Overland Park KS

Merriam Police are investigating after a man was found dead along the Turkey Creek Streamway Trail on Thursday afternoon. Captain Jerimiah Waters, spokesperson for the police department, told the Post that officers were called to the area by a person walking the trail, who found the man’s body just inside the woods,...

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Quick Pick lottery ticket turned into an $11,000 jackpot for a Jackson County resident who discovered the win while casually checking numbers. The Missouri Lottery says the winner claimed the prize from the Feb. 2 Show Me Cash drawing. “I usually get a ticket...

A metro area man will spend more than 15 years in prison for selling the drugs that killed another person in 2020.

Reggie Brown, the longtime Kansas City gospel radio host known to listeners as Reggie B., built a ministry that reached well beyond the studio walls, offering comfort and encouragement through a voice many in the community came to trust like family. His daughter, Porcha Brown, grew up watching her father set the...

KANSAS CITY —Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced multiple felony charges against a Kansas City man in connection with a shooting that killed one and injured another at a fast-food restaurant. Joseph H. Watson, 22, faces 2nd Degree Felony Murder, three counts of Armed Criminal Action, one count of...

Major changes to a once-derelict shopping center in Shawnee are expected to be completed in time for the World Cup. At a Shawnee City Council meeting in January, the owner of the Westbrooke Green shopping center at 75th Street and Quivira Road gave an update on the ongoing renovations to the complex, including what...

Sometimes the most extraordinary culinary experiences happen in the most ordinary-looking places, hiding in plain sight like delicious secrets waiting to be discovered by those in the know. Pancho’s Mexican Food in Overland Park, Kansas is exactly that kind of revelation – a modest establishment that delivers...

Eight days before Josue Avila-Carcamo is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in last weekend’s double homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, police arrested him on an outstanding domestic violence warrant. Karl Oakman, police chief of the Kansas City Kansas Police Department, said that warrant stemmed from a 2024 incident...

Three Kansas chefs and a Kansas cocktail bar are among semifinalists in the prestigious 2026 James Beard Award competition honoring culinary excellence. That nationwide competition, representing the "pinnacle of culinary recognition in the U.S.," has been held since 1990 by the James Beard Foundation and is presented...

The 18th and Vine Jazz District in Kansas City continues to draw musicians and visitors from around the world.