Raytown News

Officers with the Raytown Police Department, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies and U.S. Marshals fanned across Raytown Thursday, checking in with sex offenders to make sure the information in their registrations was correct.

The family of a man shot to death while jogging in Raytown earlier this month has added $500 to a reward fund for information in the unsolved homicide.The reward now stands at $1,500 for information in the death of Harry Stone, 60, who was shot in a random attack about 7 a.m. on Mother’s Day along Blue Ridge Boulevard near 67th Street.

Harry M. Stone, a 60-year-old member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Raytown, Mo.

Harry Stone was on one of his usual jogs in a Kansas City suburb shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sunday when an approaching car slowed down and a passenger shot him.

Branson, MO has become one of the largest entertainment cites in the U.S. with more than eight million people a year traveling to the city to see more than 100 ongoing entertainment shows.

Raytown, Mo. - Friends and family members met at the intersection of 67th and Blue Ridge Boulevard on Sunday morning, in hopes of finding answers in Harry Stone's murder Aaron Hyndes held a sign and handed out fliers with Harry Stone's picture on them.

RAYTOWN, Mo. - The shooting death of 60-year-old Harry Stone - murdered as he jogged down a Raytown street - has brought back grim memories for one family who lost a loved one in similar circumstances six years ago.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - As the city of Joplin prepares to mark the one-year anniversary of the tornado that killed 161 people and flattened a large section of the city, long-time residents in one south Kansas City neighborhood are preparing to mark a tragic anniversary of their own.

Nearly a week later, police in Raytown, Missouri, say they have no suspects, and no one has any idea why he was targeted.

When Major League Baseball visits the Kansas City area for the All-Star Game this summer, Raytown wants to make sure visitors stop by.

Attorney General Eric Holder should have been more careful about what to ask for.

On Sunday, Harry Stone, 60, was out for a jog in the Kansas City suburb of Raytown, when a dark-colored sedan slowed down beside him and someone inside the vehicle fired several shots, killing Stone.

A suburban Kansas City man was sentenced to 14 years and three months in federal prison for his role in robberies of a Brink's truck, a bank and a restaurant.

The father of a murdered Anchorage barista has been arrested for investigation of drunken driving and assault, accused of driving away from a strip club while intoxicated and threatening a doorman who tried to stop him.

Lyndsey d’Happart is one half of a creative culinary couple. She and Ozzie — her husband of eight months — enjoy connecting in the kitchen and with Kansas City’s community of local farmers.

Except he never made it for the service at St. Luke's United Methodist Church. Instead, the prayers became for him as church goers learned their assistant pastor's husband had been gunned down.

RAYTOWN, Mo. - The Metro Squad is investigating the murder of a man Sunday morning, who was out for a morning jog when he was gunned down in in what appears to be a random drive-by shooting.

Raytown police responding to a report of gunfire at the 6600 block of Hardy early this morning pursued a car that fled the location and after pulling it over, found a 20-year-old man seriously wounded inside.Police were called to the location shortly after midnight after neighbors reported hearing gunfire.

The 5th District Ladies Auxiliary held their annual convention May 5th at VFW Post 4242 in Raytown.

A Raytown man told police that two men forced their way into his home, assaulted him and ran off with various items, including a handgun.Police responded to the call of a home-invasion robbery about10:30 a.m. Thursday in the 8500 block of Greenwood Road.The victim told police that earlier in the morning, two men forced their way into his house.