A woman is being treated at a hospital after being hit by a stray bullet at Hawthorne Place Apartments Sunday evening. from Local News | KSHB http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/police-woman-hit-by-stray-bullet-likely-from-target-shooting-in-nearby-field from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/police-woman-shot-by-stray-bullet/
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CHICAGO — Whit Merrifield had a chance to hit for the cycle. He settled for a really fun day. Merrifield hit a three-run homer and drove in a career-high five runs, and the Kansas City Royals pounded the Chicago White Sox 14-6 on Sunday. Drew Butera had four of Kansas City’s 16 hits, helping the Royals climb back over .500 at 59-58. Jorge Bonifacio hit his 15th homer, and Lorenzo Cain had two hits and two RBIs. Merrifield needed a double for the cycle when he came to the plate with the bases loaded in the eighth inning. But he popped out on a shallow foul ball to right fielder Avisail Garcia. “With the game like it was, it (the cycle) was on my mind,” Merrifield said. “Hit a ball in the gap. I made a pretty poor swing, on a slider.” Merrifield still finished with three hits. The 28-year-old second baseman is batting .296 with 14 homers and 56 RBIs. “He’s worked himself into a very nice major league player,” manager Ned Yost said. “He has a little power and plays solid defense.” Jason Vargas (14-6) worked six innings to match his career high for wins set in 2012 with Seattle. The left-hander allowed three runs and six hits, struck out seven and walked two. The Royals won the last two games of the weekend set after dropping five in a row and 10 of 12. They remain in the mix for the second AL wild card. “We were kind of spinning our wheels for while trying to gain some momentum,” Yost said. “It’s hard to get, but easy to stop.” Tim Anderson hit a two-run homer for AL-worst Chicago, and Garcia added a two-run double. White Sox left-hander Derek Holland (6-12) lasted just two-plus innings in his shortest start of the year. He was charged with seven runs and seven hits. “I don’t even know where to begin,” Holland said. “Today was just, in my eyes, embarrassing.” Kansas City grabbed control with four runs in the second and four more in the third. Bonifacio led off the third with a drive to left and Merrifield made it 8-0 when he went deep against Mike Pelfrey. “It does seem to come in bunches at times,” White Sox manager Rick Renteria said. Merrifield added a two-run triple in the sixth, making it 12-3. BY THE DOZEN White Sox rookie Nicky Delmonico reached in his 12th straight game to begin his career, extending his team record. He also has a 10-game hitting streak. He was hit by a pitch in the second and walked in the fourth. He also doubled home a run in the seventh and was robbed of a potential home run by a leaping grab by Alex Gordon in center for the final out of the game. TRAINER’S ROOM Royals: INF Mike Moustakas (left knee soreness) was the designated hitter for the second time in the three-game series at Chicago, but Yost said he hoped to have the slugger back at third base Monday in Oakland. White Sox: INF/DH Matt Davidson said he is recovering from a bruised right wrist more slowly than expected and is still not able to swing a bat. Davidson had hoped to return this week against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. “We’re going to re-evaluate in the next couple of days and go from there,” he said. Davidson has been on the DL since being hit by a pitch by Toronto’s Marcus Stroman on Aug. 1. UP NEXT Royals: RHP Jake Junis (4-2, 4.70 ERA) will be recalled from Triple-A Omaha for his eighth start Monday against Oakland. Jharel Cotton (5-9, 5.72 ERA) pitches for the Athletics in the opener of a three-game series. White Sox: RHP Miguel Gonzalez (6-10, 4.85 ERA) faces Dodgers LHP Alex Wood (14-1, 2.37 ERA) on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Wood has won three straight since his only loss this season. from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/merrifield-powers-royals-past-white-sox-14-6/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/merrifield-powers-royals-past-white-sox-14-6/ Members of both political parties tonight are criticizing the president’s response to Saturday’s violence for not specifically calling out white supremacists. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. On many sides,” Trump said in a news conference. Following the president’s statements on Saturday many local politicians took to twitter to express their thoughts as well. Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill called the display in Virginia “ugly and morally repugnant.” “The hate on display in VA is ugly, and morally repugnant. And it is the essence of anti-American. Shame on them,” McCaskill tweeted. State representative Emanuel Cleaver posted a series of tweets both condemning the violence and expressing disappointment in the president’s response. “Over the past 7 months, in spite of everything to the contrary, I believed that Mr. Trump would adorn the coat of president honorably. When he failed to condemn the white supremacists parading as patriots in Charlottesville, I accepted the reality that what I have been waiting on is something that just won’t happen. I’m not going to hate President Trump. I won’t place him in the category of the unforgiven. In fact, on this very night, I will pray for him as the Bible requires. However, I must now admit that I just don’t like Donald Trump!” Cleaver said in a series of tweets. Kansas state representative Kevin Yoder tweeted words of prayer for those affected by the violence in Charlottesville. Yoder also did something many criticized President Trump for failure to do: directly naming the hate groups at the center of these tragic events. “We as elected officials must stand up and speak out and be very clear and direct that this racism is wrong, that we won’t let these bigots and this hatred win and that white supremacy, racism will not be tolerated in this country and that we will stand together unified against those who seek to divide,” Yoder said. