Former KCMO mayor honored with pavilion named for him at convention center
Kansas City, Missouri, honored one of its most energetic and charismatic recent mayors by naming a pavilion in his honor at the city's convention center.
FEMA employee from Kansas City area disappears in SE Missouri
Friends and co-workers of a 32-year-old Kansas City-area man are concerned about his well-being after he failed to show up to work on Saturday, June 21.
Former William Jewell College student arrested for alleged threats
A former William Jewell College student is in custody for allegedly making threats to students and staff over the weekend.
Jackson County prosecutor comments on violent weekend in Kansas City, Missouri
Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson described the violent events of this weekend in Kansas City, Missouri, as both “heartbreaking and infuriating."
New nonprofit aims to tackle affordable housing crisis in Kansas City area
Driven Development, the nonprofit arm of VanTrust Real Estate, is looking at sites to build new homes and renovate existing buildings.
Police ID victim killed in Sunday shooting at 18th and Vine District in KCMO
Police in Kansas City, Missouri, say a 26-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday in a shooting near Kansas City’s 18th and Vine District.
KCPD car wrecks cost hundreds of thousands in settlements each year — paid by...
Two days before Independence Day in 2019, Kansas City bus driver Andrea Sturgis was driving her KCATA bus west on 39th Street in Kansas City with half a dozen passengers on board. Most were going to work at the University of Kansas Medical Center. At 5:56 a.m. — about 15...
Chicken Salad Chick to Open First Restaurant in Kansas
Atlanta — Chicken Salad Chick, the nation’s only fast-casual chicken salad restaurant concept, will open its first restaurant in Kansas on July 1 — expanding the brand’s footprint to 22 states. The new restaurant will be located in Overland Park. Sisters Jo Anne Williams and Cindy...
Sunday Evening Disturbance Leads to Homicide
The KCPD Media Unit reports that on Sunday evening, June 22, just after 8:30 PM, Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) officers were dispatched to the 5400 block of Winner Road on a reported disturbance. When officers arrived, they located security guards on duty at the nearby Greenleaf apartment complex. The...
Olathe woman gets 18 years in fatal drug overdose of Overland Park woman
An Olathe woman will spend 18 years in prison for causing an Overland Park woman’s fatal drug overdose. On June 16, Beulah Beatrice Quiroz was sentenced in Johnson County District Court to 220 months in prison for distribution of a controlled substance causing death. Judge Michael P. Joyce handed down the sentence.
