Kansas City police officers persuaded a suicidal man holding a gun to his head to release a woman and then surrender Saturday night in the Northland.
A 29-year-old man was killed when he was struck by a train, this afternoon in Lawrence. According to Lawrence police, an eastbound train struck the man shortly after noon at 7th and Maple streets. Police are investigating the death but, they said they did not suspect foul play.
Police are investigating a multiple shooting that left one person dead early this morning on Kansas City’s east side.
A Friday night fire caused by fireworks damaged a Kansas City house. Fire officials said that fireworks landing on the roof of a vacant house at 5703 Woodland Ave. caused about $25,000 in damage. There were no injuries.
WICHITA | A 3-year-old autistic boy has drowned in a Wichita lake. Wichita Fire Department Battalion Chief Rob Hughes says the boy was found dead Friday night in water near the bank of the lake at O.J. Watson Park.
Lawrence police say a man suspected of killing a University of Kansas law student killed himself while in custody in New Jersey.
WINFIELD, Mo. | A week after the Mississippi River broke through the Pin Oak levee and began inundating this northeast Missouri town, signs that worst is over were everywhere.
Four hours of closed-door talks Saturday failed to produce an agreement in a financial dispute between the Independence and Kansas City school districts.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. | For more than 20 years, parts of a skeleton have sat forgotten in a basement closet at Southeast Missouri State University.
Two persons were stabbed in separate incidents in Independence late Friday. The first stabbing occurred about 10:30 p.m. at 1505 S. Evanston Ave. The second happened about 11:40 p.m. at 302 N. Hocker Ave.
Jimmy Bartle Taylor, the daughter and only child of H. Roe Bartle, former Kansas City mayor, died late Friday at St. Luke’s Hospital. Taylor, 83, became ill Tuesday at the home of a Kansas City friend.
A 41-year-old man is in critical condition tonight after a shooting near 50th Street and Glenside Drive.
Kansas City police are investigating the armed robbery of the Gamestop in Westport. Shortly after 3:20 p.m. today, a man wearing a mask showed a gun to the clerk and money from a cash register at the store at 906 Westport Road.
A woman operating a motorized wheelchair took a stab at breaking up an armed robbery today in Kansas City.
An area man faces a federal court detention hearing Monday after being charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
State investigators arrested a Phoenix, Ariz., man with boating while intoxicated Thursday after he grounded his boat at Lake of the Ozarks.
SEDALIA, Mo. _ After chowing down funnel cakes and cold drinks at the Missouri State Fair in August, people will be able to recycle some of their trash during the 11-day event.
GIRARD, Kan. _ A court has dismissed charges against a southeast Kansas man accused of starving three bulldogs found in his freezer because the case didn't go to trial quickly enough.
Lawrence police are looking tonight for a 46-year-old man who is charged with murder in the death of 25-year-old University of Kansas student Jana Lynne Mackey.
Two Marshall, Mo., teenagers died Thursday in a one-car accident in Saline County, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
A Kansas City man remained in federal custody Friday after prosecutors charged him late the day before with carjacking.
A Kansas City, Kan., man remained behind bars today on $100,000 cash bond after Jackson County prosecutors charged him with a string of violent felonies.
Lawrence police are searching for a 46-year-old man charged with second-degree murder in the off-campus death of a University of Kansas student.
The call came in Wednesday afternoon about a vicious dog. By Thursday morning, Wichita Animal Control and police officers had confiscated what they said are the remains of a dogfighting site at a home in a northeast residential neighborhood.
A pedestrian was injured in a hit-and-run accident on Independence Avenue late Thursday night. The collision was reported about 11:50 p.m. near the intersection of Monroe Avenue.
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BALTIMORE | Just when it seemed the Royals were about to prompt an EPA investigation Thursday night for wasting a rare homer by Tony Peňa, they flattened the Baltimore Orioles with a seven-run sixth inning and claimed a 10-7 victory at Camden Yards.
A last-minute delay in road work will force highway crews to keep the ramp from northbound I-29 to North Oak Trafficway closed through the Fourth of July weekend.
