Kansas City mayor reveals marriage, birth of child

The mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, has revealed his marriage earlier this month to his longtime girlfriend and Kansas City, Kansas, government official and announced the birth of their child over the weekend.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says he and Katherine Carttar married on April 11.

Carttar is the economic development director for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.

Lucas said in a Facebook post on Monday that Carttar gave birth to their son, Bennett, over the weekend at a Kansas City, Kansas, hospital, where the baby has been in the neonatal intensive care unit.