Category — Kansas City, Missouri

Lenexa police have charged a man in connection with a couple of car break-ins at an indoor Johnson County soccer complex.

The Route A bridge that spans the Fishing River just north of Liberty will be closed from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., on Thursday for emergency repairs, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. During this closure, traffic can use Missouri 92 and Interstate 35 to detour around the bridge.

Kansas City police have identified the convenience store clerk killed in a robbery early today as Gurpreet Singh, 35, of Kansas City. The deadly holdup was recorded on the surveillance camera at the 7-Eleven at 8501 E. Bannister Road.

An Overland Park man pleaded guilty today to a fraud scheme that forced several low-income homeowners into bankruptcy. Federal prosecutors in Kansas City said that Harris Poulikidis pleaded guilty to causing someone to cross state lines as part of the scheme.

Two Kansas City men who were part of a drug ring were sentenced today in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. Secundino Aria-Garcia, 30, was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison. Sergio Mosqueda-Hernandez, 35, was sentenced to 121 months.

Winners in Kansas City’s St. Patrick’s Day parade: GRAND PRIZE

Family members this afternoon confirmed the victims of a fatal car wreck early Tuesday morning as Matt Honea and Andrew Riddell of Olathe. Riddell’s father, Daniel, said he knows his son was in the car involved in the crash.

The cold and the damp did not deter an enthusiastic crowd from lining Broadway today for the Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day parade. “All the way down there were kids on the curb and families,” said Kevin Bundy, a parade co-chairman. “I don’t think the rain kept anyone away. If you got a little mist on you, that’s just the luck of the Irish.”

A 25-year-old man died early today after someone shot him repeatedly with a rifle near 57th Street and Highland Avenue. Police did not release the name of the victim, who died at a hospital.

A woman reported missing nearly a week has been found in California. Victoria E. Irons, 39, was reported missing after she was last seen March 10 in the area of 24th and Charlotte streets. Her family was concerned for her safety because she has mental issues.

A former air traffic controller at Whiteman Air Force Base pleaded guilty today to attempted online distribution of child pornography. Michael A. Worrick, 27, who was in the Air Force at the time the crime was discovered in 2008, entered the plea at the federal courthouse in Kansas City. He faces a sentence of five to 20 years.

Kansas City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade begins at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Linwood Boulevard and Broadway. The 1.3-mile route proceeds south on Broadway to 43rd Street.

A 20-year-old man died Monday night after he jumped out of a seventh-floor apartment window in the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. The man’s grandfather walked into the man’s bedroom and saw him in the window about 7:10 p.m. The man said, “My life is (expletive) up” and “I don’t have anything to live for” before jumping out the window.

Two men brandishing weapons held up a Kansas City bank late this morning. The robbery occurred about 11 a.m. at the Country Club Bank branch at 44th Street and Belleview Avenue.

A 17-year-old girl accused of killing her teenage friend and a baby in a car wreck last year surrendered to Kansas City police early today.

Independence police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding an injured man found Monday morning at an East Truman Road used furniture store. The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was in critical condition, police said.

Airline passengers departing Kansas City International Airport will start being funneled through body scanners next week. Federal authorities announced the start time this morning while running local media through the new security initiative at KCI. A specific day was not announced.

The infant who died in a house fire Monday was 10-month-old Deanna Lockhart, Kansas City police said today. This afternoon, the girl’s brother, 4, remained in critical condition at the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Cincinnati burn center, where he was flown shortly after the blaze, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Jackson County prosecutors today accused a former Target employee and her friend of embezzling at least $120,000 worth of merchandise from the retail store at Ward Parkway Center.

Two people were killed and the driver critically injured in a fiery early morning crash in southern Overland Park. A witness who tried to rescue the crash victims, also suffered burns to his hands pulling the driver from the car.

Kansas City police announced they arrested 22 people on suspicion of driving while intoxicated during two special enforcement efforts over the weekend. Kansas City police, assisted by Jackson County deputies, conducted a sobriety checkpoint on Friday at East Truman Road and U.S. 71.

A Bayer CropScience plant worker in Kansas City who was exposed to insecticide fumes this morning has been released from the hospital, the company reports. Fire crews and an ambulance were called to the facility at 8400 Hawthorne Road shortly before 9 a.m. and reported that the worker had been exposed to Baythroid XL, which can be fatal if swallowed, according to online company information.

TOPEKA | Joined by two former Republican governors who championed Kansas highway programs, Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson made a pitch for more projects. Parkinson said Monday that while Kansas is ranked tops in the nation for its road system by Reader’s Digest, it won’t take long for that 10,000-mile system to deteriorate.

The house where an early-morning fire killed a 10-month old girl and injured two other children had one smoke detector, but it had no batteries, fire officials said.

MULVANE, Kan. | The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified the four people who were killed Monday when a sport utility vehicle driving north in the southbound lanes of the Kansas Turnpike hit a minivan head-on. The crash happened about 4:40 a.m. south of Wichita. Both drivers and two passengers in the minivan were killed.

A police report released Monday confirmed that the school bus that killed 9-year-old Patience N. Cary in Kansas City, Kan., on March 4 hit her after it veered off the road. The bus was northbound on North 66th Street at the intersection with Parkview Avenue around 8:10 a.m. when it drove off the road to the right and struck Patience, the report said.

A police report released today confirmed that the school bus that killed 9-year-old Patience N. Clary in Kansas City, Kan., hit her after it veered off the road. The bus was northbound on North 66th Street when, around 8:10 a.m. March 4 at Parkview Avenue, it drove off the road to the right and struck Patience, the report said.

About a quarter mile of Kansas City Road near the Bass Pro in Olathe is back open after being closed because of a cut in natural gas line. A private contractor was boring in the area when it struck the line this afternoon. The break occurred at about 1:20 p.m. No injuries were reported.

An Overland Park firefighter was injured this afternoon while battling a house fire.

A Lenexa man today pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing a Johnson County credit union and shooting a customer who pursued him.