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COLUMBIA, Mo. | A Columbia man is accused of stealing a public works truck and trying to use it to run over a woman.
TOPEKA | A U.S. military veteran who went into a Veterans Affairs medical center with a gun Sunday and threatened to hurt himself was admitted to the hospital after surrendering the weapon, officials said.
A Nebraska man says his pilot daughter was attempting an aggressive maneuver, but he doesn't know what caused her plane to crash during practice for an air show Friday in northwest Missouri.
Three teenagers were injured in a Cass County accident about 10:45 p.m Saturday.
A man was shot in Kansas City, North, shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday after he had come, armed with a handgun, to the home of another man.
A man and teenage boy were arrested early Sunday when they were found driving a vehicle stolen in a strong-arm robbery, Kansas City police said.
One person was killed in an accident about 2:30 a.m. Sunday near 45th Street and Prospect Boulevard.
A 10-year-old Malden, Mo., boy is in the hospital after crashing his mom's car after taking it on a joy ride.
A driver of a vehicle was able to escape without injuries this afternoon after driving into an Overland Park pond. The crash happened about 2:50 p.m. at the corner of West 95th Street and Metcalf Avenue, according to a police dispatcher.
Two men died and four others suffered injuries in a collision west of Atchison, Kan., caused when one driver ran a stop sign. The deceased were identified as Matthew Dickson, 20, of Atchison and Thomas Conklin, 42, of Horton, Kan.
Five Kansas City, Kan., firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries this morning while fighting a blaze at a previously burned vacant two-story house. The fire was reported about 9:50 a.m. today near Fourth Street and Richmond Avenue. When firefighters arrived, heavy fire and smoke was coming from the building, according to Assistant Chief Craig Duke.
ST. LOUIS | Many of the 400-plus pit bulls seized in multistate dogfighting raids appear happy in their new digs at a temporary shelter in St. Louis, where one volunteer described them wagging their tails in seeming gratitude for newfound human contact.
TOPEKA | The Sunflower State Games have started in Topeka, with a record 43 athletic events being held over three weekends.
Firefighters found an injured man early this morning in front of burning vacant apartment building in Kansas City. The man, who was believed to have been inside the building, was found on the sidewalk in front of the building. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. The extent of his injuries was not known, but he had previous injures that were not related to the fire, said Fire Battalion Chief Joe Vitale.
Butler, Mo., residents are cleaning up after early morning storms caused scattered damage throughout the south-central part of their community. Strong straight-line winds are being blamed for toppling trees and damaging some buildings this morning in the Bates County community.
Police have arrested a 24-year-old Ottawa man in connection with what they believed to be a fatal shooting. Police identified the victim as Sky Nicole Cadarette, 19, of Ottawa. She appears to have died from a single gunshot wound, but police said the exact cause of death would be determined during an autopsy.
Kansas City police arrested 17 people overnight at a sobriety checkpoint for allegedly driving drunk. The checkpoint operated from 11 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday at West 56th Street and Ward Parkway.
An Overland Park Police Department saturation patrol arrested three people overnight on suspicion of driving under the influence. The special patrol, which operated between 11 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday, was looking for people who might be driving impaired. It stopped 13 vehicles and tested three drivers for driving drunk.
A female pilot was killed Friday in Tarkio, Mo., as she prepared for a weekend air show, the Atchison County Sheriff’s office said. The plane crashed about 2:30 p.m. while the pilot was practicing aerial acrobatics in a single-passenger, single-engine aircraft, according to the Tarkio police department.
The Ottawa Police Department was investigating the suspicious death of a young woman Friday in Ottawa.
One person died late Friday night after a car overturned in Kansas City, North.
A 52-year-old Clay County man charged earlier this week with sexual misconduct with a child committed suicide early Thursday. Gary W. Watts of Kansas City, North, was found outside a residence in the 6200 block of Northeast 68th Terrace. A neighbor told police he saw Watts shoot himself.
TOPEKA | A spending bill approved by the U.S. Senate contains $36 million for the construction of a new biosecurity laboratory in Kansas.
Authorities today charged two suspects in Wednesday’s bank holdup in Holden, Mo., in which the robbers opened fire on officers during a pursuit. Officers arrested Michael A. Leak, 18, of Fulton, Mo., in Columbia, Mo., on Thursday evening and arrested William Alan Wolfe, 28, of Fulton, Mo., on Friday.
TOPEKA | A legislative audit in Kansas has raised questions about the security of state computer networks and whether agencies are vulnerable to cyber attacks like a recent one against U.S. government Web sites.
WICHITA | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has referred to the Justice Department's internal watchdog a complaint alleging prosecutorial misconduct filed by a political activist targeted in a federal obstruction investigation in Kansas.
The former head of a Northland company pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to possess child pornography. Ronald Earl Elmquist, 63, of Dallas, Texas, was the CEO of QualServ Corp. of North Kansas City until November 2006.
Emergency crews detonated a suspicious package that was delivered today to the office of the Clay County Circuit Court clerk. No injuries or structural damage were reported. Investigators went to a rural area of Clay County to talk to a potential person of interest, Sheriff Bob Boydston said.
Johnson County prosecutors today charged an Overland Park businessman with stealing more than $100,000 through fraudulent commercial real estate loans and investments. James M. Watson, 30, is charged with felony theft after an investigation that involved prosecutors, the Overland Park police, the county sheriff and the Secret Service, District Attorney Steve Howe said in a press release.
A slight chance of showers or storms starts Saturday and lingers through Monday, with the heavy heat expected on Tuesday.
BRANSON, Mo. | Country music star Mickey Gilley is recovering from surgery after a fall he suffered over the Fourth of July weekend.
COTTLEVILLE, Mo. | The little St. Charles County community of Cottleville is encouraging the state to legalize the use of medical marijuana.
