The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Michigan woman has come forward with allegations that International House of Prayer founder Mike Bickle sexually abused her starting when she was 14 and before he formed the Kansas City ministry. Her allegations, which some say are the most damning to surface yet about Bickle and come after four decades of silence, are the first claims that involve sexual abuse of a minor. She alleges the abuse began when she was a babysitter for Bickle’s two young children. Tammy Woods, who told her story exclusively to The Star this week, said the abuse occurred in the early 1980s in St.......

The election software company at the center ofJohnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden’s long-running elections investigation hit back on Monday, warning the Kansas sheriff that a baseless investigation results in “serious consequences.” “I fully recognize that Sheriff Hayden has placed himself and his department in the awkward position of conducting a baseless investigation for the past several years into nonexistent election fraud in Johnson County,” attorney Rick Guinn, representing the company Konnech Inc. and its CEO Eugene Yu, wrote in a Jan. 29 letter to Hayden obtained by The Star. “Sherif......

When Johnson County last June considered property tax incentives for a proposed $95 million manufacturing facility, officials encountered unexpectedly intense opposition. “Why is Johnson County funding China? This is incredibly concerning,” said Debbie Detmer, a far-right regular at county meetings. She was among a handful of residents who voiced objections to the project last summer over fears the company has ties to the Chinese government. County commissioners approved the incentives anyway and the company, Cnano Technology, moved forward with developing a 333,000-square-foot facility in the......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Six people were wounded inside Kansas City’s Crown Center in a shooting that drew a major police response and shut down the shopping mall on Wednesday evening. Kansas City police and emergency medical personnel were dispatched around 5:45 p.m. to multiple 911 calls reporting the sound of gunfire and people shot inside the mall in the 2400 block of Grand Boulevard, said Sgt. Jake Becchina, a KCPD spokesman. Two of the victims were discovered in the food court area on the lower level, where the shooting took place, Becchina said. Police later learned four more had arrived at a......

WASHINGTON — Rep. Eric Burlison wants to know the truth about aliens. In his first term in Congress, the Missouri Republican is pushing the federal government to reveal more about unidentified aerial phenomenon, the new term for what used to be called UFOs. But in an interview with The Star after he received a classified briefing about UAPs on Friday, Burlison said he’s no closer to answering the big questions he had before entering Congress. “There’s nothing that’s been said that’s changed my worldview,” Burlison said. “I believe the veracity of the claims of the people who testified in the p......