Category — Kansas City, Missouri

Two men have been charged with allegedly using a ski mask and a shotgun to rob a Lee’s Summit convenience store. Robert N. McGinley was charged with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a weapon. His bond was set at $150,000 cash only.

A Northeast area convenience store employee shot a suspected shoplifter Wednesday night, according to Kansas City police. The injuries are not considered life-threatening.

The victim of a hit and run traffic incident Wednesday in the Waldo area died this morning, Kansas City police said. Police said that 56-year-old Paul Allegri was struck by a vehicle about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at 77th Terrace and Main Street.

Kansas City Community Gardens was not recommended for this year’s community development block grant funding, but it may still be funded in the general Kansas City budget. The City Council’s Housing Committee today endorsed a plan to allocate about $8.8 million in block grant funds to a host of housing and social service agencies. But the community garden program was not on the list, which goes …

Kansas City police now have received 733 tips and dedicated 21 detectives plus six sergeants to catching the so-called Waldo rapist. The investigation has grown so large that it’s been moved out of the sex crimes unit at police headquarters and into the city’s Emergency Operations Center, police Chief Jim Corwin announced today.

Wyandotte County prosecutors today charged two people related to a high-speed police chase of a stolen Jeep on Monday. Jeffrey M. Haywood, 39, of Independence, is charged with felony eluding police, felony theft, misdemeanor theft and possessing marijuana.

Police identified the man found dead with apparent gunshot wounds inside a Riverside apartment as Hassan Abbas, 32. Abbas, who was from the Sudan, was a student at Metropolitan Community College–Maple Woods, according to police.

A federal judge in Kansas today sentenced a former church music director to more than 12 years for setting fire to a Leavenworth church. Carva Lee White, 46, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and arson in an attempt to commit mail fraud.

Kansas City police are seeking the public’s help to locate Donald L. Dudley. He was last seen Monday walking south in the 6900 block of Jackson Street. His family has not seen or heard from him since, and relatives are concerned for his safety.

A split Kansas City school board tonight approved a historic plan to close 26 schools after turning back an effort to take several buildings off the list.. By a vote of 5-4, the board ushered in Superintendent John Covington’s Right Sizing Plan.

Superintendent John Covington’s school closing plan was approved tonight by the Kansas City school board CLOSURES

A man was critically injured tonight in Kansas City when a woman he was arguing with ran over him with her Jeep Wrangler and then left the scene. Around 7 p.m., a witness watched as a 49-year-old woman backed out of a driveway just west of 77th Terrace and Main Street in Kansas City.

A federal indictment unsealed today charged four men and two companies with running an illegal gambling business that attracted about $3.6 million in bets over three years.

Police arrested two men early this morning after they allegedly used a ski mask and shotgun to rob a Lee’s Summit convenience store. Police received a report of an armed robbery about 5:25 a.m. at the Temp Store, 1101 N.E. Rice Road in Lee’s Summit.

High school students in the North Kansas City School District won’t be changing their daily schedule – at least for now. School board members decided Tuesday night to follow a district recommendation to keep block scheduling at the high schools for the 2010-2011 school year instead of adopting a traditional seven-period day schedule.

A Johnson County judge has sentenced an Independence man to 25 years in a complex kidnapping and rape case that unfolded on both sides of the state line. Joshua Maudlin, 34, pleaded guilty previously to the kidnap, sodomy and rape of a woman when he took her from Overland Park to Independence.

Flooding along the Platte River has forced transportation officials to close Missouri Route E in rural Platte County west of Ridgley. Route E is closed between Missouri Route DD and Missouri Route B, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Web site.

Jim McNair is resigning as president and CEO of the American Royal Association, the Royal’s board of directors announced today. McNair will continue in his current position until the Royal names a new CEO.

A Kansas City woman has been accused of burning her mentally disabled son with an iron. Helen E. Settles, 41, has been charged in Jackson County Circuit Court with one count of first-degree domestic assault that caused serious physical injury and one count of armed criminal action, both felonies.

Kansas City launched its public push this morning become a Google community. The search engine giant has said it will underwrite the ultra-high speed Internet wiring of a handful of cities of varying sizes across the country, and a collection of city officials said at a downtown press conference that Kansas City will make its pitch to Google.

User fees for auto and boat shows and other convention center events would increase, under an ordinance endorsed today by a Kansas City council committee. The Finance and Audit Committee supported increasing the fees at Bartle Hall and Municipal Auditorium from $1 to $1.50 on May 1, which would be the first increase since 1996. The measure, which allows future increases pegged to cost of living …

A Kansas City man is facing charges after allegedly sexually assaulting his fianceé’s friend as she slept on a couch at the couple’s house. The incident happened about 4:40 a.m. Tuesday in the 3900 block of Wabash Avenue.

Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser announced today that the Aim4Peace violence prevention program will receive $300,000 in funding from the Police Department. Funkhouser also said at a press conference that the program would receive an additional $300,000 from the health levy, but he later retracted that statement.

Raymond A. Lapietra was drunk, high and driving with a suspended license for the seventh time when he caused the crash that killed a 25-year-old Adrian woman, court documents filed today allege. Lapietra, 26, of Blue Springs is charged in Jackson County Circuit Court with involuntary vehicular manslaughter and endangering a child while intoxicated.

Jean Carnahan, former U.S. senator from Missouri, will receive the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award on May 6. The widow of former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan will accept the award during a luncheon at the Muehlebach Tower of the Kansas City Marriott Downtown.

A wreck that shut down U.S. 71 near Belton this afternoon started when a semi lost control and struck three vehicles. The southbound semi carried one of the vehicles across the highway median into steel barriers of the northbound lanes, according to Belton Police.

Kansas City police are looking for a 17-year-old girl accused of driving drunk and causing a wreck that killed another teen and a baby boy. Victoria K. Johnson of Kansas City is charged with involuntary vehicular manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and operating a vehicle without a license.

Burglars broke into both Animal Haven shelters in Merriam on Monday night or Tuesday morning and took money, police said. Officials at the nonprofit shelter said they are still assessing damages to its main location at 9800 W. 67th St. and to its Lost Pet Center across the street.

Thanks to a friend’s contribution, the reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever killed Henry Scott IV now stands at $2,000. Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers announced the $1,000 reward increase today.

A 77-year-old Kearney man was seriously injured Monday afternoon after he got out of his truck at a rock quarry and it rolled backwards striking him. The incident occurred about 1:50 p.m. on private property near Southeast 248th Street and Southeast Kincaid Road, about two miles east of Plattsburg, Mo., according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.