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Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs kicks off the NFL season against the Houston Texans tonight, in a game that many were not sure will happen due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This most unusual NFL season kicks off with the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs facing the Houston Texans before about 17,000 fans at Arrowhead Stadium on Thursday night.

Kansas City Chiefs fans who file into Arrowhead Stadium for a masked and socially distanced start to the NFL season won’t be wearing headdresses or face paint amid a nationwide push for racial justice following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

NBC’s Mike Tirico and Sunday Night Football’s Fred Gaudelli gives a look into what the first NFL game of the season will look like amid the pandemic. The Kansas City Chiefs will play the Houston Texans in the first game since the Super Bowl.

A former defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks again faces criminal charges, this time after being accused of stealing purses from a western Missouri property.

Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes is joining the ownership group of the Kansas City Royals.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is sending federal law enforcement agents to Chicago and Albuquerque to combat violent crime. The agents will come from several agencies, including the FBI, DEA and DHS, to help execute “Operation Legend.” Agents have already been sent to Kansas City.

Newly unsealed court documents say a Missouri man who was planning to bomb a Kansas City-area hospital was distressed by the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis.

In many ways, Kansas City has the advantage over Dallas, when it comes to economic and health factors that experts say can fuel crime. People are more likely to make more money in KC, they’re less likely to be in poverty, and there is a much better chance they have health insurance, according to the most recent statistics with...

A beloved school crossing guard in Kansas died after he was hit by a car while saving two young children, the school said in a Facebook post.

Five things to know about the Kansas City Chiefs going into Super Bowl LIV.

Police in Kansas City, Missouri, say at least two people are dead and 15 people were reportedly injured in a shooting outside a club.

Tammy Kilgore raised the giant claw of a John Deere excavator high in the air, then slammed it down on the roof the house where she had spent nearly her entire adult life. The shingles crunched, but not much else. So she did it again, and again — each time taking a bigger bite with the mouth-like claw, until the...

The second that dog shelter owner Rochelle Steffen first laid eyes on a tiny “unicorn” puppy that has a tail growing out of his face, she had two thoughts. “I looked at him, and I was like, ‘This is the most ridiculously adorable puppy I’ve ever seen,” Steffen told TODAY. “Then my million-dollar question was, ‘Did the tail wag?”’ Steffen,...

Disney will sprinkle its pixie dust on the streaming arena Tuesday, as its Disney Plus service debuts with an arsenal of marquee franchises including Marvel and Star Wars, original series with a built-in fan base and a cheap price to boot. The $7-a-month commercial-free service is poised to set the standard for other services like WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s...

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Leighton Vander Esch is active against Minnesota on Sunday night after the second-year player missed the first game of his career with a neck injury.

Hamstring injury to keep Vikings WR Adam Thielen out for Sunday night game against Cowboys.

The Cowboys will host the Vikings in a crucial matchup on NBC 5’s Sunday Night Football. Sports Director Newy Scruggs offers his official prediction of the NFC showdown at AT&T Stadium.