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Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 4:59 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Adam “A.J.” Blackstock Jr.’s death is being investigated as a homicide, according to The Kansas City Star.
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Updated: Jan. 29, 2023 at 4:18 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
A Missouri mother who reported that her infant twins were stillborn has been convicted of manslaughter.
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Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 7:49 PM CST
|By Mark Poulose
Each of the 2023 homicides processed by KCMO police is from a firearm. Rosilyn Temple says enough is enough.
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Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:59 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A KCMO man has been charged, accused of causing the Raytown officer who was arresting him to fall down the stairs and break an ankle.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:37 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A Prairie Village, Kansas, man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for a fatal DWI crash that happened in Kansas City, Missouri, last summer.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 2:06 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating after a shooting left a man dead in the street on Friday afternoon.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 8:38 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department is investigating a homicide after a person was found dead inside a vehicle on Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 2:50 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A 21-year-old Leavenworth, Kansas, resident has been sentenced after the authorities found 11 bags of marijuana in his vehicle.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 1:53 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
The FBI is offering a $5,000 reward as they continue investigating a bank robbery that happened in February of 2019.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 8:47 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A 19-year-old has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting that happened outside an Independence apartment complex on Dec. 17, 2022.
10 Day Forecast
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 3:58 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
An Overland Park woman has been ordered to pay more than $31,000 in restitution after committing Medicaid fraud.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 2:04 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A pair from California has been federally charged with attempting to sell meth they brought with them in Kansas.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 1:25 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A bill to eliminate the statute of limitations for cases of childhood sexual abuse has been introduced in the Kansas Statehouse.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:57 PM CST
|By Matt Woods
The former owner of a Clayton construction company pleaded guilty this week to two counts of wire fraud for violating St. Louis’ Minority Business Enterprise participation requirements in order to qualify for a tax abatement.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 8:47 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
The Kansas Supreme Court will hear a case out of Shawnee County that involves a minor’s confession to sexually assaulting his stepsister.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:55 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A Lawrence man is behind bars after a 9-hour standoff ended in the early-morning hours following reports of a man threatening victims with a gun.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 4:23 PM CST
|By Greg Dailey
Officers do not believe any student in the school was a target.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 11:10 AM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
Bell’s last known address was near Gregory Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 9:36 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to selling the pill that was found to have been laced with fentanyl to a woman which caused her death.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 1:49 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
No injuries were reported, but the FBI asked that anyone with information contact Crime Stoppers through the TIPs hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 12:21 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
Police said 29-year-old Bryson Washington, the man found outside the funeral home, died from his injuries.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 11:24 AM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
Phillip Martin was charged with resisting arrest and first-degree vehicle tampering.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 5:23 PM CST
|By Nick Sloan
A 39-year-old Kansas City man has been charged in a fatal shooting that happened Thursday in South Kansas City.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 12:02 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
Police said there have been no arrests in the cast and any suspect involved is at large.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 8:26 AM CST
|By Lexi Letterman and Victoria Cassell
Three die in a central Topeka house fire early Friday morning.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 10:09 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
A man who taught at Gardner Edgerton High School has been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child in Johnson County, Kansas.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 9:14 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
The Buckner Police Department is trying to locate a suspect following a home invasion in which firearms and a pickup truck were stolen.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 8:15 PM CST
|By David Pinter and Zoe Brown
A man has been taken into custody following a police pursuit on Thursday evening that started in KCMO and ended in Independence.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:36 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown and Gabe Swartz
A 21-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, has been charged in connection with a mass shooting that happened in Westport last summer.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:35 PM CST
|By Colin Baillie
Just eight days after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation to ban assault weapons, the new law faces legal challenges at both the state and federal level.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 2:54 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors say Chase Neill, 32, from Lawrence in northeastern Kansas, fixated on LaTurner before leaving an after-hours voicemail with the congressman’s Topeka office that included, “I will kill you.”
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 1:20 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown and David Pinter
The KCPD is investigating a homicide that happened in the Ruskin Heights neighborhood on Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 1:12 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
One person was taken into custody following a standoff in Mission, Kansas, on Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 9:35 AM CST
|By Melanie Johnson
According to Stray Rescue of St. Louis, the agency’s bottom cages are full of dogs recovering from gunshot wounds.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 3:17 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
Leslie L. Williams is wanted on a parole violation warrant out of Missouri for failing to register as a sex offender. He's known to be armed and should be considered dangerous.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 2:35 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A jury has found a man guilty of murder following a shooting at a public library in Overland Park nearly three years ago.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 1:46 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
The man who had been convicted of his girlfriend’s 2018 murder was found dead in his Hutchinson prison cell.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 11:00 AM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
The police department was able to return the trophy to Dawson’s widow, Linda, who “was overjoyed to have it back in her possession.”
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 8:10 AM CST
|By The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 2.5 years, while Tao’s attorneys are asking U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson to sentence him to time served.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 7:55 PM CST
|By Nathan Vickers
A local daycare has had to close because of theft and vandalism damage, leaving families to quickly find other child care.
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. 17, 2023 at 6:57 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened outside an apartment building on Tuesday evening.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 4:57 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
A man has pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges, admitting to fatally shooting a woman inside a residence in Greenwood, Missouri, in 2019.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 3:25 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
The Blue Springs Police Department is asking residents to share their surveillance video following a home invasion earlier this week.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 1:21 PM CST
|By Dan Greenwald
The former police chief of Louisiana, Mo. is facing murder charges in connection with a drug overdose that left a man dead
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 1:18 PM CST
|By Zoe Brown
Kansas City, Missouri, police are trying to identify a suspect following a shooting that happened on a KCATA bus in late December.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 12:57 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
On Dec. 12, 2020, someone shot and killed a man 12 days before his 30th birthday in Kansas City, Kansas. But questions remain unanswered.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 12:31 PM CST
|By Liam Garrity
The victim’s disappearance led to a statewide Endangered Person Advisory.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 10:17 PM CST
|By Sharon Chen
He told his mother he was stopping for cigarettes, and that was the very last time Valerie Niehouse spoke to her son.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 8:36 PM CST
|By KCTV5 Staff
The Overland Park Police Department is looking into “vandalism” at Blue Valley High’s football stadium and press box.