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  • AP Source: Memorial service planned for Belcher

    A person familiar with the arrangements says a memorial service for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher is planned for Wednesday afternoon.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: People, not guns, kill people

    I have immense respect for Bob Costas -- his mastery of his broadcast craft has made it an art form. Last Sunday night, however, he was wrong ("Costas sets off firestorm with anti-gun spiel about Belcher," Web, Monday).


  • Chiefs begin picking up pieces after heartache

    The Kansas City Chiefs returned to work Monday at their practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, trying to find a sense of normalcy after two days of unimaginable heartache.


  • Chiefs had given counseling to Belcher, girlfriend

    Kansas City Chiefs officials knew that linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend were having relationship problems, and the team provided the couple with counseling in an effort to help, a police official said.


  • Chiefs' LB mentioned other 'girlfriend' to police

    Police say Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher spent some of his final hours sleeping in his car outside the home of another woman whom he described as his "girlfriend."


  • Belcher told cops he was waiting for 'girlfriend'

    Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher told officers who found him sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex hours before he committed a murder-suicide that he was there to visit a woman he described as his "girlfriend," but that she wasn't home.


  • ** FILE ** In this Nov. 22, 2009, file photo, Sportscaster Bob Costas is seen before an NFL football game between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles in Chicago. Costas noted a controversy over honoring Israeli athletes killed at the Olympics 40 years ago during his coverage of the opening ceremony a the London Olympics, but stopped short of offering his own protest. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

    MILLER: Bob Costas shoots himself in the foot

    President Obama hasn't had his second inaugural, and his allies already are pushing him to expend his second-term capital enacting another so-called assault-weapons ban. This reinvigorated attack on the Second Amendment is shooting firearm sales through the roof.


  • Jovan Belcher turned a gun on himself in front of Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli on Saturday morning, shortly after murdering his girlfriend, who also was the mother of their 3-month-old daughter. Kansas City went on to claim an emotional victory over Carolina on Sunday. (Associated Press)

    Business wasn't usual for Chiefs on Monday in wake of tragedy

    The Kansas City Chiefs returned to work Monday at their practice facility near Arrowhead Stadium, trying to find a sense of normalcy after two days of unimaginable heartache.


  • Portrait emerges of Chiefs player's tragic end

    Jovan Belcher walked off the field after his final practice, laughing and joking with Chiefs defensive tackle Shaun Smith about who would get into the game the most on Sunday afternoon.


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