Fourth of July swimmers at Lake of the Ozarks are urged to be cautious after recent water-quality tests found high levels of bacteria in five lake coves.
Some abortion opponents doubt a state law restricting late-term procedures needs to be rewritten, despite a grand jury's conclusion that it isn't clear enough to allow an indictment of Dr. George Tiller.
JEFFERSON CITY | Gov. Matt Blunt has approved tougher rules for boating while intoxicated, making the threshold for drunken boating on lakes and major rivers the same as for motorists.
Kansas City Power & Light crews continue to work tonight to restore power to the about 2,500 customers still without electricity after last night’s storms.
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Warming into the upper 80s and low 90s Saturday through Wednesday with chances of showers nearly every day. Lows will be in the upper 60s and lower 70s.
The Kansas City Royals have promoted J.J. Picollo to assistant general manager of scouting and player development.
Jimmy Bartle Taylor, the daughter and only child of H. Roe Bartle, former Kansas City mayor, is in critical condition at St. Luke’s Hospital, the family confirmed today.
The Independence School District filed two actions today in Jackson County Circuit Court relating to the ongoing property battle with the Kansas City School District and the nonprofit corporation that owns Kansas City’s buildings.
TOPEKA | Donors to 24 nonprofit groups will be able to obtain $4.13 million in income tax credits, thanks to the Kansas Department of Commerce.
The Lottery said it will pay holders of tickets with either the correct numbers or the numbers that were incorrectly announced.
JEFFERSON CITY | Democratic Attorney General candidate Margaret Donnelly rolled out several policy proposals in a press conference here this morning.
Rainfall — ranging from four inches to more than six inches — caused unprecedented flash flooding over roadways and in creek bottoms in southern Platte County Wednesday night.
OTTAWA, Kan. | Police say an Ottawa woman has been cited after one of her family’s pet bats bit her son.
President Bush on Sunday defended removing North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and attending the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics as world leaders assembled to address soaring gas prices, climate change and African aid.
Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress. Lawmakers want to try to save homeowners from foreclosure, avert Medicare cuts and give the government power to spy on suspected terrorists.
Firefighters got a gift of a mild, mostly windless night and a forecast for similar conditions Sunday as they attempted to protect thousands of Santa Barbara County homes from a huge wildfire, one of more than 300 taxing their energy and resources around the state.
Afghanistan's president has ordered an investigation into allegations that missiles from U.S. helicopters struck civilians, though the Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the attack killed or wounded 20 militants.
Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.
President Bush spoke out Sunday on the Beijing Olympics and North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens, two sensitive issues in Asia, before turning attention to global talks on the Earth's rising temperature and oil prices.
John McCain calls himself an underdog. That may be an understatement. The GOP presidential candidate trails Democrat Barack Obama in polls, organization and money while trying to succeed a deeply unpopular fellow Republican in a year that favors Democrats.
Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past.
The three American hostages rescued by Colombia's military said in their first public statement that they are doing fine and are thrilled to "return home to the country we love."
Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
A wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.
Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
Dale Metta, who manages a gun shop just outside the District of Columbia limits in Maryland, has had to turn away dozens of city residents wanting to buy handguns in recent days. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down Washington's 32-year-old ban on possessing handguns.
Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch succeeded Saturday in his third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Iran indicated Saturday that it has no plans to meet a key Western demand that it stop enriching uranium, a day after Tehran sent the European Union a response to an international offer of incentives for halting enrichment.
When Venus Williams won her second match point of the day at Wimbledon, even little sister Serena could celebrate.
The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce.
Pakistani security forces have halted an operation against militants in the country's volatile northwest to try negotiating peace through tribal elders, officials said Saturday.
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony at Monticello, saying "I'll be proud to call you a fellow American."
The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.
At least one person fired a gun into a crowd in a street early Friday, killing four people and sending panicked revelers running for cover, police said.
Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq's biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.
Expect fewer slices of red, ripe tomatoes next to the grill this holiday weekend.
The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to documents a congressman released on July Fourth.
About 400 members of the Rainbow Family threw rocks and sticks at 10 federal officers as they tried to arrest a member of the group, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday.
Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high.
