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Origin Hotel opens on Kansas City's Berkley Riverfront
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Origin Hotel on the Berkley Riverfront has opened its doors.
The 118-room boutique hotel is located just west of CPKC Stadium, home of the Kansas City Current.
“We are excited to be bringing a completely new experience to the Kansas City market,” Jacob Van Winkle, president of Tandem Hospitality, said in a news release.
Origin Hotel
Part of the “authentic immersion” promised to guests includes Show Pony, the hotel’s on-site restaurant.
Set to open later this month, Show Pony is said to provide an “Americana-inspired dining experience.”
Origin guests can tailor their stay to their interests with “curated in-room enhancements.”
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Fur parents may be interested in the package that includes a pass to Bar K while families may opt-in to the adventure kit for kids, which comes with sleeping bags and a starry night light.
There’s also an in-room yoga kit available for anyone looking to workout solo rather than at the “state-of-the-art fitness studio.”
Origin Hotel
Guests looking to take advantage of being “at the heart of the action, with easy access to the city’s most celebrated landmarks,” can roam KC using the hotel’s complimentary bike rentals. Access to the streetcar is also nearby in the River Market.
Throughout the property, local artists and KC-inspired designs will be featured in areas such as the hotel’s “grand fountain” at the entrance and the Charlie Hustle retail store.
Origin Hotel
Additionally, the hotel boasts it offers 4,800 square feet of meeting and event space across five “unique and versatile venues” — Berkley Ballroom; Two Birds, One Stone (beer garden); Moonstone (indoor/outdoor space); Emanuel Cleaver II Riverview Room; Port KC Private Dining Room.
The Origin, a Wyndham Hotel, is owned by The Thrash Group and operated by Tandem Hospitality Group.
The hotel is located at 1001 E. Riverfront Drive, KCMO, 64120.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Bates County Circuit Court judge Friday sentenced a Linn County, Kansas, man in connection with the December 2025 death of Airen Andula, 13.
Damon Leonard, 47, was sentenced to four years in prison for abandonment of a corpse, according to court records.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of abandoning a corpse on May 22.
Andula disappeared from his Pleasanton, Kansas, home on Dec. 21, 2025. A day later, law enforcement found the boy’s body in a ravine in Bates County, Missouri. He had died from multiple dog bite injuries.
Police were led to the boy’s body after a phone call from Leonard.
Court documents said Leonard “admitted that he transported the deceased child from Kansas to Missouri and left the body in the bottom of the creek” before he returned home.
KSHB 41 reporter Fernanda Silva spoke with Andula’s family earlier this week — after the guilty plea and ahead of Friday’s sentencing.
His family shared that the guilty plea brought a small sense of justice, but it didn’t do much to ease the pain of their loss.
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“We’re missing our kid every day of our lives,” the boy’s father Charles Andula told Silva.
Leonard received credit for time served of 158 days in his sentence, per court records.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – It may not seem like a lot of relief, but gas and diesel prices have declined over the past week.
Friday morning’s national average for a gallon of unleaded gas was $4.39, according to the Automobile Association of America.
That’s down three cents from $4.42 on Thursday; down 16 cents from a week ago; but was up 17 cents from $4.22 a month ago and up $.23 from $3.16 a year ago.
In Kansas, AAA says, unleaded gas on Friday was averaging $3.96 a gallon — down four cents from $4.00 on Thursday; down 13 cents from $3.96 a week ago; but up 26 cents from $3.70 a month ago; and up $1.07 over $2.89 a year ago.
Diesel fuel also was dropping in price. AAA says Friday’s national average for a gallon of diesel was $5.52 a gallon — down three cents from $5.55 on Thursday; down 12 cents from $5.64 a week a go; but up six cents from $5.46 a month ago and up $1.98 from $3.54 a year ago.
Kansas diesel fuel prices, according to AAA, checked in at an average of $4.98 on Friday. That’s five cents below $5.03 on Thursday; down 16 cents from $5.14 a week ago; but up 24 cents over $4.74 a month ago; and up $1.72 from $3.26 a year ago.
In Topeka, GasBuddy.com on Friday morning showed unleaded gas prices ranging between $3.77 and $4.09 in Topeka, with diesel fuel going for between $4.94 and $5.29 a gallon.
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