Kansas City News

Volunteers filled individual meal trays destined for shut-in residents in the metro area at Pleasant Green Baptist Church, 340 David L Gray Drive, in Kansas City, KS, on Friday December 25, 2009.

A manufacturing plant in the Martin City industrial area of south Kansas City is being evacuated because of an airborne health hazard.

Kansas Republicans plan to meet Jan. 5 to pick a replacement for a legislator from the Kansas City area.

A major winter storm lumbering across the nation's midsection promised a white Christmas for some but brought headaches for residents without power and travelers crawling along slick, icy roads and dealing with canceled and delayed flights.

The Onaga Police Department reports the arrest of Michael Scott Bridges, 45, of Kansas City, Kansas on December 23rd, 2009 by the Kansas City Kansas Police Department.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a Kansas City, Kan., man suspected of killing four people in June.

Spay & Neuter Kansas City director of operations Tamara Scharfenkamp holds Bear, a chow mix puppy, while Michelle Dormandy, president of SNKC, scatters straw next to two dog houses they delievered on Wednesday, Dec.

Authorities have charged a teen who allegedly shot at police after he stepped out of a stolen car tied to multiple burglaries last week.Jaron A. Bradley, 19, of Grandview was charged Friday with first-degree assault, illegally discharging a firearm, tampering with a motor vehicle and two counts of armed criminal action.According to Kansas City ...

Growing up in Kansas City, Eric Stonestreet pictured his future behind bars, not as a convict but as a prison administrator.

Christmas came three days early at a Goodwill store in Maine's largest city.An anonymous man dressed in a Santa suit handed out envelopes containing $100 each to 100 unsuspecting shoppers Tuesday evening at the store in Portland.The surprise giveaway was similar to what a Missouri man did for years.

The Kansas City Star opinion pages won two of seven national awards for 2009 presented by the Association of Opinion Page Editors.

More than 560 Kansas Army National Guard soldiers have been assigned to security duty in the Horn of Africa next year.

A judge in Kansas is set to hear pretrial motions in the case of the man charged with killing one of the nation's few doctors who performed late-term abortions.

A man was killed Monday night in an apparent domestic dispute in Kansas City, Kan.Police were called to a house in the 2900 block of Hutchings Street on a report of a shooting at 6:40 p.m. They found a man in his 50s dead inside and took a female suspect into custody.

Kansas City, Kansas Police have a female suspect in custody after a man in his 50s was found dead in a home in the 2900 block of Hutchings Street.

" Some KCK residents are scared after learning the master keys to their homes were stolen.

A 20-year-old man was shot in the back after leaving a Kansas City party early today but didnt notice the wound until his mom pointed out the blood later.After being shot, the victim walked to a convenience store, where he called his mother for a ride.

Lloyd Folsom and Everett "Skeet" Bishop got to be friends years ago after meeting each other in a mule-riding club.

Police tonight were surrounding a house in the 4000 block of Morrell where two suspects in an armed robbery have refused to surrender.Police said they were called about 3:30 p.m. to a residence in the 3900 block of Windsor where the victim said he and his 11-year-old nephew had been robbed at gunpoint by several males.

Authorities said today they have charged a man who allegedly robbed a Minskys Pizza deliveryman at gunpoint last week.Antonio R. Blaylock, 20, of Kansas City is charged with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action.Court documents say the victim showed up to deliver a pizza to an apartment in the 3200 block of Harrison Street Monday night, ...