A girl was dead and an elderly woman in critical condition tonight after their car apparently was struck by a vehicle that had fled a police stop a short time earlier.
U.S. Senate candidate Jim Slattery today released a list of his clients from his years as a Washington lobbyist.
A pharmacy employee was attacked Sunday night by five men, who stole 2,500 doses of liquid narcotics and 45,000 pills, police said today.
Phyllis Schlafly, a national leader of the conservative movement since the early 1960s and founder of the Eagle Forum, has pointed her pen at Johnson County and how judges get their jobs.
A thief with a stolen backhoe tried — but failed — to steal an automated teller machine in Mission over the weekend, causing $50,000 to $75,000 damage.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. | Officials say an elderly Hutchinson woman is dead after fire swept her apartment.
ST. LOUIS | Two people are dead in a triple shooting during a robbery at a St. Louis business. The shooting happened at Rock Bottom Wholesale around 12:30 p.m. Monday.
VIDEO
Partly sunny Wednesday, chance of rain Thursday. Highs in the 60s, lows in the 40s. Mostly sunny Friday through Sunday with temperatures rising from the 70s into the lower 80s. Lows in the 50s and 60s.
As expected, a Missouri Senate committee this afternoon approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow lawmakers to impose photo-ID requirements on voters.
FORT RILEY, Kan. | Another group of Fort Riley soldiers are coming home from 15 months in Iraq.
WASHINGTON | The revolving door between former members of Congress and lucrative lobbying firms usually leads one way. But Jim Slattery is trying to make a U-turn.
Authorities have released the names of 14 victims of the deadly tornado that killed 15 people Saturday in southwest Missouri:
Kansas City police are looking for two men who robbed a woman on her front porch Sunday night in the 4300 block of Charlotte Street.
SENECA, Mo. | Trapped in his car on the way to a friend’s wedding, Rick Rountree and his family never stood a chance once a tornado packing winds of 170 mph hit southwest Missouri.
A Blue Springs man allegedly spent two years training a 12-year-old girl to be a dominatrix before selling videotaped sex encounters with her to others.
KIRKWOOD, Mo. | Former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda is back in the hospital. A spokeswoman at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in suburban St. Louis said Swoboda was in satisfactory condition after being brought in Sunday.
JEFFERSON CITY | A Missouri Lotto jackpot worth $2.2 million has not been claimed. The Missouri Lottery says the winning ticket from the April 26 drawing was purchased at Deer Run Quick Mart in O’Fallon.
The polish woman whose heroics during the Holocaust were brought to light by four Kansas high school girls has died.
The parents of a man shot to death in 2007 have added $7,500 to a reward fund for information leading to a suspect.
Daniel L. Riemann, 25, disappeared from a party Saturday night at a friend’s house in the 4900 block of Summit Street in Kansas City.
After more than two decades as president of Kansas State University, Jon Wefald will serve in that position for just one more year.
The Chiefs signed four players from their recent tryout camp to two-year contracts on Monday. They are wide receiver Kevin McMahan, fullback Steven Jackson, tackle Ken Shackleford and linebacker E.J Kuale.
A man was shot and then run over on St. Francis just south of Dewey shortly after 8 a.m. today, Wichita police reported. The victim's body is still lying on St. Francis just north of the Kellogg flyover, and police have closed off the street with crime scene tape.
ST. LOUIS | Missouri lags behind the rest of the nation when it comes to cycling and walking as a means of commuting.
"Illegal immigrants should be put on notice that our state will not become a harbor for their illegal activity," Blunt said in a statement.
Jackson County prosecutors have charged a 38-year-old Kansas City man with assault and armed criminal action in the stabbing of his brother-in-law.
Women can have their blood pressure and cholesterol checked from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the True Light Family Resource Center, 719 E. 31st St. The free health screening is part of National Women’s Check-up Day.
VIDEO
Two early morning wrecks, one on each side of the state line, have caused traffic delays during the morning rush hour.
An SUV carrying four people skidded out of control, ripped off a power pole and overturned this evening on Holmes Road.
