Top Kansas City Area Local News Stories
Source: KMBC.com - Local News
A woman who lost her fiancé in the 2007 shootings at Ward Parkway Center says that Whitney Houston's music helped restore her faith in God.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:00:01 CST
Christian Payne's family finds him at home around 2 a.m.
Published: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 06:31:34 CST
One person was killed and one person was injured in a double shooting within blocks of each other on Friday evening.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:18:27 CST
A proposed law in Missouri would make it illegal for people to drive while distracted.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:25:51 CST
Community activist Alonzo Washington and some former managers at Dollar General stores make a public call to improve safety at the stores.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:38:56 CST
A pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle and seriously injured on Grand Street just outside the Sprint Center.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:13:27 CST
Missouri state investigators have been called in to help find whoever is responsible for mutilating a local family's pet Chihuahua.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:26:07 CST
Gov. Jay Nixon calls for Missouri lawmakers to pass new ethics legislation after the state's most recent law was thrown out this week by the Supreme Court because of how it was approved.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:50:39 CST
Two people and their dog safely escape a house fire in the 1300 block of Hunter Street in Blue Springs Friday.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:03:08 CST
Former Kansas City Schools Superintendent John Covington rewrote his top administrators' contracts to sweeten their severance before resigning and taking three of them with him to lead a new agency overseeing Michigan's poorest-performing schools, according to correspondence obtained The Kansas City Star.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:19:45 CST
The patriarch of a family accused in a western Missouri sex crimes case was ordered released on his own recognizance Friday, pending his trial on charges that he and four of his sons molested young relatives three decades ago.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:02:05 CST
Kansas City police are investigating a reported rape at a Crown Center hotel early Friday morning.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:38 CST
Kansas City police release surveillance pictures from a burglary at a Conoco convenience store in the 700 block of East 85th Street early Thursday morning.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:11:00 CST
Kansas City police are asking for the public's help in finding a 35-year-old missing man.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:24:26 CST
A central Missouri man was charged Friday in the fatal beating of a toddler whose injuries initially were blamed on a hit-and-run.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:41:38 CST
A northeast Kansas prosecutor says he won't file criminal charges over the state's destruction of abortion records, an issue that had overshadowed a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:15:49 CST
A 7-year-old boy who lost his legs in a riding lawnmower accident four years ago has learned to do just about everything any other first-grader would do.
Published: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:45:30 CST
Emotions and protests underscore a week of debate over new immigration laws for the state of Kansas.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:26:03 CST
Kansas lawmakers are thinking about allowing grocery stores to sell liquor, wine and stronger beer.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:19:33 CST
Kansas City's Liberty Memorial is undergoing a house-cleaning project.
Published: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:24:59 CST
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