Swapping Section 8 housing help for sexual favors is pretty gross. It's even grosser when it's a man of God doing it.
The Rev. Meredith F. Sullivan admitted in February that he'd bumped people up the waiting list for Section 8 housing and lied to HUD about tenant income and household compositions in exchange for sex (or the promise of sex) from residents at the Sycamore Grove Apartments (2920 East 17th Street), which he managed, from June 1, 2004, to July 1, 2009.
Car aficionados made their way to 46th and Oak for the Kansas City Art Institute's Art of the Car Concours on Sunday. Vintage automobiles, motorcycles, race cars and trucks from eight states were lined up at KCAI's campus grounds.
According to KC Studio, the Art of the Car Concours is the largest vintage car show in the city. Big shot cars like President Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Pierce-Arrow Limousine and Bobby Darin's DiDia 150 were on display.
Pitch photographer Emily Henson was at the event, snapping pictures of the classic vehicles on display. You can see more in this slideshow.
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Stewart, a "person of interest" in an Olathe homicide, has been located.
Update III (1:44 p.m. June 30): Olathe police located Maurice O. Stewart this afternoon. They are calling Stewart a "person of interest" in the homicide of 57-year-old Stephen L. Cook, whose body was found at an Olathe Econo Lodge on Tuesday. Maurice
The police say there is no more information to release at this time.
A little bit of Manhattan comes to Shawnee tonight. Tallgrass Brewing Co. co-founder Jeff Gill is leading a beer tasting at Barley's Brewhaus (16649 Midland Drive). The tasting kicks off at 7 p.m. and includes all of the beers from the craft brewer paired with a menu designed by the brewpub.
A polling outfit whose work The Pitch questioned in 2008 is being labeled a fraud by a client.
On Tuesday, the liberal politics blog Daily Kos disowned the polls it had asked Research 2000 to conduct. The blog's founder, Markos Moulitsas, has concluded that Research 2000's survey results are "bunk" after reading a report by three statisticians who examined the Maryland company's work.
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But what makes these foods gay?
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe and ESPN The Magazine are deadlocked and neither is budging. ESPN stands by its interview with Bowe in which he
claimed his teammates used social networking to import NFL groupies
while on the road.
Bowe claims he was misquoted (but he's also claimed the interview never happened). How he could be misquoted in an interview that didn't take place, well, you'll have to ask him.
ESPN The Magazine's editor told me that he has a tape of the interview, and he'd be happy to play it for Bowe. But why is he sitting on the audio. There's a really good reason: Bowe named names.
Voltaire - the saloon, not the philosopher - opens tonight
Courtney Cole, Greater Kansas City Women's Political Caucus executive director, answers The Pitch's questionnaire
Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper are headed to Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Big Rip Brewing Co. expands the Northland's beer universe
WWE's Monday Night Raw returns to Kansas City October 14
Shawn Ratigan and Bishop Robert Finn face two new civil lawsuits
The Gaf has closed in Waldo
A consultant tells KC that big retail could save Citadel Plaza