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Missouri man charged with Bonner Springs robbery

A Kansas City, Mo., man has been charged with robbing a bank in Bonner Springs, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.

Timothy Karpovich, 39, Kansas City, Mo., was charged with one count of bank robbery.

An investigator’s affidavit filed in the case alleged that on Monday morning Karpovich robbed the KCB Bank at 13010 Commercial in Bonner Springs.

He allegedly gave the teller a handwritten note and kept his right hand in his pocket as if he had a gun, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. He fled the bank on foot.

Police received a tip that the man gambled regularly at Harrah’s Casino in North Kansas City, Mo. Casino employees identified Karpovich from a bank surveillance photo. He was arrested without incident at the casino.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison. The FBI, the Bonner Springs Police Department and the Missouri Highway Patrol Gaming Division investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Trent Krug is prosecuting.

Kwanzaa celebration includes KCK residents

A Kwanzaa celebration took place tonight at the Gem Theater at 18th and Vine in Kansas City, Mo., and continues Sunday night in Kansas City, Mo. (Photo by William Crum)

by William Crum

Many Wyandotte County residents were volunteering at the Kwanzaa celebration tonight at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

More than 250 people attended the annual event. Kwanzaa means “first fruits of the harvest.”

Kwanzaa was first started in Los Angeles in 1966; in Kansas City it was started 36 years ago by the National Black United Front.

One of the key figures in starting it was the late Rev. Nelson “Fuzzy” Thompson, from Kansas City, Kansas. Thompson was the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in the 1970s. He also helped start the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Kansas City, Kansas.

Sunday night will be the finale of the Kwanzaa celebration in Kansas City, Mo., and will include the annual ball at the American Jazz Museum.

Soccer community commemorates World War I Christmas truce

Soccer enthusiasts from around the region paid homage to the World War I Christmas Truce on Monday by participating in the fifth annual Truce Tournament hosted by Sporting Club, the National World War I Museum and Memorial and The Soccer Lot.

Approximately 200 participants from 33 teams in the area competed in a 3v3 soccer tournament, while hundreds of additional soccer fans attended the English Premier League Boxing Day Watch Party on large screens inside the National World War I Museum and Memorial.

The Millennium Pilots claimed the Truce Tournament title in the Competitive Division. In the Recreational Division, Stepdads claimed the title. #CatsBy90 won the Beer Division.

The Truce Tournament is a tribute to the Christmas Truce of 1914 in which the battles of World War I on the Western and Eastern Fronts temporarily subsided. Members of both sides laid down their arms in a time of war to celebrate a day of peace by venturing out to “No Man’s Land” to exchange gifts, sing carols and play soccer.

“The Christmas Truce was a remarkable event during the world’s first truly global conflict,” said National World War I Museum and Memorial president and CEO Dr. Matthew Naylor. “There are substantial lessons to be learned from those soldiers who displayed an unbelievable amount of humanity in the midst of horrific warfare and the Truce Tournament allows us to recognize and understand how the Great War continues to effect the global community to this day.”

In addition to Sporting Club, the National World War I Museum and Memorial and The Soccer Lot, event sponsors included Ivy Investments, the Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund of Kansas City, Missouri, State Street, Central States Beverages, The Roasterie and Sports Radio 810 AM.