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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This week on 4Star Politics, FOX4’s John Holt and The Kansas City Star’s Dave Helling are joined by political strategists Annie Presley and Jason Grill and kick off their discussion focusing on Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas’ police funding battle. Last month Mayor Lucas and a majority of the city council …

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — People who are computer challenged or don’t have internet access, today are receiving help to register for COVID-19 vaccinations. A unique partnership is helping serve vulnerable populations in the urban core. Hy-Vee pharmacists are hosting another community vaccination clinic Monday at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. More than 600 vaccinated during …

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SHAWNEE, Kan. — When temperatures and wind chills dip below freezing, people who spend time outside can get into medical trouble in a matter of minutes.  Emergency rooms around the metro are seeing more patients with frostbite and hypothermia. Dr. Bradley Chapman is an Emergency Medical Physician at the ER of Shawnee.  “Being out there …

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LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas has issued public health bans against members of five fraternities, according to a letter sent to students Friday. “We are aware of recent social activities hosted by students in violation of university and county health regulations — activities that put our community’s health at risk,” said Tammara Durham, …

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — An attempted Christmas morning burglary involved Overland Park police and a suspect exchanging gunfire at a Micro Center on Metcalf Avenue. Officers went to the store around 2 a.m., after the 30-year-old suspect tripped an alarm. When they attempted to arrest the man, he shot them, and officers returned fire. “They …

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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri says 19 more students and one former have been disciplined for violating the school’s COVID-19 policies. MU said the punishments all stemmed from hosting gatherings of more than 20 people, which is a violation of a Boone County health order. Five students have been suspended for the remainder …

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ALTUS, Okla. (KFOR) — Officials say three children accused of vandalizing a school in Oklahoma were arrested this weekend. Authorities with the Altus Police Department say the kids are accused of breaking into the Altus Intermediate School. Investigators say the school sustained at least $50,000 in damages. Officials said surveillance cameras inside the school captured …

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Please enable Javascript to watch this video KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The new reality of going to school and working online from home is a big challenge for many metro families without access to technology.  To help fix that, a major effort aims to get computers where they are needed most, and you can help …

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Please enable Javascript to watch this video OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — “This is a public health crisis,” said Dr. Lee Norman, the Kansas State Health officer and Secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment. Both Kansas and Missouri have their first presumed positive COVID-19 novel Coronoavirus cases. The one in Missouri is …

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Brian McClendon shouldn’t have felt the need to leave his home state of Kansas, he said. But he saw tech opportunities elsewhere and spent about 30 years in Silicon Valley, where he not only invested in startups but started them. One of the startups he co-founded is Keyhole Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that …