About a month ago, consultants told area transit planners that light rail would probably be too expensive with too few riders to ever qualify for federal funding. They strongly suggested that Kansas City find a way to cut transportation costs to make rail work, even possibly turning to modern streetcars.
A Kearney man who told authorities that a 6-year-old girl he was accused of sexually assaulting “was built like she is 13” was sentenced today to 18 years in prison. Mark Schmollinger, 55, pleaded guilty in Clay County Circuit Court to one count of first-degree statutory sodomy stemming from an incident involving a child on Aug. 15, 2008.
Shawnee police today released surveillance photos of an armed robber who held up a convenience store Thursday evening.
One of the nation’s most dynamic evangelists for urban education came to Kansas City today to describe how impoverished neighborhoods here can replicate the success he’s had in Harlem. Geoffrey Canada, founder and director of the nationally recognized Harlem Children’s Zone, told a packed audience in a downtown Marriott ballroom that America has to stop turning its back on children in poor communities.
QUINTER, Kan. | Waldo McBurney, who was designated as America's oldest worker, has died. He was 106.
Highway engineers hope to open a temporary northbound crossing over the Missouri River on Missouri 291 by the afternoon rush hour Tuesday.
A fire Thursday at a Shawnee business did an estimated $75,000 in damage, firefighters said. They arrived at Addict Skate Supply, 6471 Quivira Road, shortly before noon to find heavy fire in the rear of the business that is in a strip shopping center, they said.
Jennifer Dodd of Kansas City thanked God — and her seatbelt — for keeping her safe when her car rolled over on Truman Road this morning. Dodd was eastbound when a car rear-ended her SUV, sending it rolling across the westbound lanes before landing on its wheels and crashing into the corner of Midwest Radiator at Truman Road and Illinois Avenue.
Gay Austrian fashion devotee Bruno has landed the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, though it's uncertain how much staying power he has.
Police chiefs are backing appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor's bid to become a Supreme Court justice.
Police and prison guards aided by search dogs hunted Sunday for two convicted killers and a third man who escaped the maximum-security Indiana State Prison, apparently through underground tunnels and pipes.
A top Senate Republican says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will have to explain statements suggesting that judges can't be neutral, but he also acknowledges that her confirmation as the high court's first Hispanic justice won't be blocked.
The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Bush administration may have broken the law if it ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program.
The senior Republican senator who will question Sonia Sotomayor says the Supreme Court nominee must demonstrate she will not show bias on the bench.
President Barack Obama is back home after a whirlwind visit to Ghana.
A bus carrying a church youth group from Louisiana to Georgia flipped Sunday on Interstate 20 in Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 23 others, a coroner said.
The United States is ready to announce another $1 billion in orders for swine flu vaccinations.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin says Congress should investigate whether former Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the Bush administration ordered the CIA to conceal the existence of a counterterrorism program.
Sen. John McCain says he's against opening a criminal investigation into whether CIA officers tortured detainees during the Bush administration.
A 56-year-old man was charged with evidence tampering Sunday in connection with the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple known for adopting children with developmental disabilities, the Escambia County sheriff said.
Top members of Congress say it's unlikely they will meet President Barack Obama's August deadline for a sweeping health care overhaul.
President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States' history and should be taught in a way that connects that past cruelty to current events, such as the genocide in Darfur.
For a new president, there inevitably comes that moment: the first time he hears a foreign crowd hoarsely chanting his name, or sees thousands of well-wishers surging forward, or realizes youngsters are running pell-mell beside his motorcade, desperate for a glimpse of his face.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she's not only staying involved in national politics, but she plans to jump back into the national scrum when she leaves office at the end of the month.
Cleve Jones is happy. As happy as he has ever been, thank you. He has a labor union job he loves, powerful allies in Hollywood and Washington, guys to date. Best of all, a new generation of gay activists has embraced him as the mentor he once had, the man whose story he helped deliver to the screen in the movie "Milk."
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
Coyotes are often unwelcome guests, whether they're prowling city parks, stalking the prairies or roaming the modern American suburb. Usually they forage for food, snarf down a rodent or two and disappear into the night.
After years of funding shortfalls, legal aid societies across the country are being overwhelmed by growing numbers of poor and unemployed Americans who face eviction, foreclosure, bankruptcy and other legal problems tied to the recession.
Don't expect a lot of fireworks from the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday as it begins hearing testimony on whether Sonia Sotomayor should be the next Supreme Court justice.
Sonia Sotomayor is a groundbreaking nominee for the Supreme Court who defies easy pigeonholing.
The mother of a 20-year-old Somali man missing from Minneapolis says her son has been killed in Somalia.
A man who told an undercover policeman to get off his family's stoop punched the officer and struggled over the officer's gun before being shot dead, police said Sunday.
Last year's Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, says he doesn't think of Sarah Palin as quitting her job as much as changing her priorities.
When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries - and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Greyhound tracks are folding across the country, but in cash-strapped Rhode Island - where the unemployment rate is among the nation's worst - lawmakers are betting on the dogs to save jobs.
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
War is hell, it's long been said. But just how hellish it can be is a more difficult question, judging from disputes among researchers at several highly respected international peace institutes. They cannot agree on whether war is becoming more or less deadly - or even on how to count the dead.
Evangelist Tony Alamo once said God never wanted his ministry to be poor, but money raised by his followers only seems to go his way.
If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.
Republicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of unity from an out-of-power political party in search of a rallying cry against President Barack Obama.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill was among a group of American personnel who were uninjured when an explosive device detonated near their convoy in southern Iraq.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called for an expanded investigation into a suburban Chicago cemetery where four former employees are accused of digging up and dumping bodies in a scheme to resell plots.
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