The Latest Breaking News from Kansas City

Chiefs open as touchdown favorites over Bengals in AFC championship game

The #Chiefs are touchdown opening favorites over the #Bengals for the AFC championship game per Tipico Sportsbook.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jan 24, 2022

Thirteen Seconds: Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs Have Just Enough Time to Win Instant Classic

Sunday was the latest chapter in a quarterback rivalry that may define not seasons but eras. The last team with the ball won.

Sports Illustrated · Jan 24, 2022

Chiefs vs. Bills Finish Reignites NFL Overtime Rules Debate

Buffalo never got a shot to respond to Kansas City’s game-winning overtime drive, which left a bitter taste in the mouths of many viewers.

Sports Illustrated · Jan 24, 2022

Vahe Gregorian: Five years after death, Royals' Yordano Ventura is both revered and cautionary tale

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two eternal images of Yordano Ventura are enshrined side by side in a frame on Dayton Moore's desk. And, indeed, they do frame the trajectory of the shooting star gone too soon, after too much too soon, and the cautionary tale left in his vapor trail.

Tribune News Service · Jan 23, 2022

Vahe Gregorian: Here's why the best days could still be ahead for Chiefs coach Andy Reid

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Only a year after Englishman Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in May 1954, crashing through an invisible, tantalizing and once-immovable barrier, three men did the same in a single race. Some 1,500 would eventually follow.

Tribune News Service · Jan 22, 2022

Man's identity was used to arrest someone else. The police's mistake follows him

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The letter arrived two days before Christmas, as Martin and Jalynda Cervantes were getting ready for the holidays.

Tribune News Service · Jan 22, 2022

Giants pick Bills executive Joe Schoen as their new GM

Schoen, who also interviewed with the Bears, got the nod over San Francisco 49ers assistant general manager Adam Peters and Kansas City’s executive director of player personnel Ryan Poles.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 21, 2022

Kansas Senate advances congressional map reducing minority voter influence in 3rd District

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas Senate committee approved a congressional map Thursday that reduces the voting power of minority voters in Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the Kansas City metro area.

Tribune News Service · Jan 21, 2022

Joe Manniello's NFL divisional round playoff picks

Wild-card weekend didn’t produce much excitement, but the divisional round looks as if it will. Bengals-Titans is the lone game that isn’t a rematch from earlier in the season. With all four games having point spreads of under a touchdown, expect close, interesting matchups. From 14 to eight, who will…

Newsday · Jan 21, 2022

Vahe Gregorian: Until more is known on Willie Gay's arrest, let's no more condemn than shrug

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — So, here's the scant amount anybody removed from the immediate situation knows when it comes to the arrest of Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay (which as of Thursday afternoon remained an entirely fuzzy and incomplete picture):

Tribune News Service · Jan 21, 2022