A report of someone in the Kansas River near Interstate 435 and Holliday Drive turned out to be a false alarm, a Johnson County dispatcher said this morning.
FENTON, Mo. | A woman and a 4-year-old boy are critically injured after the car they were in plunged into the Meramec River in St. Louis County.
ST. LOUIS | Inmates, families, clergy and legislators are initiating a new civil action that challenges Missouri’s method of lethal injection, claiming it violates the state’s Administrative Procedure Act.
City Councilman Russ Johnson had a message Thursday for anyone who expects Union Station to ultimately become a transportation hub of commuter-rail and light-rail lines:
Jackson County prosecutors today accused a 19-year-old man of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend in 2005 as the boyfriend slept.
Westbound Interstate 435 through Overland Park will not be closed tonight and tomorrow night as planned.
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Police have identified a man who was shot and killed early this morning outside a Grain Valley nightclub.
Kansas City has received a six-month extension to submit its plan to federal authorities for overhauling its sewer system. The plan was originally due at the end of this month.
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Friends and classmates gathered this afternoon at Sumner Academy of Arts and Science to mourn the shooting death of a 16-year-old student, Scott Sappington Jr. of Kansas City, Kan.
Kansas City police are investigating a wreck early today caused by a driver going the wrong way on the interstate.
Both northbound lanes and one southbound lane of Nall Avenue are closed at 97th street because of a water main break.
Four years after Kansas City government stopped taking applications for its minor home repair services, it has retooled the program and will resume taking applications Aug. 1.
ST. LOUIS | A former consultant for Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis faces a federal indictment for allegedly stealing from the nation’s largest brewer.
The Kansas-Missouri men’s basketball games will get national exposure this season. The Big 12 announced its conference basketball schedules today, highlighted by the Border War battles.
Relatives of a 16-month-old boy were preparing to transfer him to a Cincinnati Shriners hospital after he fell into a bathtub of boiling water and suffered burns over 35 percent of his body.
Kansas City Councilwoman Cathy Jolly introduced an ordinance today to strengthen the city’s ability to prosecute people who violate orders of protection in domestic violence situations.
A 19-year-old Kansas City man pleaded guilty to carjacking Thursday in federal court. Demarko L. Collins admitted that he and Frederick Darrington pointed guns at a man driving a green Dodge Charger on April 9, 2007, and took his wallet, money, jewelry and car. Collins could face up to 15 years in prison.
A 34-year-old former nurse made his first appearance in court today after being charged with sexual battery.
A 59-year-old Topeka woman was arrested on prostitution charges Tuesday at an Osage County, Kan., business known as “Foxy Lady’s.
Kansas City firefighters are on the scene of a car fire on the second-level of a parking garage at 2323 Grand Boulevard.
