Peggy Lowe
Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.
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The 16-year-old, known only as “A.M.” in court documents, claims self defense in the shootings that killed one woman and injured 24 other people. A Jackson County Family Court judge ruled that he will not be tried as an adult. -
A Kansas family remembers Valentine's Day as the start of panic attacks, life-altering trauma and waking to nightmares of gunfire. They wonder how they'll recover from the Kansas City parade shooting. -
Lyndell Mays, 23, is being held on $1 million bond. He was shot nine times during the February 14 shooting near Union Station, including once in the face, and is in constant pain, his attorney said. -
Lester, an 84-year-old white man who lives in Kansas City’s Northland, was charged with two felonies for shooting Ralph Yarl on the night of April 13, after the Black teen mistakenly arrived at the wrong address. -
Prosecutors in Clay County, Mo., say an 84-year-old Kansas City man is charged with two felonies for shooting Black teenager Ralph Yarl, who knocked on his door after going to the wrong address.
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Rose Calvin’s family has wondered about her murder for 24 years – and they have questions about the role of a former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective in her death. So do social justice advocates. -
This year could see a surge in provisional ballots, a special fail-safe ballot designed to ensure that every vote counts, because some voters are worried their mail-in ballot could get lost. -
Brighton Gardens, a Prairie Village nursing home, was sued on Monday, the first lawsuit alleging wrongful death for a resident’s COVID-19. -
Kansas Democrats’ first use of all-mail ballots, a decision made to encourage voter safety during the coronavirus pandemic, is three times higher than the 2016 presidential primary. -
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with WPLN's Blake Farmer from Nashville and KCUR's Peggy Lowe from Kansas City about how nursing homes are dealing with deadly outbreaks of COVID-19.
