across the Kansas City metro Sunday, but the week ahead brings more widespread rain chances and a taste of fall temperatures.

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