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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) -A driver was killed early Saturday morning after a pickup truck rear-ended a car at a high rate of speed on N. Oak Trafficway near NE 103rd Street, according to the Kansas City Police Department. Officers from the North Patrol Division and the Accident Investigation Section...

Two Kansas City-area gardens are merging under one ownership starting immediately. Powell Gardens, the botanical garden located in Kingsville 40 miles southeast of Kansas City, announced in a press release Thursday that it has acquired Colonial Gardens, a Blue Springs garden center. As a result, Colonial Gardens will...

Kansas City Fire Department companies were dispatched to a reported fire in the 6000 block of East 93rd Street at 1:36 a.m. On arrival, crews reported heavy fire showing from a 1-story house. A defensive fire attack was initiated to extinguish the fire. Searches throughout the structure were performed and...

A Columbia, Missouri, man who drew attention during a tense fentanyl bust at an Oklahoma casino is now headed to federal prison for 15 years. Walter Antwine Moore, 44, was sentenced Wednesday (February 25) to 180 months behind bars by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays. Moore had already admitted guilt to several federal...

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....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s Mayor Pro Tem is speaking out one day after FOX4 first reported an FBI investigation involving her and her husband. “Colleagues, I want to address what some would call the elephant in the room,” Parks-Shaw said during a public meeting. Five...

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

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.