CRIME & SAFETY
Homicide: Police ID Kan. man found dead in parking lot of business
WYANDOTTE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities investigating a homicide in Kansas City, Kansas have identified the victim as 22-year-old Gerald Jones, II, Kansas City, Kansas. Just before 7:30 p.m. Monday, police were dispatched to a shooting in the 6000 block of Leavenworth Road, according to a media release. First responders...
Kansas man hospitalized after rear-end crash
LIVINGSTON COUNTY—One person was injured in an accident just before 6:30p.m. Wednesday in Livingston County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Chevy Malibu driven by Terrance G. Givens, 34, Kansas City, Kansas, was westbound on U.S. 36 one mile west of Mooresville. The car rear-ended a 2022 Ford F750 driven by Adam E. Ponsor, 37, Waukee, Iowa.
One injured Thursday when dump truck with bed raised hits sign in Wyandotte County
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - A man was injured early Thursday when a dump truck with its bed raised struck an overhead sign on Interstate 435 in Wyandotte County, authorities said. The incident was reported at 12:36 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 435, just north of Leavenworth Road in Kansas City,...
Rossville man injured Thursday in crash on rain-slickened I-70 in Wyandotte County
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - A man was taken to an area hospital Thursday after the semitrailer he was driving crashed on a rain-slickened highway in Wyandotte County, authorities said. The crash was reported at 2:52 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 70 just west of the 78th Street exit. in Kansas...
Sheriff’s office now looking at rural Kearney for training center site
CLAY COUNTY – After hearing hours of complaints and pleas from a packed crowd of concerned residents last year, Clay County Sheriff Will Akin went back to the drawing board for his office’s plan to build a law enforcement resource and training facility that includes a firing range. He unveiled his office’s new plan, including the center’s new rural Kearney site off Northeast 116th Street, to residents last week.
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