6+ hour, 20+ min ago   (134+ words) Two people are dead after a Saturday afternoon homicide in the Kansas City, Kansas, downtown area, according to law enforcement. Just before 3:20 p.m. Saturday, the Kansas City, Kansas, police department was called to the intersection of 7th Street and Nebraska Avenue because…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (253+ words) A Lawrence man was charged on Thursday in a rape that occurred in 2009, according to police and court records. Lawrence Police alleged that DNA that was recently submitted for testing linked the man to the assault. Court records show prosecutors…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (197+ words) A Leavenworth man has been convicted of stealing copper from a church and burglarizing a home. Rickey D. Hundley, 62, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of residential burglary pertaining to a home break-in on June 24, and one count of criminal…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (187+ words) Prosecutors said a wanted man charged with murder in a fatal shooting during an attempted vehicle theft at a gas station in Kansas City’s Northland on Monday has been arrested. In a social media post Thursday morning, Clay County Prosecutor…...

3+ day, 19+ min ago   (364+ words) A Kansas City man has been charged with arson in connection with a fire that took place at the vacant Olive Park Village Apartments complex, which has been the site of more than 30 fires that police are investigating. Kevone J. Allen…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (135+ words) A pedestrian died hours after they were hit by a car while crossing a road on Kansas City’s east side Tuesday afternoon, police say. The victim was declared deceased Tuesday night, according to a news release from Capt. Jacob Becchina,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (695+ words) But none of the aforementioned departments utilizes a real-time database like the one recently unveiled in Overland Park, and that needs to change. For the sake of transparency, law and order and public safety, any police department in our region…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (180+ words) An Arizona man indicted by a federal grand jury appeared in U.S. District Court in Kansas City Wednesday on charges he attempted to entice a minor for sex. Dustin A. Hill, 22, allegedly traveled from Arizona to the Show-Me State and “then transported…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (406+ words) A former bank vice president in west-central Missouri has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges involving a scheme that defrauded individuals and a financial institution of millions of dollars. Craig Johnson, 45, of Butler, pleaded guilty to federal charges including wire…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (249+ words) After more than a weeklong trial, a Johnson County jury found Axel Arellanes-Vara guilty Wednesday of capital murder in an Olathe double homicide nearly five years ago. Arellanes-Vara is scheduled for sentencing Nov. 3. In the early hours of Nov. 20, 2021, Olathe…...