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Steve Mann doesn't look like an outlaw as he cheerfully harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend's garden in Kansas City, North.

A mobile-home park and a cemetery count as landmarks in Blue Summit, Missouri, an unincorporated pocket of Jackson County between Kansas City and Independence.

Kansas City -- Darvin Wallis, a longtime NFL assistant coach with Cleveland and Kansas City, has died.

Fay Wilson has lived through the Great Depression, baseball players Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, both world wars and everything in between.

Ira Oris Biffle, who grew up on farms in Bollinger County, became an early aviation pioneer, helping initiate the Army Air Service and teaching famed pilot Charles Lindbergh to fly.

Fueled by the foreclosure crisis, the number of vacant buildings in Kansas City has spread like the real estate version of a pandemic flu.In just one year, city officials say, the number has exploded by 2,000 to more than 7,500 empty or abandoned structures.

State Route Y closed to through traffic between the Beyer Crushed Rock quarry and State Route YY on Friday for road reconstruction.

A festival-filled fall is just around the corner for Cass County. Annual festivities will begin next week with the Garden City Fall Festival and last until the end of October with the Peculiar Harvest Moon Festival.Garden City Fall FestivalThe Garden City Fall Festival will be held Sept.

Authorities are seeking the publics help in finding a motorcyclist accused of running over a police officer in the parking lot of a convenience store.Franklin T. Atwell, 25, was charged in Clay County with second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer in the incident that occurred on July 9 at a QuikTrip at 6940 N. Oak Trafficway.

Kalamazoo city commissioners approved a three-year, $7,899,100 contract with a Missouri company Monday to operate van transportation for disabled and senior-citizen riders who cannot use local fixed-route bus service.

Northbound Route 71 traffic will be switched to the new bridge over 163rd Street early Saturday, which will close ramps connecting 163rd Street to northbound Route 71.

Fire investigators said someone intentionally set fire to a home in the 3700 block of Cleveland Avenue early Tuesday morning.

Two officers had to be cut from their police car when it was rear-ended and spun out of control, coming to rest against the porch of this Kansas City duplex near 53rd Street and Cleveland Avenue.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' Police say two men who agreed to give money and drugs to two women in exchange for oral sex were shot multiple times in an attempted robbery, and the women were behind the whole thing.

Todays problemLinda Muller, of Cleveland in Cass County, is concerned that GPS devices show her street address at the end of Lone Pine Drive when it is actually several houses from the end.

By my count, this is the second time a drunk guy has allegedly swiped an ambulance from Research Medical Center.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' A Raytown man is now facing several charges after allegedly stealing an ambulance from a Kansas City hospital.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. a ' A man stole an ambulance from the Research Medical Center, despite a police escort.

The Kansas City Weasels rocked into the finals Saturday night on their quest for the title of Americas best corporate rock n roll band.The band secured one of eight spots to play at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in October for the final competition of Fortune magazines Battle of the Corporate Bands.The band lived up to its old name of ...

Missouri State junior catcher Dallas Hord became the sixth Bear selected in the pro baseball draft when he was picked in the 32nd round today by the Florida Marlins.