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Lee’s Summit police arrested a 22-year-old jail inmate Sunday evening who escaped earlier in the day while being treated at St. Luke’s Medical Center East.
A 44-year-old Independence man was killed earlier today in a two-vehicle accident that occurred at Valley View Road, just north of Heartland Drive in Independence. The name of the driver was not released.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | Kansas State defeated Dayton 83-75 on Sunday to take third place at the Rico Tip-Off.
A gunman robbed an Olathe convenience store Saturday evening and fled with undisclosed amount of cash. No shots were fired and no persons have been arrested. The robbery was reported just before 8 p.m. at the Wood Oil convenience store, located in the 800 block of Clairborne Road.
Murder charges were filed Sunday against two men for the shooting death of a convenience store clerk on East 12th Street this weekend.
Two of the founders of a blast-fax company that scammed businesses in Kansas have been sentenced to federal prison.
COLUMBIA | Missouri lists only three seniors on its basketball roster, and only two -- because of J.T. Tiller’s sore foot -- suited up on Sunday.
During a sobriety checkpoint this past weekend, Kansas City police arrested four motorists for driving under the influence.
Three days after he was presented with the Left Field trophy at the MTVu Woodie Awards in New York City, Tech N9ne showcased his left-of-center world view at the Independence Events Center.
Claycomo police have arrested two people in a burglary Saturday night that ended after a high-speed police pursuit through the Northland and a roll-over crash.
FAYETTE, Mo. | A mid-Missouri man has received a four-year sentence for tampering with evidence in a 2008 murder case.
The pregnant woman killed Friday while she sat with her boyfriend in a parked car on Armour Boulevard was identified today as Ashley D. Thomas. Thomas, 25, of Kansas City was shot in the head, while sitting in her car parked in front of an apartment building at 1301 E. Armour Blvd. Her 19-year-old boyfriend remained in critical condition this evening, police said.
Two suspects have been taken into custody this afternoon after Kansas City police surrounded a northeast area apartment building in connection with a nearby robbery and fatal shooting. Police tactical officers converged on the building in the 3200 block of East 11th Street late this morning after witnesses told officers that suspects from the robbery and shooting may have gone into the building.
An Overland Park man is being treated for critical burns after a fire broke out this morning in his home.
Kansas City police are awaiting autopsy results to determine what caused the death of a man found this morning in a parking lot near Westport. Officers were called about 9:30 a.m. to the apartment building parking lot in the 4400 block of Jarboe Street. The man was found dead near a retaining wall and police said there were no obvious signs of foul play.
Two people were killed overnight in separate traffic crashes in Independence, and police say alcohol was probably a factor in both.
The Missouri Highway Patrol says a 20-year-old Independence man was killed in a Friday afternoon traffic crash in central Missouri.
TOPEKA | It's beginning to look a lot more like the holidays at the governor's mansion.
A Wichita man has been sentenced to six months imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release for embezzling more than $335,000 from the pharmacy he managed.
Four persons were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol at Kansas City police checkpoints overnight.
TOPEKA | Police are looking for a "person of interest" in a shooting last weekend in northeast Topeka that left one woman dead.
A pregnant woman died this evening after she was shot in midtown Kansas City, and rushed attempts to save her 9-month-old fetus failed.
A man was stabbed behind an abandoned school in Kansas City late Friday, police said.
A Lawrence man was charged this week in a hit-and-run accident on Oct. 16 that killed a 20-year-old bicyclist , Rachel Leek, who grew up in Olathe.
A Basehor man who pleaded guilty to sex charges involving children was sentenced today to 120 months in prison.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | Ole Miss beat Kansas State 86-74 Friday night in the semifinals of the Puerto Rico Tip-off tournament.
A federal judge today sentenced three people who concocted a bizarre scheme to stage a sexual assault in Waldo to boost the payoff of a civil lawsuit.
WICHITA | Prosecutors are opposing a change of venue for the trial of the man who has publicly admitted killing George Tiller to save "unborn children."
Authorities returned to an Independence home today to search a backyard shed for more evidence in the Mohler child sex abuse case.
JEFFERSON CITY | A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor should be sent to a psychiatric hospital because she shows signs of severe depression and anxiety, her attorney said.
KENNETT, Mo. | A black school teacher who claimed white police officers abused and assaulted her agreed Friday to a plea deal convicting her of resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.
Former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft said Friday that prosecuting terrorists in federal court in New York rather than a military tribunal jeopardizes the safety of Americans. At a news conference in Overland Park, Ashcroft, a former two-term Missouri governor and senator, said information coming out of a future trial could provide important intelligence to terrorists.
A major storm may affect the beginning of next week's holiday travel. This weekend looks cloudy but nice. And the sun should come out a bit Sunday.
A new on-ramp opened shortly before 2 p.m. today for motorists traveling from Levee Road to northbound Interstate 29/35. It is the fourth of 16 new ramps to open in connection with the Paseo Bridge project, which also includes the widening of I-29/35 northeast of the downtown loop.
Reality: 21,000 extra teens downtown — plus the massive buses that brought them here — means fewer spaces than usual for the rest of us to park. Suggestion: Pay attention to signs.
TOPEKA | The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld Benjamin Appleby’s murder conviction and Hard 50 prison sentence for killing Leawood teen Ali Kemp in 2002. But the court reversed a second conviction — and a 19-year sentence — for attempted rape, saying it would be unconstitutional to convict Appleby twice for the same offense.
Authorities today charged a teen who allegedly shot and killed 20-year-old Taylor Holman on a Midtown Kansas City street. Nathaniel A. Brown, 18, of Kansas City is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Sept. 13 homicide.
Buying art is Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art director Bruce Hartman’s favorite pastime. On Thursday he learned he can pick up the pace, thanks to a million-dollar gift from Johnson County philanthropist and art collector Mary Cohen.
A bystander called police after hearing a gunshot and seeing a man limping out of a Northeast area carwash stall Thursday afternoon. When officers arrived, according to their report, the victim said he had been shot in the knee but refused to say who shot him or why.
The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity.
With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade.
The 32 American students chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2010, listed by geographic region:
When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winner as well.
Complete list of winners at the American Music Awards:
A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wanted people to stop complaining for a day and count their blessings.
A moderate Democratic senator who voted to allow debate over a health care bill says he might not support the bill in its next hurdle in the Senate.
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.
In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked.
The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently.
The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes health care debate that's sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics today.
Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decades.
Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.
During his first 10 months in office, as global trade contracted sharply, President Barack Obama avoided pursuing free-trade pacts and limited his public moves on the trade front to high-profile and often politically popular retaliatory actions.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.
Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.
Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate.
A leading Democratic senator says the proposed health care overhaul must pass the Senate by the end of the year, so that lawmakers can begin to concentrate on the economy and job creation.
The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred.
Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive.
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads.
Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political views
Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.
A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said.
A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.
A low-pressure system that has lingered in the Gulf of Mexico the past few days, bringing rain to the Gulf Coast, was expected to finally move inland into the Southeast on Sunday. This was likely to translate to widespread rain and even a few thunderstorms in the area even as the system weakens while moving toward the Southeast coast.
Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it.
A Democratic senator says moderates in his party shouldn't be allowed to dictate the terms of the health care debate and that the final bill should include a government-run option for Americans lacking insurance.
Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll.
Two Democratic senators say the health care overhaul bill now going to the Senate floor for debate is a key to saving jobs and reducing the spiraling American budget deficit.
A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.
India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has arrived in Washington for a visit to be highlighted by an official welcoming ceremony and a state dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama.