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Mo. Governor Eric Greitens have yet to weigh in. The White House scrambled Sunday to elaborate on President Donald Trump’s response to deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, as he came under bipartisan scolding for not clearly condemning white supremacists and other hate groups immediately after the altercations. As the chorus of criticism grew, White Houses aides were dispatched to the morning news shows, yet they struggled at times to explain the president’s position. A new White House statement on Sunday explicitly denounced the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, but it was attributed to an unnamed spokesperson and not the president himself. Trump remained out of sight and silent, save for a few retweets. One was about two Virginia state policemen killed in a helicopter crash while monitoring the Charlottesville protests, another about a Justice Department probe into the violence. from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/local-lawmakers-speak-out-against-rally-in-charlottesville-criticize-presidents-response/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/local-lawmakers-speak-out-against-rally-in-charlottesville-criticize-presidents-response/ KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police are searching for an elderly man reported missing. Charles W. Johnson, 78, walked away from his home in the area of 27th and Benton Saturday at 4 p.m. He was last seen wearing a black, white and brown plaid shirt and brown khaki pants. He was also wearing a ball cap that said KC. He is 6 foot 1, and weighs 218 pounds with brown eyes and grey hair. He left his cell phone and wallet at home. His family is very concerned due to him having dementia and a pacemaker. Please call the KCPD Missing persons unit at 816-234-5136 or 911 if you locate him or have info on his whereabouts. from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/police-searching-for-78-year-old-man-with-health-issues/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/police-searching-for-missing-78-year-old-man-with-health-issues/ Sisters Circle awarded $18,000 to Awesome Ambitions Thursday night at a reception at One Light apartments in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. from Local News | KSHB http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/sisters-circle-awards-18k-to-awesome-ambitions-program-helping-teen-girls-achieve-success-in-life from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/sisters-circle-gives-18k-to-awesome-ambitions/ Police are asking for help locating a man with dementia and a pacemaker who hasn’t been seen since Saturday. from Local News | KSHB http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kcpd-seeking-missing-man-with-dementia from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/kcpd-seeking-missing-man-with-dementia/ ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The Chiefs returned to the practice field at training camp in St. Joseph on Sunday, with numerous key players returning to practice after an assortment of injuries. DE Chris Jones was taken off the PUP (physically unable to perform) list. TE Travis Kelce returned to workouts, as did DT Bennie Logan. None of those players, along with S Eric Berry, played in the preseason opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers, though Berry did not practice on Sunday. Head Coach Andy Reid also promoted rookie QB Patrick Mahomes to second team, ahead of teammate Tyler Bray. “Made a change at the quarterback position. We are going to give Patrick (Mahomes) a chance to work with the twos like Tyler (Bray) has had here the last couple of weeks,” Reid told reporters after practice. “It is not because of Tyler’s performance in the game. I think he actually played very well and Patrick did a nice job too. It gives him an opportunity to step up and work with that second group and see what he can do there. While I am on quarterbacks, Alex (Smith) like I mentioned yesterday, did a nice job. All positive at that position.” from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/several-chiefs-players-returning-to-practice-after-sidelined-with-injuries/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/several-chiefs-players-returning-to-practice-after-sidelined-with-injuries/ CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A friend of the woman killed when a car rammed into a group of protesters in Charlottesville says she’s no different than a casualty of war. Felicia Correa said Sunday that her friend Heather Heyer died standing up for people of color. Correa says Heyer and other counterprotesters put their lives on the line to confront hateful bigotry. She says she doesn’t see the difference between Heyer or someone who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. She says the vehicle that plowed into a group of peaceful protesters was a terrorist attack as well. Correa says she grew up with Heyer, who was 32. She says she was a sweet person. She has set up a fund to raise money for Heyer’s family. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is calling on President Donald Trump to more strongly condemn the bigotry and violence that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. Democrat McAuliffe told reporters at First Baptist Church in Charlottesville on Sunday that angry political rhetoric needs to stop. He says the Republican president “needs to come out stronger” against the actions of white supremacists. The governor says “they are Nazis and they are here to hurt American citizens, and he needs to call them out for what they are, no question.” McAuliffe spoke to Trump on Saturday about the violence in downtown Charlottesville. He says “twice I said to him we have to stop this hateful speech, this rhetoric.” The governor says protesters were “emboldened to walk around our streets with weapons and to spew hatred.”
