Emily Rittman
Reporter
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Emily joined KCTV5 in July 2012. She is a Kansas City metro native who grew up in Lee's Summit and Parkville.
She’s covered breaking news and severe weather in Jefferson City, Springfield and Kansas City, Mo.
She's a die-hard Chiefs fan and a loyal Royals and Sporting KC fan who was thrilled to cover the Royals World Series win and the Chiefs Super Bowl championship.
In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, kayaking, bicycling, watching movies and documentaries as well as attending concerts. Her pups Punch and Piper keep her thoroughly entertained.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Emily Rittman
Leavenworth police are investigating the death of a high school student after a fight following a pickup basketball game.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 9:12 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman and Zoe Brown
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas hosted a roundtable discussion today with the U.S. Marshals Service deputy director and local teens to talk about violent crime impacting young people who live here.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 4:22 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Her dismembered body was discovered in February 2021 in several locations near Cameron Road and Easley Road in Clay County, Missouri.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 6:15 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
For the first time in Missouri, anyone 21 or older with a valid I.D. could buy marijuana for recreational adult use at dispensaries that received their recreational marijuana licenses Friday.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 8:01 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
KCMO City Council members formally approved spending $750,000 for a possible Super Bowl parade that could be bigger and better than the 2020 party.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 4:12 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff and Emily Rittman
A 9-year-old girl who was reported missing on Wednesday morning has been found safe.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 4:04 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman and Greg Dailey
The long-anticipated date for the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport has been set.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:42 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Two people died after a car flipped several times during rush hour Thursday morning near U.S. 69 Highway and 103rd Street.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:45 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
City council members approved the fifth plan for the $268 million Mission Gateway Project on Wednesday night.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 7:20 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A mother is on a mission to get justice for her son six years after searchers discovered his body in a creek bed near Swope Park.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 3:46 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The Ray County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a woman’s death as a homicide after her skeletal remains were discovered by a mushroom hunter near Richmond in Ray County on April 27 of last year.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2023 at 12:03 AM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Lenexa police are investigating a deadly shooting that was discovered after the victim crashed into a light pole.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 10:16 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Friends of two innocent bystanders who were hit and killed by a carjacking suspect fleeing from police at 77 mph held a vigil for them on Thursday night.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 6:31 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A pastor is speaking out, hoping to help seniors who live in an apartment building that has a bedbug infestation.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 1:29 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The Missouri Charter Public School Commission placed Hogan Preparatory Academy on probation for low test scores and staffing concerns.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 1:25 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman, Zoe Brown and David Pinter
Firefighters in Raytown were battling a blaze at an apartment complex for seniors on Monday afternoon. Sadly, one person has died.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 6:40 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
On Thursday, Issac Fisher received consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2018 shooting spree that killed three people and injured a 4-year-old child.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 6:21 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A grieving mother is hopeful this year will be the year her fiancé's killer is arrested and charged.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 6:06 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
“They can obtain one of these gun locks for free. One of these could represent somebody’s life that, otherwise, could be cut short by accidental gunfire.”
Updated: Jan. 2, 2023 at 6:07 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Nearly three months after an extensive investigation began into a rape and kidnapping, Rose Crowley is speaking about the morning she helped a woman on her granddaughter’s front porch.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 7:41 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The Cass County Sheriff’s Office Disaster Emergency Response Team, Criminal Apprehension Units and animal control officers from Harrisonville and Raymore removed 30 dogs from dangerously cold temperatures yesterday.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 11:56 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The legalization of recreational marijuana in Missouri is causing many drug-sniffing police dogs to retire early or shift to other duties. It is now legal to possess 3 ounces or less of marijuana in Missouri.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 7:30 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Three KCPD canines that were originally trained to detect marijuana and other illegal drugs will no longer be used for narcotics searches only patrol duties following the change in Missouri marijuana laws.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 6:29 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff and Emily Rittman
One person has died after a minivan went down an embankment and crashed into icy Brush Creek near Paseo and Martin Luther King Boulevards.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2022 at 7:43 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A father and daughter managed to get out safely as flames spread through the family’s home just days before Christmas near 128th Street and Winchester Avenue in Grandview.
