East Side

A city team focused on improving U.S. Highway 71 has proposed moving the roadway below ground level, creating narrower lanes and building overpasses to connect neighborhoods east to west. The highway's construction tore through majority-Black neighborhoods in east Kansas City decades ago.

Idella "Lupi" Gardner, 38, is believed to have fired the shot that killed Aviva Okeson-Haberman, a KCUR reporter, nearly five years ago, a federal judge said Monday. Aviva Okeson-Haberman's murder was "emblematic of the senseless, everyday gun violence that plagues this community," a federal prosecutor said.