from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/friend-likens-woman-killed-at-va-white-supremacist-rally-to-casualty-of-war/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/friend-of-woman-killed-at-charlottesville-protest-likens-her-to-casualty-of-war/ CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The man accused of plowing a car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Virginia had been photographed hours earlier carrying the emblem of one of the hate groups that organized the “Take America Back” campaign. Vanguard America denied on Sunday any association with the suspect, even as a separate hate group that organized Saturday’s rally pledged on social media to organize future events that would be “bigger than Charlottesville.” The mayor of Charlottesville and political leaders of all political stripes vowed to combat the hate groups and urged President Donald Trump to forcefully denounce the organizations that had promoted the protest against the removal of a Confederate statue. Some of those groups specifically cited Trump’s election after a campaign of racially charged rhetoric as validation of their beliefs. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced late Saturday that federal authorities would pursue a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash. The violence and deaths in Charlottesville “strike at the heart of American law and justice,” Sessions wrote. “When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated.” Police charged James Alex Fields Jr. with second-degree murder and other counts after the silver Dodge Challenger they say he was driving barreled through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman and wounding at least 19 others. Hours later, two State troopers were killed when the helicopter they were flying in as part of a large-scale police effort at the rally crashed into a wooded area outside the city. In a photo taken by the New York Daily News, the 20-year-old Fields was shown standing with a half-dozen other men, all wearing the Vanguard America uniform of khakis and white polo shirts. The men held white shields with Vanguard America’s black-and-white logo of two crossed axes. The Confederate statue of Robert E. Lee was in the background. The Daily News said the photo was taken about 10:30 a.m. Saturday just hours before authorities say Fields crashed his car into the crowd at 1:42 p.m. The Anti-Defamation League says Vanguard America believes the U.S. is an exclusively white nation, and uses propaganda to recruit young white men online and on college campuses. In a Twitter post, the group said it had handed out the shields “to anyone in attendance who wanted them,” and denied Fields was a member. “All our members are safe an (sic) accounted for, with no arrests or charges.” In blog posts after the violence, the Daily Stormer, a leading white nationalist website that promoted the Charlottesville event, pledged to hold more events “soon.” “We are going to start doing this nonstop,” the post said. “We are going to go bigger than Charlottesville. We are going to go huge.” Saturday’s chaos erupted as neo-Nazis, skinheads, Ku Klux Klan members and other white supremacist groups staged a rally to protest the city of Charlottesville’s plans to remove the Lee statue. Peaceful counter-protesters arrived and marched downtown, carrying signs that read “black lives matter” and “love.” The two sides quickly clashed, with hundreds of people throwing punches, hurling water bottles and unleashing chemical sprays. Some came prepared for a fight, with body armor and helmets. Videos that ricocheted around the world on social media showed people beating each other with sticks and shields. Amid the violence, the Dodge Challenger tore through the crowd. The impact hurled people into the air and blew off their shoes. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed as she crossed the street. “It was a wave of people flying at me,” said Sam Becker, 24, speaking in the emergency room where he was being treated for leg and hand injuries. Those left standing scattered, screaming and running for safety. Video caught the car reversing, hitting more people, its windshield splintered from the collision and its bumper dragging on the pavement. Medics carried the injured, bloodied and crying, away as a police tank rolled down the street. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency, police in riot gear ordered people out of the streets, and helicopters circled overhead, including the one that later crashed. Both troopers onboard, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, and Berke M.M. Bates, one day shy of his 41st birthday, were killed. Officials have not provided a crowd estimate but it appeared to number well over 1,000. McAuliffe and Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer, both Democrats, lumped the blame squarely on the rancor that has seeped into American politics and the white supremacists who came from out of town into their city, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, home to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. Fields’ mother, Samantha Bloom, told The Associated Press late Saturday that she knew her son, who had recently moved to Ohio from his hometown in Kentucky, was attending a rally in Virginia but didn’t know it was a white supremacist rally. “I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump’s not a white supremacist,” Bloom said. Trump criticized the violence in a tweet Saturday, followed by a press conference and a call for “a swift restoration of law and order.” “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” he said. The “on many sides” ending of his statement drew the ire of his critics, who said he failed to specifically denounce white supremacy and equated those who came to protest racism with the white supremacists. The Rev. Jesse Jackson noted that Trump for years questioned President Barack Obama’s citizenship and his legitimacy as the first black president, and has fanned the flames of white resentment. “We are in a very dangerous place right now,” Jackson said. Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, McAuliffe said he spoke to Trump on the phone, and insisted that the president must work to combat hate. On Sunday, he reiterated that the angry political rhetoric needs to stop. Trump “needs to come out stronger” against the actions of white supremacists,” McAuliffe told reporters at the First Baptist Church in Charlottesville. “They are Nazis and they are here to hurt American citizens, and he needs to call them out for what they are, no question,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched an online petition Sunday calling on Trump to denounce Saturday’s white supremacist rally. The violence prompted responses from around the country, including in West Virginia and Florida, where activists and others pledged to work to remove Confederate statues in their cities, staged protests against white supremacy, and planned candlelight vigils in support of Charlottesville and in honor of the victims. from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports http://fox4kc.com/2017/08/13/man-accused-of-ramming-protesters-pictured-with-racist-group/ from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/man-accused-of-ramming-protesters-pictured-with-racist-group/ Two people were shot after an altercation at a large party on East Highridge Drive early Sunday morning. from Local News | KSHB http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/two-shot-after-altercation-at-large-party from https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/two-shot-at-large-party-in-independence/ |
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