KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals announced “friend and colleague Fred White passed away due to complications from melanoma,” a tweet said Wednesday.

White, who spent 40 seasons in the Royals’ organization as an announcer, Director of Broadcast Services and the Royals Alumni, passed away earlier Wednesday in hospice care.

It was just Tuesday that MLB.com reported White was retiring.

There are no details at this time regarding funeral arrangements, the Royals said.

He was 76.

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A 31-year-old man charged with statutory sodomy and other sex crimes appeared in Jackson County Court Wednesday morning.

One of the man’s victims is speaking out about the abuse she suffered.

Prosecutors say Morgan Littleton had sex with a 12-year-old girl and assaulted her mother as well as another woman.

According to court documents, Littleton was involved in an alternative lifestyle domestic relationship with some women, where the victims were in subservient roles to Littleton and he demanded that they call him “Master.”

One of the victims told FOX 4 News it was important for her to appear in court with Littleton to show him that she can face him down.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — An Independence, Mo., road project five years in the works is finally finished. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place Wednesday afternoon at 2 to celebrate the opening of the final section of the Little Blue Parkway in Independence.

Little Blue Parkway opens from 39th Street to 24 Highway this week. It’s a four-lane road seven miles long. The city of Independence says it will promote economic development in the Little Blue River Valley.

The project cost about $55 million and has been completed in several phases over the past five years.

Last fall the road between 39th Street and Bundschu Road opened to traffic. The section of Road between 24 Highway and Bundschu road opens Wednesday.

Public Works Director John Powell says the new street provides a major North and South Street for drivers. He says it’s also good for business.