Kansas City MO

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Kansas City woman who was previously employed by the United States Postal Service pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted bank fraud. Court documents say 30-year-old Shawneasha L. Watson pled guilty to attempted ban fraud for altering and depositing stolen checks into her bank account....

Shawnee Police say a man fired at least 10 gunshots into his parents’ home near 71st Street and Quivira Road as they slept earlier this month. That incident led to a standoff at another home in Overland Park, with the man taken into custody without incident and noone at either address injured.

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A portion of U.S. Route 69 that runs through Platte County shut down Thursday for emergency repairs, marking the start of a month-long closure, officials said. Both the southbound and northbound lanes of the highway, also known as Northwest Vivion Road, are expected to remain closed at the intersection of Frontier...

The cuts are part of a $6 million reduction to violence prevention programming proposed in the city’s current budget.

WYANDOTTE COUNTY- A man wanted for murder in Denver remains behind bars in Kansas, after a multi-agency traffic stop. Just after noon, Feb. 20, The FBI and Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department's Special Operations Unit and Violent Crimes Task Force conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in Kansas City, Kansas,...

Kansas City Mayor Pro-Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw on Thursday blasted a report that she and her husband, a city director, were under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Parks-Shaw, speaking inside the Kansas City Council chambers at City Hall, said she has not been contacted by federal investigators, but...

CLAY COUNTY, Mo. (KQTV) -- A 40-year-old man from Bates City, Missouri, is dead after being struck by a vehicle when he entered the roadway on Interstate 35 Thursday night. The crash occurred around 8:24 p.m. at the 13.2-mile marker on I-35. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol Crash...

A federal judge granted Richard W. Brown, one of six defendants convicted in the 1988 deaths of six Kansas City, Missouri, firefighters, compassionate release from federal prison on Friday.

GLADSTONE, Mo. (KCTV) - What began as a normal lunch period at a North Kansas City preschool nearly ended in tragedy, until one teacher refused to panic. Cathy Campbell saved Eleanor’s life after the preschooler choked on a strawberry at lunch - performing the Heimlich maneuver saying the seconds felt like hours.