Aug 29 WATCH: The fleeting beauty of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s ‘rain shadows’ By Lorna Baldwin British artist Andy Goldsworthy gave the PBS NewsHour team the chance to see one of his now famous “rain shadows” while filming with him in Kansas City, Missouri. Goldsworthy has, for decades, made art works using his body -- climbing… Continue reading
Aug 27 Watch 5:40 News Wrap: Federal judge puts Missouri abortion law on hold In our news wrap Tuesday, a federal court in Kansas City blocked a Missouri law that bans most abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. The new statute had been scheduled to go into effect Tuesday, but the judge issued a… Continue watching
May 28 Court ruling raises possibility Kansas schools will not open By John Hanna, Associated Press Kansas faces a threat that its public schools won't open for the next school year after the state Supreme Court rejected some education funding changes made by the Republican-dominated Legislature. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 4:10 Generations apart, Ozark musicians find friendship through fiddling By PBS News Hour An accomplished Kansas musician known for her fiery style of fiddling recounts the special relationship she has with her 97-year-old fiddling mentor from Arkansas. The two discuss their life lessons learned from fiddling, the nuances of their individual sounds, and… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch Will the Royals cap their Cinderella story with a fairytale ending? By PBS News Hour The Kansas City Royals’ meteoric rise from Midwestern underdog to American League champs has electrified its hometown. Tonight, before the faceoff with World Series veterans, the San Francisco Giants, Gwen Ifill speaks Mike Pesca of Slate and Hampton Stevens of… Continue watching
Oct 20 Ahead of World Series, San Francisco radio bans song ‘Royals’ By Anna Christiansen San Francisco radio stations KOIT-FM and KFOG-FM have pledged to remove the signature chart-topping song "Royals" from their airwaves until the end of Major League Baseball's World Series. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch FULL VIDEO: Kansas community holds memorial service for shooting victims By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 17 At Kansas City memorial, Holder calls hate crimes an ‘affront to who we are’ By Joshua Barajas Attorney General Eric Holder told hundreds of Kansas City, Kan. mourners Thursday that all Americans stood with their community after three people were killed at two Jewish facilities, in what local and federal authorities have called a hate crime. Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch At Kansas City memorial, Holder calls hate crimes an ‘affront to who we are’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Apr 14 Justice Department to investigate whether Kansas shooting was a hate crime, Holder says By Joshua Barajas http://youtu.be/yBm0ntHOAJ0 Video by Associated Press The Justice Department will investigate whether federal hate crimes were committed in a Kansas shooting that left three people dead Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder said. Continue reading