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The Downtown Shareholders have announced that the Cinco de Mayo parade and festival planned for Saturday has been canceled because of the weather forecast.
The forecast for Saturday calls for rain and possible thunderstorms.
The sponsor, Bonito Michoacan, will be looking at having another festival in June, according to the announcement.
A fatal accident was reported today in the 2700 block of Wood Avenue, according to Kansas City, Kan., police.
A spokesman said the Police Department received a call about shots fired in the 3300 block of Wood Avenue about 12:27 p.m. May 8. While they were enroute, dispatchers told the officers that there was an accident at 27th and Wood.
When the officers arrived at the accident, they found three persons with serious injuries and one person deceased outside of the vehicle, the spokesman said.
Three of the occupants in the vehicle were taken to area hospitals in critical condition, the spokesman said. The identity of the passenger will not be released, until there is positive identification and family notification, the spokesman said.
The incident is under investigation by the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department’s major case unit, which is encouraging anyone with information to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
Sporting Kansas City takes on first place D.C. United at 6 p.m. on Saturday at RFK Stadium in the nation’s capital.
The cross-conference match-up will air on KMCI-TV’s 38 the Spot locally and on SKCTV across the Midwest, with coverage beginning at 5:30 p.m. Fans can listen to the match on Sports Radio 810 WHB (English) and La Grande 1340 AM (Spanish).
Saturday marks Sporting KC’s return to the nation’s capital for the first and only time during the 2015 MLS regular season. In 2014, the two teams met on three occasions and Sporting Kansas City went winless in the series (0-2-1).
However, the visitors have only one loss in their last five trips to RFK Stadium, including three shutouts and just two goals allowed. Sporting KC is undefeated against Eastern Conference opponents in 2015 (3-0-1) and is one of two MLS teams (Seattle Sounders FC) with a winning road record since the beginning of 2011 (30-28-18).
D.C. United is unbeaten in 16 straight home games across all competitions dating back to July 2014 and is off to the best eight-game start in club history with 17 points.
Most recently, D.C. United defeated Crew SC 2-0 at RFK Stadium courtesy of goals from Fabian Espindola and Sean Franklin. United midfielder Chris Rolfe earned the game-winning assist and Rolfe’s three assists in 2015 rank the ninth-year pro sixth in MLS this season — trailing Sporting KC’s Benny Feilhaber, who leads the league with five assists.
Sporting KC is also fresh off a three-point performance, which they obtained from a 1-0 victory against the Chicago Fire last weekend. Paulo Nagamura tallied the game-winner and goalkeeper Tim Melia garnered the shutout in his Sporting KC debut.
Sporting KC and D.C. United are 20-20-11 in the all-time series and will look to break the stalemate on Saturday. Sporting KC will be without Marcel de Jong as he recovers from a muscle strain in his left hip. Nagamura is also listed as questionable on the team’s injury report with a lower back sprain.
– Story from Sporting KC