Platte City News

There will be no criminal charges filed as the result of an investigation of a personnel situation involving a captain in the Platte County Sheriff's Department.

Durbin, suffering from depression as well as battling drug and alcohol addiction, sought treatment at a residential treatment center, but was kicked out after violating an administrative policy, his mother says.

Officials in Platte City are moving forward with the process of hiring a replacement for Jason Metten, the former city administrator who resigned in August.

This week, The Landmark Newspaper begins its 149th year of consecutive publication.

Kevin M. Kraft spent years unsatisfied with the instruments he had and was considering commissioning a custom-made guitar when he came across an alternative: Making one himself from a cigar box and other simple materials.

Corrections officers found 57-year-old Randy Ridens along with Allen Hurst and Scott Gilbert missing from the Lansing Correctional Facility early Friday morning.

Authorities say they believe two armed men holed up in a northwest Missouri home escaped from a Kansas prison Friday.

USAgain, the Chicago-based textile recycling company, is partnering with Warrior Dash, world's largest obstacle race series, which came to the Kansas City area on April 27 and 28.

Shirley A. Ball, 82, St. Joseph, Missouri died Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at a local healthcare facility.

Hearty paticipants ran through trenches, climbed walls and slogged through mud, among other obstacles, in three-mile Warrior Dash on Sunday at Platte Ridge Park in Platte City.

Hearty paticipants ran through trenches, climbed walls and slogged through mud, among other obstacles, in three-mile Warrior Dash on Sunday at Platte Ridge Park in Platte City.