Missouri woman injured after SUV rear-ends truck

CASS COUNTY—A Missouri man died in an accident just after 8:30p.m. Saturday in Cass County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Yamaha ATV driven by Justin B. Savage, 39, Greenwood, was northbound on a private road at 1204 163rd in Pleasant Hill. The ATV began to skid,...

KANSAS CITY – A Kansas City-area man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identities of Johnson County, Kansas, government employees to make fraudulent purchases, according to the United State's Attorney. Michael B. Becher, 40, Raytown, Mo. pleaded guilty before...

CARTER COUNTY —A Missouri teen died in an accident just before 4:30p.m. Thursday in Carter County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Toyota Highlander driven by a 16-year-old from Ellsinore was northbound on County Road 325 six miles west of Ellsinore. The driver lost control of the...

DAVIESS COUNTY—One person was injured in an accident just before 8p.m. Friday in Daviess County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2020 Nissan Altima driven by Jacqueline Ayers, 33, Crawford, AR., was southbound on Interstate 35 just north of the Route B exit. The car struck a deer...

HUTCHINSON— Amtrak’s Southwest Chief will return to full service Monday. The train service was reduced to five days per week due to staffing shortages caused by the pandemic. “We still have a lot of hiring to do but we’re able to have enough hiring and enough cars back...

JACKSON COUNTY —A Kansas City man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Andreone T. Hall at a gas station at 33rd and Linwood in Kansas City, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Jerpree Williams, 20, faces Murder 2nd Degree, Unlawful Use of a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City officials have approved a new ordinance that clarifies when people may witness or record police officers' actions without being arrested. The Kansas City Council on Thursday approved the ordinance to settle a federal lawsuit filed by three women who were arrested during racial injustice protests in the city in 2020.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor says he wants to try four 14-year-olds as adults in the shooting death of a Missouri man. They are among six teenagers charged in juvenile court with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Marco Cardino, of Smithville, Missouri. The two other...

Two men exchanged gunfire at the intersection of 16th and Lafayette Streets, but no one was wounded in the shooting. St. Joseph police report officers responded to the area shortly before 11 o’clock Thursday night. Police say a driver fired a couple of shots at a man walking on a sidewalk, who returned fire.

CLAY COUNTY—A Missouri man died in an accident just before 5:30p.m. Tuesday in Clay County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2013 Honda motorcycle driven by Samuel M. Reffett, 21, Kansas City, was northbound on U.S. 169 just north of Highway DD. The motorcycle struck a 2002 Chevy...

ATCHISON COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a Kansas man wanted on multiple charges in Missouri. On Wednesday, police arrested 25-year-old Alexzander S. Green of Atchison, on a Boone County Missouri warrant, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson. He is being held without bond for alleged terroristic threat, felony harassment...

KANSAS CITY (AP) —In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 “code blue” incidents — an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one of them a year, according to a police investigator.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state of Kansas must pay former pizza executive Gene Bicknell more than $63 million to settle a long-running dispute over his tax bill. The court ruled on Friday that Bicknell was a Florida resident in 2005 and 2006 when he sold NPC International, which owned more than 800 Pizza Hut locations around the world.

ANDREW COUNTY —Two people were injured in an accident just before 5:30p.m. Tuesday in Andrew County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Chevy Aveo driven by Logan R. Hughes, 21, Rosendale, was southbound on County Road 179 at County Road 177. The driver failed to yield to...

DENVER (AP) — U.S. government lawyers asked the appeals court overseeing four western and two midwestern states to recognize that the First Amendment guarantee of free speech gives people the right to film police as they do their work in public — a decision that would allow officers to be sued if they interfere with bystanders trying to record them.

CLINTON COUNTY –Two people were injured in an accident just after 10:p.m. Tuesday in Clinton County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2011 Chevy Silverado driven by Dakota T. Davis, 27, St. Joseph, was northbound on Interstate 35 just south of Route 116. The driver began to overtake...

The dire state of water in western Kansas is not in dispute. The aquifer Kansans out west rely on to irrigate crops and provide drinking water dropped by a foot in 2021. “If you look at charts as to where it was … when they started irrigating and now, it’s alarming,” said the House Water Committee chairman, Rep. Ron Highland, R-Wamego.

Washington, D.C.– U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and five Kansas Sheriffs will travel to the Southern Border on Thursday for briefings, tours, and meetings with border patrol officials, within DHS and the state of Texas, according to a statement from the Senator's office. The trip comes amid the pending expiration...

A new scam popping up in Buchanan County has the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department advising everyone to be cautious. Sheriff Bill Puett says the latest scam he has become aware of is people using local officials' names to threaten people saying they haven't shown up for jury duty at the federal court in Kansas City.

TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health reported 1900 new coronavirus cases in Kansas from Friday, May 13, to Wednesday May 18, for a total of 782,802 cases. The state reported 82 additional COVID-19 deaths in the past week for a total of 8,802. Kansas is providing fewer updates...