Kansas City News

A game involving Roman candles led to a garage fire at a Kansas City, Kan., duplex.

Margaret Tascar would probably be in a nursing home, the 84-year-old says, if not for a state program that helps the elderly stay in their own homes.The service pays for a cleaning woman to stop by Tascars Overland Park apartment to do the type of housework Tascars bad knees no longer permit.

Authorities are investigating after explosive devices and a man's body were found inside the same Kansas City, Kan., home.

Local fire departments doused two vacant house fires early this morning.An arson fire gutted an empty home at 2823 Oakley Ave.

Terry "Harmonica" Bean performed at the blues festival Saturday afternoon. The two-day Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival concluded Saturday at 13th Street and State Avenue.

A man was found dead with military ordnance inside a house in the 4400 block of Eaton on July 3, 2009 in Kansas City, Kan.

Bullet holes dot the front of a house where a 7-year-old girl was killed in a drive-by shooting, and flowers and candles line a street corner two miles away where a 15-year-old boy was gunned down days later.

Friday, July 3, 2009 Some Kansas City, Kan., residents see a recent killing spurt that claimed nine lives as just the latest wave of violence for the city.

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Kansas City police were on the scene of a shooting early this morning. Police said one shooting victim showed up at a hospital about 4:30 a.m. Officers later located a crime scene near 26th Street and Bellefontaine Avenue and were still investigating at 6 a.m.An earlier shooting was reported just after 12:30 a.m. in northeast Kansas City.

Careless smokers and illegal fireworks are forcing fire inspectors in KCK to put in long hours to keep residents safe.

Healthcare advocate Kathie McClure spoke to those assembled on Monday afternoon outside Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care in Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas regulators have postponed a decision until July 17 on revoking licenses for closed racetracks in three cities.

A male juvenile was in critical condition Monday night after a shooting in Kansas City, Kan.

Guilty plea in child-sex caseRichard J. Oflyng, 32, of Ottawa, Kan., pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to commercial sex trafficking of a child.He admitted driving to an area residence, where he expected to meet a pimp offering him an 11-year-old girl for sex.

A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for setting up a cocaine deal in Olathe, federal authorities announced this morning.In March, Doris Antisdell, 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine.

The future of two pari-mutuel racetracks could be at stake when the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission meets Wednesday.

Adrian Burks, a 37-year-old man with a violent past, has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of his former girlfriend, a 3-year-old girl and two others in a house in Kansas City, Kan., on June 22, authorities said.

" Nine people are murdered in Kansas City, Kan., in the past nine days. Family tells us the latest victim is 15-year-old Edgar Carmona.

A fire early yesterday destroyed the Kansas City, Kan., law office of Rosie Quinn and Associates.