Latest Kansas City News
RSS-
Google $5 million to fight child porn
Google is working to get rid of online child pornography. The tech giant is planning to spend $5 million to wipe pictures of child sexual abuse from the web. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says its tip line received more than 17 million images and videos of suspected child abuse in 2011. According to the FBI, any crime that involves the exploitation of children is in the ...
-
Mission makes plans to fix huge sinkhole
Viewer images of a tractor trailer that got stuck in a sinkhole that formed on Saturday afternoon after a big storm brought flooding rains to the metro. The sinkhole was located in a parking lot in Mission, ...
-
Deputies seek missing Andrew County teen
Investigators said Tristan Washington was reported missing from his home about 6 a.m. Monday. They said he may be heading to Texas or to his father's home in Utah. Deputies said there's no sign of foul play, but they would like to locate the teen. He was last seen wearing a dark blue Nike tank top and dark blue basketball shorts. Anyone with information about him should call the Andrew ...
More Kansas City News
RSS-
U.S. Russia still dont agree on Syria
But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern ...
-
Statue missing from Independence museum
A historic statue is missing from the National Trails Museum in Independence. Museum employees noticed "The Pioneer Woman" was missing Monday morning. They said the statue was ripped from its granite base. The statue, located at the back of the museum, was commissioned by community leaders. The city is offering a $5,000 reward for the statue's ...
-
Kobach Ruling wont block KS voter law
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the state's proof-of-citizenship requirement for new voters can still be enforced after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a similar Arizona law. Kobach says the Kansas law differs enough from Arizona's version that the high court's Monday decision doesn't apply to Kansas. County election officials in Kansas said ...
-
Downed power line reported hours before mans electrocution
One of the organizers for a professional disc golf tournament said he called to report a downed power line in Rosedale Park on Saturday, nearly 12 hours before another man became tangled in the live wire and ...
-
Kansas man faces death penalty in Cole Camp murders
A southeast Kansas man could face the death penalty after being convicted of murdering three of his relatives at their home in west-central ...
-
2013 Chiefs Training Camp Schedule Released
The Kansas City Chiefs announced on Monday dates for 2013 Chiefs Training Camp presented by Mosaic Life Care (www.mymosaiclifecare.org) at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Mo. All times and dates are subject to change. Training camp will officially kick off on Friday, July 26 with a 3:30 p.m. practice and conclude with the club's final practice on Aug. 14 at 8:15 a.m. ...
-
Hunting proposal for Kansas wildlife refuge raises concern about whooping cranes
Bill Atkinson was found, abandoned, in a Kansas City, Kan., phone booth, less than a day old and covered in nothing but a blanket. Atkinson became interested in finding his biological family after he started one of his own. But a decade-long search has so far led only to dead ...
-
Farm to Fork in Metro Kansas City
What could be more enticing that treating your taste buds to locally raised and prepared foods? Kansas City communities have wholeheartedly embraced this delicious, healthy trend. Here's some places ...
-
Downtown KC office buildings losing tenants
The massive makeover of the greater downtown Kansas City over the past decade was intended in part to draw businesses, but census figures show the area has lost nearly 20 percent of its private employees over the last ...
-
Battle shapes up for Mo. House Speakers post
Caleb Jones, of California, Mo., said Monday he is running for House speaker. That top leadership post also is being sought by current House Majority Leader John Diehl, of St. Louis County. Republicans now hold a veto-proof majority in the House. Current House Speaker Tim Jones is barred by term limits from seeking re-election in November 2014 to the House. Caleb Jones says there has been too ...
-
Kansas counties await word on tornado relief
Officials with northeast Kansas counties damaged by tornadoes and flooding in May are waiting to hear if the region will be eligible for disaster ...
-
Conservationists worry about hunting plan at Kan. preserve
Conservationists are raising concerns that a proposal to expand hunting at the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge could endanger whooping cranes that migrate through the south-central Kansas ...
-
Ottawa eatery under immigration investigation
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the El Mezcal Mexican restaurant in Ottawa was closed Friday amid an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Shawn Neudauer, a spokesman for Homeland Security Investigations, confirmed that special agents from Homeland Security conducted an operation at the restaurant Friday, ...
-
Off-duty Mo. firefighter rescues man from river
The driver of a car that plunged into the River des Peres in south St. Louis is expected to survive after being saved by an off-duty ...
-
Man flees on bicycle after Mo. bank robbery
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the robbery happened Monday morning at a Commerce Bank branch on Grand Boulevard. The suspect did not display a weapon but got away with an undisclosed amount of money. He was seen soon after the robbery riding his bicycle west toward Tower Grove ...
-
Kansas church finds stash of unusual Bibles
A minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ashland says she was sorting through some boxes at the church when she found one filled with some unusual Bibles. The 15 Bibles found by Minister Marsha Granberry were printed in several languages including Eskimo, Slavic, Cherokee, Russian, Chinese and Yiddish. Most of the Bibles were printed in the 1920s and 1930s, except the Cherokee version, which ...
-
Royals Minor League report June 16
Omaha Storm Chasers (30-37) Omaha 3, Iowa 1 WP: Yordano Ventura (1-1) SV: Francisley Bueno (1) HR: Brett Hayes (7) Ventura earned his first Triple-A win as Omaha snapped a three-game skid on Sunday. Ventura worked five innings, allowing three hits and a walk, with the lone run coming on a homer in the first. Hayes tied the game at 1-1 with a home run in the third off of Guillermo Moscoso, ...
-
Downtown KC missing private employers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The multi-billion dollar makeover of the greater downtown Kansas City area over the past decade was intended in part to draw businesses, but census figures show the area has lost nearly 20 percent of its private employees in that ...
-
Thieves hit 15 cars at gated Plaza condo
KANSAS CITY Mo. - Kansas City police are looking for the thieves who broke into several cars at a Plaza condominium. Police said 15 cars inside the gated Bella Condominium Community, off 46th and Jarboe streets, were hit early Monday morning. The property manager said he believes someone pried open the gate that leads into the parking lot, then used a crowbar to smash car windows sometime ...
-
FBI Man says NJ-bound flight poisoned
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - FBI agents are going to meet an incoming flight at a New Jersey airport after reports that a passenger claimed that everyone aboard had been poisoned. United Airlines Flight 116 from Hong Kong is scheduled to land at 2 p.m. Eastern on Monday at Newark Liberty Airport, outside New York City. An FBI spokesman says there is no indication that any passengers had actually been ...
-
Poll Obama approval falls amid controversies
President Barack Obama's approval rating dropped 8 percentage points over the past month, to 45 percent, the president's lowest rating in more than a year and a half, according to a new national ...
-
Pitcher struck by Eric Hosmer line drive recovering from concussion
Tampa Bay Ray Alex Cobbtold Twitter followers that he woke up this morning with only a "minor headache." Cobb suffered a concussion Saturday night. The incident during Saturday's game between the Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay refueled a debate over head protection for major league pitchers on the mound. Cobb, who had rejoined the team earlier this week following the death of ...
Kansas City Digest
-
Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more
News from around our Network
