Brian Parks, a Harrisonville man accused of killing one person and inuring another in a 2016 shooting, was convicted of murder in Cass County Circuit Court after a three-day jury trial.
A Kansas City police crime scene technician, Marisa Smith, is collecting new bed sheets for victims of rape and sexual assault as part of a new program.
Thu Hong Nguyen was sentenced Friday to 74 years in prison for murder and arson in the 2015 fire on Independence Boulevard that killed Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio.
The family of David Cannon, a 79-year-old killed in a hit-and-run crash in south Kansas City Wednesday, is calling on the public to contact authorities if they have information about the suspected driver who fled the scene at Bannister and Wornall roads.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree on Friday announced that John Warczakoski, a former deputy sheriff, has been charged with two counts of sexual battery.
Charges have been filed against a man who allegedly led police on a pursuit that ended with a crash on Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Kan. A passenger in the suspect’s car was pronounced dead after the crash.
Court documents were released Friday in the case of Adam Thomas, a candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives who is charged with election perjury.
A man fatally shot Thursday afternoon in Kansas City was identified by police Friday as Steven Shannon. The 40-year-old man was fatally shot near 73rd Street and College Avenue.
A Kansas City man, previously convicted of possessing child pornography, faces at least 15 years in prison after his probation officer discovered additional pornographic images on his phone.
Friends of Mary Schmitz, who was fatally shot in an Independence apartment Tuesday, gathered at a Blue Springs park to honor the 20-year-old woman during with a vigil and balloon release.
Judge sentences Calvin Williford, longtime aide to former Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders, to six months in prison. Williford is cooperating in two active investigations.
Former Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders’ prison sentence is a reminder of Kansas City’s long history of political corruption dating back to the days of Tom Pendergast. Here is KC’s Political Hall of Shame.
Marisa Smith, a crime scene technician at the Kansas City Police Crime Lab, started collecting new sets of bed sheets in July 2018 to give to sexual assault victims whose bedding is often taken by police for evidence.
The families of fallen firefighters Larry Leggio and John Mesh respond after Thu Hong Nguyen was sentenced to 74 years in prison for the arson fire that killed the two men in October of 2015.
Friends gathered for a vigil for Mary Schmitz, 20, who was fatally shot Tuesday in an Independence apartment. The vigil, Thursday at Keystone Park in Blue Springs, remembered Schmitz as "A beautiful soul."
Marisa Smith, a crime scene technician at the Kansas City Police Crime Lab, started collecting new sets of bed sheets in July 2018 to give to sexual assault victims whose bedding is often taken by police for evidence.
