Pleasant Valley News

An attorney for the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy said Monday his client was transferred from a prison that houses high-risk offenders to a new facility where his life could be in danger.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with Clay County Sheriff Bob Boydston, four members of the Kansas City Council on Oct.

Autoworkers in Missouri overwhelmingly rejected a new contract with Ford Motor Co., a sign that the automaker and the United Auto Workers union are having trouble convincing some workers to accept changes that would lower Ford's labor costs.

Authorities in Clay County are sweeping the Northland to arrest suspected drug suspects as part of "Operation Twilight." The warrants are based on a year-long investigation, as officers from eight different law-enforcement agencies gathered at the Clay County Detention Center early Friday morning with the goal of making 33 arrests from secret ...

A public hearing about the progress of the Pleasant Valley project led to a longer conversation about Belmont's weeklong boil order and how the town should respond to such emergencies in the future.

The planned transfer of Phil Spector to a different prison has been halted, a corrections official said Friday, but different reasons were given as complications continued to surround his incarceration.

A community forum designed to educate school leaders and parents about crime issues affecting youth will take place Saturday at Kansas City Regional Police Academy in the Northland.The forum, Partnering to Protect Our Children, will be 9 a.m. to noon at 6885 N.E. Pleasant Valley Road.School administrators, counselors, teachers, parents and anyone ...

A community forum designed to educate school leaders and parents about crime issues affecting youth will take place Saturday at Kansas City Regional Police Academy in the Northland.The forum, Partnering to Protect Our Children, will be 9 a.m. to noon at 6885 N.E. Pleasant Valley Road.School administrators, counselors, teachers, parents and anyone ...

Mark Dumolt, a retired Kansas City police major, was sworn in Monday evening as the new police chief for Pleasant Valley.Dumolt replaces Jim Daum, who was terminated in April and had held the position for about two years.Dumolt, who was born and raised in northeast Kansas City, will be Pleasant Valleys 10th police chief in 10 years.

Clay County authorities have charged a 17-year-old for his role in connection to a drive-by shooting that took place last weekend in Pleasant Valley.LeRon Darnell Jones of Kansas City was charged Thursday with one count of unlawful use of a weapon and resisting a lawful stop.

Summer is winding down for me, and I think I am as bad as the thousands of area kids out there ready to start a new school year.

Summer is winding down for me, and I think I am as bad as the thousands of area kids out there ready to start a new school year.

A Pleasant Valley man was sentenced today in Clay County Circuit Court to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl.Terry Ray Smith, 35, was charged with one count of first-degree statutory rape for an attack April 13, 2008, at a residence on Oak Street in Pleasant Valley.The girl had spent the evening at the ...

The 22 pines stood dry and brown alongside a ball field in Kansas Citys Pleasant Valley Park.Until Thursday, when park employees started cutting them all down.Its not a good year for pine trees, said Forest Decker, manager of forestry and conservation with the city of Kansas City.

Terry Ramsey, museum coordinator, explained, "The 'Never Ending Story' exhibit has been designed with a space for a temporary exhibit that can be changed each year.

Kansas City's Shoal Creek Patrol is reaching out to "Night Owls" or those who can't attend meetings during the day.

A man was hurt when his lawn mower plunged into a hole in Pleasant Valley on Wednesday.

A bouquet of Easter lilies to Nanaimo Transit bus drivers for finding and keeping my wallet that I lost a month ago.