
Frank Morris
Frank Morris has supervised the reporters in KCUR's newsroom since 1999. In addition to his managerial duties, Morris files regularly with National Public Radio. He’s covered everything from tornadoes to tax law for the network, in stories spanning eight states. His work has won dozens of awards, including four national Public Radio News Directors awards (PRNDIs) and several regional Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2012 he was honored to be named "Journalist of the Year" by the Heart of America Press Club.
Morris grew up in rural Kansas listening to KHCC, spun records at KJHK throughout college at the University of Kansas, and cut his teeth in journalism as an intern for Kansas Public Radio, in the Kansas statehouse.
-
Several people were killed in Greenfield, Iowa, a town about 55 miles southwest of Des Moines. Severe storms and tornadoes devastated areas in the Midwest on Tuesday.
-
Wild temperature swings are driving cases of trench foot and frostbite among homeless people — especially in the Midwest. As COVID surges, some people spurn shelters through extremes of cold and wet.
-
When Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas was built, a worker said he buried a Chiefs Kingdom flag in the field. Kansas City has never lost a game there, sparking a controversial conspiracy theory.
-
Much of America's nuclear arsenal is decades out of date. A huge and urgent push to rebuild it has started, but there aren't enough workers with the skills and mechanical aptitude to do this work.
-
Freight railroads could stop rolling at midnight Friday if negotiators don't stop a looming strike over working conditions. Congress could end a strike quickly, but a brief shutdown hurts the economy.
-
White residents took the boulder to Lawrenceville, Kansas, nearly 100 years ago. The Kaw say it is a reminder of everything that has been taken from them and what some see as invasion and genocide.
-
A Kansas community college president is under fire for comparing a Black student athlete to Hitler. Lawsuits accuse the president of a concerted effort to shrink the Black student body at the school.
-
Fewer volunteers are answering triple the number of calls they did decades ago and those who do show up tend to be older. Some departments were already stretched thin and then along came the pandemic.
-
Huge winds of over 110 miles per hour blew through much of the Midwest Wednesday night. They knocked out power, started fires and stretched resources of volunteer fire departments and responders.
-
Senator Bob Dole's remains lie in repose in his hometown of Russell, Kansas, where residents once raised funds for his recovery from war wounds, and later, helped launch his long political career.