Second Harvest Community Food Bank wants to improve nutrition in food for the hungry in Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas.

Executive director David Davenport says it’ll cost more but it must be done. Davenport says as the community improves access to healthy food for everyone, the entire community benefits, from senior citizens, to the workforce, to schoolchildren.

The effort will begin by including more fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables in the products distributed to food pantries and kitchens. 

Boeing announced Wednesday morning it plans to shut down its Wichita facility.  Boeing told employees during a mandatory staff meeting.

Boeing Wichita employs 2,100 people and does work on only military contracts.

Last year, Boeing won the Air Force tanker contract worth $35 billion to build 179 refueling tankers.  The plan was to build the planes in Washington state and use Wichita workers for modification work.  That plan has now changed.

Boeing announced late last year that it was studying the future of its Wichita facility.

The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Campaign in Saint Joseph exceeded its goal, by a bunch. Donations totalled just over $350,000. The goal was $300,000. Funds raised in the Christmas Campaign help pay for Salvation Army programs year-round.

Second Harvest Community Food Bank has announced new hours, and put out a new call for volunteers. The Harvest House Pantry will be open three-hours per day five days per week.

Beginning January 9th, the Harvest House will offer extended hours for families and singles.

Monday 11:00 – 2:00
Tuesday 3:00 – 6:00
Wednesday 2:00 – 5:00
Thursday 3:00 – 6:00
Friday 2:00 – 5:00

If you would like to volunteer at Harvest House or have questions about the new hours, contact the Second Harvest Community Food Bank at (816) 364-3663.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests says the organization will keep fighting a court order to disclose records to an accused priest’s defense lawyers, despite a ruling by Missouri’s highest court.

SNAP’s David Clohessy made those comments on Tuesday, a day after the Missouri Supreme Court refused to intervene on SNAP’s behalf.

Last week, Jackson County Circuit Judge Ann Mesle ordered SNAP to disclose records that could include years of emails with victims, journalists and others. The order is related to an abuse lawsuit against the Rev. Michael Tierney and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

Defense lawyers sought the documents as evidence that the accuser’s attorney violated a gag order by giving details of the case to SNAP.

 

 

 

Typically, legislators chosen in special elections to fill unfinished terms are sworn in when the Missouri General Assembly convenes for its annual session in January. But four legislators-elect will wait until January 10th to be sworn in. The 96th General Assembly convenes Wednesday.

By waiting, the four lawmakers will serve less than a year of the terms they’re filling. The state constitution won’t count that time toward the eight-year limit. Thus, they will be eligible to seek four additional two-year terms in the House.

Legislative leaders say they have patched things up after the contentious special session this summer that many view as a bust. They hope to begin the session with votes on several bills, including reforms to the state’s workers’ compensation system, and an effort to shore up the beleaguered Second Injury Fund, which covers certain workplace injuries that aggravate pre-existing conditions.

Lawmakers will also tackle several measures related to the Joplin tornado, including a bill to suspend the prevailing wage in disaster zones, one that would remove damaged buildings from county tax rolls until they’re repaired, and a measure giving a tax break to anyone who builds a storm shelter.

An autopsy is planned on an inmate who died at the Chillicothe Correctional Center about a month after starting a sentence for drunken driving.

46-year-old Krechenna Kendrick of Kansas City died Friday morning, 37 days after entering the correctional system. She was arrested last March in Riverside, pleaded guilty in November to being a persistent offender to felony driving while intoxicated, and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox is lauding the efforts of three members of his department who he says “greatly excelled in helping save human life.”

Cox says Deputy Matt Ahal was the first to arrive at an emergency medical call November 30 in a rural area of the county.

Ahal administered CPR until medical personnel arrived.

Cox thanked Deputy Ahal, the caller, the ambulance crew and other emergency medical care providers for an “outstanding job in working together to save human life.”

Deputy Sheriff/Jail Administrator Sandra Shermuly likely saved the life of an inmate who was trying to hang himself on Christmas night. Cox says Shermuly lifted the 160 pound man up to permit breathing until two male trustees arrived. The group worked together to cut the man down and restore his breathing. The inmate was cleared by medical professionals and has since been transferred to a different facility for treatment.

Sergeant Michael Claypole is also being credited with preventing a suicide. Claypole was dispatched to a location in the eastern part of the county December 26, to the report of a man armed with a knife and suicidal. Claypole confronted the uncooperative individual, and in Cox’es words, “used minimal force in taking the person into custody and potentially saving his life.

The FBI is investigating a bank robbery at the Bank of Weston branch near Kansas City International Airport on Northwest 112th street just before noon Thursday.

Investigators say a lone black male wearing a hooded sweatshirt robbed the bank without displaying a weapon, and then fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash.

FBI Media Representative Bridget Patton says there were no injuries.

Patton released this surveillance photograph, depicting a black male, about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 185 pounds.

If you have information that could help investigators, call the FBI in Kansas City at 816-512-8200.

 

They can call the kansas city fbi office if they have information pertaining to the robbery. 8165128200.