At one point, the settlement seemed poised “to become the city of destiny,” one historian wrote. But it didn’t last.

Court records said that Deion D. Crum was convicted of one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon and one count of Armed Criminal Action. Due to his prior convictions, Crum could face a minimum of 20 ...

Drivers yelled: ‘Pow-e-e-e-e-e, ho, ho!’” All of which depicts a place that is a far cry from Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district of today — except perhaps for the occasional gunplay that ...