Jackson County News

The male polar bear at the Kansas City Zoo is off exhibit and is being treated with gastrointestinal medication, officials said Tuesday.

An investigation has been launched after officers used a stun gun on a man who had been acting erratically and he then died, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman said Monday morning.

The Saturday before Mother's Day, for an hour or so, Kelly Riemann sat in a grassy median on Ward Parkway in Kansas City, Mo.

June 15, 2013 Friday, June 14 at 11:51 p.m, agencies were dispatched to Longview Lake Marina on a possible drowning.

Since the U.S. Housing bubble burst in 2008 Kansas City has been home to a MASSIVE amount of abandoned real estate blighting local neighborhoods.

Serving a lengthy prison sentence for a rape he didn't commit, Robert E. Nelson asked for DNA testing to prove his innocence.

Traffic is slow on Interstate 635 northbound at the Missouri River after a man jumped off it, authorities said Friday morning.The man jumped about 10:30 a.m. The Kansas City Scout system said at least Traffic is slow on Interstate 635 northbound at the Missouri River after a man jumped off it, authorities said Friday morning.

DNA evidence exonerated Robert Nelson, who did not appear at a news conference Friday.

"Midwest Innocence Project and the Jackson County Prosecutor will hold a joint press conference on this matter at 2:00pm on the 11th Floor of the Jackson County, MO Courthouse."

The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals has decided that Judge R. Michael Wagner will remain on the seat in the trial of Ziyad T. Abid.

Judge John Torrence’s words at a sentencing hearing this week rang as true as any ever uttered in a Jackson County courtroom “Tragedy doesn’t begin to describe this,” the circuit court judge said while handing down a 12-year prison term to Casey Brezik, the mentally ill man who attacked a community college administrator in 2010.

A thief broke into the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio early Wednesday and made off with an original signed sketch worth $16,000.

A Phoenix mom was arrested Sunday on suspicion of injected her 5-year-old daughter with methamphetamine and amphetamine, Tolleson police said.

The Jackson County Medical Examiner's Office determined a fetus found at an Independence pump station had speed and marijuana in his system.

These people are sought by the Kansas City, Mo. Police Department and are presumed to be in our area.

A study key in the future of Jackson County's commuter-rail aspirations is under way.

A Kansas City woman is recovering from a staph infection she says she got from an area hospital, but when she started asking questions, she was shown the door.

Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and other officials led a tour Thursday, showing off the building’s new plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as its new elevator shaft.

Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders and other officials led a tour Thursday, showing off the building’s new plumbing, mechanical and electrical systems, as well as its new elevator shaft.

What sprouts in the lot between a powder blue house and artist Rebecca Koop's clay shop, Back Door Pottery, is sure to make passers-by smile.