Kansas City News

A study released Wednesday by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center analyzes the size and structure of the underground commercial sex economies in eight major cities: San Diego, Seattle, Dallas, Denver, Washington, D.C., Miami, Atlanta and Kansas City, Missouri.

Kansas City drivers better plan their travels or pray for the luck of the Irish this St. Patrick's Day weekend as runs and parades temporarily take over some streets.

Kansas City police say the death of a man whose body was found at a recycling warehouse apparently was accidental.

"A couple of teens came across a disturbing discovery in a wooded area of the Northland.

Prosecutors file felony charges of financially exploiting the elderly against a man and woman from Utah in connection with what police say is a door-to-door scam selling alarm systems.

Comic books played a key role in the transition of Darryl "DMC" McDaniels to music.

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Kansas City, Missouri: A Washington, DC organisation aimed at reducing gun violence is suing an Missouri gun store in the death of a Lafayette County man shot and killed by his mentally troubled daughter.

A Gladstone boy who has been battling brain cancer, got a salute from Kansas City-area police officers before getting a ride to a hospital in a police cruiser A NINE YEAR OLD BOY, WHO'S BATTLING CANCER, GOT A VERY SPECIAL RIDE TO THE HOSPITAL FOR ONE OF HIS TREATMENTS.

Kansas City Mayor Sly James is putting the finishing touches on his official State of the City speech, which he'll deliver on March 24 at Park Hill High School.

The Big 12 Championships will draw thousands of fans and has an estimated $9 million local economic impact.

On March 12, the Surgicenter of Kansas City will break ground on a new 23,000-square-foot facility in Kansas City, Mo., according to a Kansas City Business Journal report.

Art without borders. Regional artists are displaying their work at the Vine Street Studio through March 29, 2014, as part of Culture Without Borders, a month-long art show sponsored by the Northeast Arts Kansas City.

The unprecedented 340-page study by the Urban Institute, a policy research group, finds _ not surprisingly _ that the reach of the Internet has facilitated the flesh trade and made it harder to combat.

Air Force reservist Leo Brown, a religion teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, will be deployed to Afghanistan later this month with the 442nd Fighter Wing.

Google Fiber service debuted in several Kansas City neighborhoods in the fall of 2012.

Kansas City police are investigating after a dead body was found at the now closed, old Westport Middle School at 39th and Warwick.

If you go to the end of a cul de sac in Kansas City, North, and down the stairs of Floyd Brittian’s house, you’ll wind up Fort Smith, Ark., circa 1953.

Kyle Flack, the man accused of killing 4 people - including a toddler - began his court appearance Tuesday in Ottawa, KS.

The Kansas City area is a hotbed for model railroading with over three dozen “fully finished” private layouts.