A malfunctioning siren woke and confused many Overland Park residents overnight. Overland Park police dispatchers were flooded with calls after the outdoor warning siren at 80th Street and Overland Park Drive began wailing shortly before midnight Saturday, even though there was no threatening weather.
Brian Bannister gave up no runs and two hits over eight innings, giving the Royals a 4-0 victory Sunday over the Orioles in front of a Mother’s Day crowd of 18,635 at Kauffman Stadium.
Police on Sunday identified a man shot Friday by an officer responding to a call at a house in east Kansas City.
Sprint Nextel sales declined 9 percent. Controller William Arendt said the company will continue to cut costs by cutting jobs. He didn’t specify a number.
Three people were injured in a shooting shortly before midnight Saturday in downtown Kansas City, Kan.
A 44-year-old Kansas City man was shot to death on the front steps of a relative’s home early today.
Kansas City police were optimistic they would be able to find the driver who hit and killed a 25-year-old Lansing man walking on Ward Parkway early this morning.
VIDEO
Kansas City's 6-5 loss to Baltimore on Saturday extended the Royals' losing streak against the Orioles to 12 in a row and included a rain delay of 1 hour and 52 minutes in the first inning after the Royals had already worked themselves into a 3-0 hole.
Quarterback D. Bryant completed 22 of 30 passes for 215 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions and ran for another score as the Brigade defeated the Columbus Destroyers 59-43 on Saturday night at the Sprint Center.
VIDEO
RACINE, Mo. | The area around Bill and Jane Lant’s destroyed businesses was strewn this morning with wedding gowns, tuxedos and other apparel.
VIDEO
Eight-time American Royal Grand Champion Chris Marks gave a lesson in smoking Saturday at the Backyard Bash BBQ Headquarters in Parkville.
More than a third of the 23 people killed by a tornado that smashed parts of Oklahoma and Missouri over the weekend died in cars, troubling experts who say vehicles are one of the worst places to be during a twister.
Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle.
A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country's worst quake in three decades.
Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.
Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 - even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.
The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.
A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member.
John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Myanmar's military junta Monday for what he called its "unacceptably slow response" to helping cyclone victims.
Wearing a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military Monday, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton implored West Virginians to sustain her hopes of somehow denying him the Democratic presidential nomination.
Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday.
Forced to pay for once-free sandwich toppings and twice as much for some steak cuts, shoppers are wondering whether higher grocery bills and restaurant tabs truly reflect the trickle down of a global rise in food prices.
A U.S. plane ferried relief to Myanmar for the first time Monday to help nearly 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation, but the U.N. chief criticized the military junta for its "unacceptably slow response."
Tribune Co.'s $650 million sale of Newsday is an important step toward alleviating its debt burden - for this year.
Heavy rain drenched the mid-Atlantic region Monday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers, flooding roads and chasing people out of their homes.
The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds.
Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II, with a bill they hope will buoy them this election season and become an albatross for Republicans.
Serbia's nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals' claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government.
Soldiers deployed throughout the mountains overlooking the capital Monday after at least 11 people were killed in clashes between government supporters and opponents in the area, security officials and paramedics said.
A medical helicopter dropped off a patient and then crashed shortly after it took off on its return flight to Madison, killing the surgeon, nurse and pilot on board, officials said Sunday.
Former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said Sunday that he thinks Barack Obama will be the party's presidential nominee and that Hillary Rodham Clinton must be careful not to damage the party's prospects in November as she continues her campaign.
Documents that Colombia says it recovered from a slain guerrilla leader give the clearest indication yet that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to arm and finance insurgents across the border.
President Bush spent months joking about being a father of the bride, but on Sunday he was downright wistful about giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.
Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win.
Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone.
Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 23 people in three states.
On this 100th anniversary of Mother's Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world's most celebrated holidays probably wouldn't be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.
Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before, and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.
Militants were withdrawing from the streets and shops were reopening in Baghdad's Sadr City on the first day of a cease-fire between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces following two months of intense clashes.
