Clay County News

Nurses, physicians and law enforcement professionals from across the na-tion and around the world met this month to sharpen their skills in forensics.

St. Louis -- The Missouri Department of Transporation has major construction projects planned for this summer despite its construction budget being about half of what it was a year ago.

Mr. Preston, our ghost in residence at the Liberty Tribune office, has been particularly active lately, but I'm convinced that he was more of a guardian angel than ghost on a recent trip I took with a friend to Louisiana.

After a jury acquitted her of assault, Kimberly Whyley was eager to get back to work as a police officer for the Village of Oakview.

The proposed multi-phased Shoal Creek Town Center took another step forward May 9 when the Kansas City Tax Increment Financing Commission voted 7-3-1 to approve tax abatements for the $140 million project.

A lawyer representing a Catholic priest charged with producing child pornography today asked a Kansas City federal judge to delay the trial until August.If granted, the continuance would put trial dates for the Rev.

A 49-year-old Liberty man has been charged by the Clay County prosecutor's office with two counts of possession of child pornography.

This was the maximum sentenced that the judge could give under the plea deal struck with prosecutors.

Colby A. Tester, 17, of Holt and Chance D. Brooks, 17, of Kearney both pleaded not guilty in their arraignment hearings Monday, May 7, in Clay County Circuit Court.

CLAY COUNTY, Mo. - A special team of detectives withA the western Missouri Cyber Crime Task Force, Liberty Police and Clay County Sheriff's Deputies arrestedA a man at his home in the 500 block of White Oak Lane in Liberty.

Shoal Creek Town Center, a major retail development proposed for the Northland at 152 Highway and Shoal Creek Parkway, should be considered by the Kansas City Council next month after its tax incentive request was endorsed Wednesday by a development agency.The developers of the 480-acre phased development, which would include 800,000 square feet of ... (more)

Richard Pacheco made his first appearance Tuesday in Wyandotte County, KS, Court, but he remains chief of police in the Clay County, MO, town.

Outstanding field of bearded wheat by Community of Christ church north of Smithville.

A tax increment financing plan for a proposed $142.5 million project in Clay County will be heard publicly for the first time on Wednesday.

As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prepares to dedicate a new temple tomorrow in Kansas City, we are learning the Church has made a purchase of significant historical sites related to the faith, in Missouri and Ohio.

A Clay County jury acquitted an Oakview police officer this week of assaulting a 90-year-old man during a traffic stop in 2009.The officer, Kimberly A. Whyley, 41, had been charged with third degree assault, a misdemeanor.

Clay County leaders viewed a wide range of developments at the 2012 State of the City Luncheon on April 19.