Updated: Dec. 15, 2022 at 6:27 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves is making history alongside Kansas City Fire Chief Donna Lake, as women lead both the city’s fire and police departments.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 7:14 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Following a crackdown on illegal car sideshows in Kansas City, Missouri, the mayor and president of the police board will meet to hear a proposal requesting a legal location for car sideshows.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
After an approximately two-hour, closed-door meeting Tuesday, members of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners did not select one of three finalists.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 6:06 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
“He was just standing on his porch after work,” his mother said. “He had worked overtime.”
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Michael Okal is charged in Jackson County with four counts of invasion of privacy and one count of sexual abuse.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2022 at 5:40 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is proposing a new ordinance to offer an option for witnesses or victims of violent crimes to receive financial assistance relocating through the creation of a Victim-Witness Relocation Fund in Kansas City.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 5:45 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Hours after ATF’s director visited KCMO for a roundtable discussion Tuesday, two additional homicides increased this year’s total to 162.
Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:18 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating after someone found a 75-year-old grandfather injured on the ground near 55th and Parkview.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 6:55 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
On Monday night, a vigil was held to remember a 16-year-old killed in a double homicide near 38th and Garfield.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 6:55 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A courtroom full of relatives held onto photos of four-year-old LeGend Taliferro as they waited Friday to hear his killer enter a guilty plea. The plea hearing was held nearly two and a half years after prosecutors say 24-year-old Ryson B. Ellis shot into an apartment as LeGend slept.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Ryan L. Weeks was last seen in February at a gas station near Missouri Highway 152 and North Brighton Avenue.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 6:19 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Police want to remind community members of a free option to store guns safely inside homes where children live.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 6:24 AM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A father is struggling to cope after his 4-year-old son died in an apparent accidental shooting Monday inside of a Kansas City, Kansas, home.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 6:01 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Kansas City, Missouri, is on pace to record its second highest number of homicides in a single year. This comes following a double homicide Sunday.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 1:55 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman and KCTV5 Staff
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is attempting to determine what instigated a shooting that resulted in the death of a man on this Thanksgiving morning.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2022 at 7:33 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The U.S. Men’s National Team watch party hosted by Sporting Kansas City kicked off around 10:30 a.m. Friday at the KC Live! Block in the Power & Light District.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 5:16 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
In just the first 22 days of November, nearly 800 pets have come into KC Pet Project. They are caring for approximately 1,000 animals across all of their locations.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 7:43 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
“We have spent millions of dollars in infrastructure in this city to put in bike lanes, and these selfish actors are just driving right through it and creating such a dangerous environment for people that want to use the streets and the sidewalks for what they’re supposed to be used for."
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Kansas City police say the city is on track to record more than 2,000 catalytic converter thefts this year. That’s compared to 1,400 catalytic converters reported stolen last year.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 4:47 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
After writing 33 citations at an illegal car sideshow on Sunday, Kansas City police released a PSA to announce they are stepping up enforcement against dangerous car stunts on busy streets.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 6:28 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft says he is proposing the rule to protect kids from inappropriate materials at state-funded libraries. Opponents say the rule is a divisive infringement on the professional judgement of librarians.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman and KCTV5 Staff
Two former Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department officers have pleaded guilty to felony assault, admitting to using excessive force while arresting a Black transgender woman in 2019.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2022 at 3:52 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has charged an Independence man and woman after concerned community members contacted Independence police to report a video showing a child’s beating.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 5:31 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
A longtime Lawrence bar and restaurant owner announced Johnny’s Tavern North would close until changes were made to improve safety near a campsite for people who are without housing.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 8:07 PM CST
|By Emily Rittman
“You will watch him and you’re like, ‘Did that man just throw the ball sideways, running backwards, singing Christmas carols?’ That’s 50 yards and jingle bells at the same time! Yeah, I’m putting him in my front yard!”
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