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Idled American workers, this is not your parents recession. Unemployment rocketed above 10 percent in October, the first double-digit rate since the recession in the early 1980s.But experts warned that the current job-market malaise wont be cured as easily this time around.

The holiday season whizzes by before you know it, so why not carve out some me time and take a tranquil tour of lavishly decorated mansions, historic landmarks and contemporary condos?Holiday homes tours are plentiful this time of year in the metro area, and theres an assortment to choose from Victorian-era homes in Pendleton Heights, mansions ...

RAYTOWN, Mo. a ' Police are telling NBC Action News a bomb threat at an area high school was unfounded.

The Raytown, Mo. Police Department conducted a traffic safety checkpoint Halloween night, and stopped more than 600 vehicles.

The court also ordered Gallegos to pay $11,880 in restitution for the victima s funeral costs.

A third Kansas City-area man has been sentenced in a methamphetamine conspiracy that led to the killing of an Independence man three years ago.

A Missouri Appeals Court panel today ordered a new trial for the convicted killer of an elderly Raytown couple.The court ruled that Kellen C. McKinney should not have been tried for attempted escape from jail at the same time he was tried for the killings of Mildred and John Caylor.The three-judge panel ruled that the law required that McKinney, ...

The problem Aaron Hynds complains that his Kansas City neighborhood, just south of Interstate 470 between James A. Reed and Raytown roads, was without water pressure for four days in September.

Independence School District Superintendent Jim Hinson readily acknowledges ita s tough to ask voters to approve a tax increase in turbulent economic times.

RAYTOWN, Mo.- After a Raytown student reported that a stranger tried to abduct them, parents in the district receieved a letter outlining tips you can use to talk to your kids about the danger of strangers.

A note went home to parents in the Raytown school district on Tuesday afternoon warning of a stranger danger just feet from a school.

An SUV crashed into a home at Raytown Road and Gregory Boulevard Tuesday evening.

A local school is sending parents a warning. Tuesday, the Raytown School District sent letters home to parents of an attempted abduction.

A Jackson County jury convicted a Raytown man today in a murder recorded by surveillance cameras at a south Kansas City bar in 2006.The jury also convicted Sylvester R. Sisco II, 27, on one count of first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action.

The signposts of history hugging the margins of 63rd Street are easy to miss. The wooden marker that highlights the intersection with the dusty Santa Fe Trail juts awkwardly from the lawn slab in front of a UMB Bank .

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' Several Missouri driver testing offices will be closed or have reduced hours Thursday so staff members can attend a meeting.

Anastasia Hope 's words are iced with sugary defiance. Smiling sweetly behind a desk heaped with used paperbacks and hard-cover books, she doesn't need any provocation to emphasize that she isn't in the business of irony.

Are Network Thermostats for You? You should look into network thermostats if: You have been under pressure to reduce energy use.

People wanting to take their drivers examination next week better plan ahead area driver testing stations will be closed or have reduced hours so driver examiners to attend the annual Missouri Highway Patrol troop meeting.The highway patrol announced that the following testing stations will be closed on Oct.

Terrance Wainright apologized in one breath, then blamed his victim in the next.But a Jackson County judge told Wainright on Friday that the blame ultimately came back to him and then sentenced him to life in prison without parole for the 1997 killing of his 15-year-old stepdaughter.Wainright was sentenced to an additional 90 years for wounding his ...