Many assume Lee’s Summit was named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and a reader asked What’s Your KCQ?, a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library, to find out ...

Weamer-Lee went to high school with David Harrington, 37, Ricky Johnson, 38, and Clayton McGeeney, 36, whose bodies were discovered outside of Jordan Willis’ Kansas City rental home on Jan. 9 ...

Armand Membou, a Lee’s Summit native and graduate of Lee's Summit North, was selected by the New York Jets as the seventh pick of the first round. Sign up for our Newsletters Video above: Kansas ...

May Howard told The Kansas City Star in 1986 that the story about the misspelling was invented by a “Northern sympathizer.” In her mind, there was no doubt that the town was named for General Lee.