UMKC Law Professor Allen Rostorn predicts that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn affirmative action.  "I do think there's a good chance that the Supreme Court will rule that way," said Professor Rostorn. "It just shows how it is difficult to predict the consequences...

Johnson County residents and leaders have been buzzing about the name of a local creek with a gruesome backstory.   “Negro Creek” is the name of a creek, a tributary of the Blue River, that begins in Overland Park and flows east for four miles into Leawood....

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools on Aug. 24 seeking to end the school district’s mask mandate, calling the mandate “arbitrary and capricious.”  The lawsuit, which Schmitt filed in Boone County’s 13th Circuit...

What used to be an elaborate encampment for the Kansas City homeless in a Westport intersection is now a desolate, orange-fenced patch of land.   Major Lucas announced his agreement with the KC Homeless Union on April 8 to remove the homeless camps that were erected...

The communication studies department at UMKC has lost an outstanding faculty member, professor Jason Martin.   Martin joined UMKC in 2011 as an assistant professor, later becoming an associate professor with tenure in the Communication Studies department. Both students...