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Man from St. Joe sentenced in shooting witnessed by police on patrol
KANSAS CITY —A 41-year-0ld St. Joseph man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the non-fatal shooting of another man, a shooting in Kansas City that was observed by a passing police officer, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Matthew Whitmill, during his trial earlier...
Charges dropped: Man accused of fatally shooting woman at KC area mall
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges against a man who was accused of fatally shooting a pregnant woman after she went to a suburban Kansas City mall to shop for baby clothes. Michael Mansur, a spokesperson for the Jackson County prosecutor’s office, said Monday that not enough...
2 found dead after home explosion in Clay County
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Two Kansas City men charged in connection to multiple armed robberies
According to court records, KCPD responded to a robbery of a chain drug store on August 16. A clerk at the drug store claimed that a man, later identified as McGill, pointed a handgun at her and demanded the money from the register.
City of Grandview, business owners prepare as final stretch of Main Street extension project breaks ground
— The city of Grandview is entering the final stage of its Main Street extension project. No, the city isn’t physically extending Main Street another mile. Instead, it's extending the infrastructure and beautification improvements for a few more blocks. From Main and 7th to 3rd streets, the city is...
Prosecutor’s office: Charges dropped against man accused of Independence Center shooting
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - Charges against a man accused of shooting a pregnant woman at the Independence Center in November have been dropped. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office told KCTV that charges were dismissed after new evidence was introduced. “New evidence showed we couldn’t prove our case,” a spokesperson...
County readies re-vote on tax hike, this time just for Chiefs stadium, to see if voters hate that any less
It looks like Jackson County, Missouri is going to go ahead and follow up the resounding April defeat of a referendum on raising sales taxes to fund new Kansas City Chiefs and Royals stadiums by holding a redo of the vote, only this time just for the Chiefs. The new ballot measure would raise the county’s sales tax by 0.25% for 20 years instead of 0.375% for 40 years, and would leave out the baseball team — presumably because Royals owner John Sherman’s stated desire to build a new $2 billion stadium on top of an existing neighborhood with no guarantees of any aid for residents and businesses that would have been displaced was seen as too great a liability.
No, we don’t want Andrew Bailey handling abortion cases in place of local prosecutors
While busy with his own campaign for Missouri attorney general, Republican Andrew Bailey also loomed large in the primary race for prosecutor of the state’s second largest county. He popped up repeatedly in Jackson County in forums and interviews, sometimes by name and sometimes not, but always as a menacing presence. After a lively and […]
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