Wyandotte County News

Kansas City's budget reserve has shrunk to a precarious 2.5 percent, down from 8.6 percent at the end of April.

A federal grand jury has indicted a former Leavenworth inmate in the 2003 killing of another inmate, the United State's Attorney's Office announced Friday.

A Wyandotte County judge sentenced a man on Friday to four years in prison for a car crash that killed 17-year-old Christopher Brown of Kansas City, Kan.Eric Snitz, 41, of Basehor, pleaded no contest in August to involuntary manslaughter while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

For decades, the 19th century steamer trunk emblazoned with the Louis Vuitton emblem sat in a musty Topeka basement.It belonged to a Frenchman, Tim Berry said of the trunk, which he and his wife, Linda, hauled from Topeka on Saturday to the Wyandotte County Historical Museums version of the PBS program Antiques Roadshow.The Frenchman came to the ...

Voters throughout the Kansas City metro area went to polling places Tuesday for a variety of questions and open positions.

A group hoping to build a casino south of Wichita says it has a firm plan to build a hotel soon after the casino opens.

Some of the Kansas Republican legislators should take a deep breath. The histrionics prompted by the resignation of Commerce Secretary David Kerr are completely unwarranted.

A 39-year-old Wyandotte County man died this week related to complications from the H1N1 flu, heath officials said today.The patient with no underlying medical conditions started experiencing symptoms on Oct.

Three more people have died in Kansas from the H1N1 virus, health officials said.

Kansas health officials say three more residents who had been diagnosed with swine flu have died, bringing the state's total to 12.

Kansas health officials say three more residents who had been diagnosed with swine flu have died, bringing the state's total to 12.

The Wyandotte County Museum on Saturday will hold its own version of PBS popular Antiques Roadshow.Bring in your stuff military artifacts, fine art, furniture, jewelry, etc.

Pastor Thomas Hamilton, of Stony Point Baptist Church in KCK, says he feels betrayed.

They are dreaming big in Kansas, hoping for oodles of potential revenues from a proposed casino in Wyandotte County.

4 sentencing date has been set for the hired gun who not only killed his target but paralyzed the woman who was paying him to kill her husband.

Advance voting has begun in an Edwardsville special election that asks voters to approve a half-cent sales tax increase.If approved, the revenue will not be devoted to a particular project.

Man guilty in seventh-graders shooting deathAn 18-year-old man is guilty of first-degree murder in the Feb.

A Wyandotte County jury found 18-year-old Patricio Briseno guilty of first-degree murder yesterday in the death of Ricardo Zamora .

It might be a good idea to avoid the I-70/435 interchange in Wyandotte County the rest of this week, especially if you use the intersection to get to the Missouri side of the metro.

The Kansas highway department is trying out a new way of picking projects that could tilt in favor of Kansas City area drivers.In addition to factors such as crash rates, traffic volumes and pavement condition, planners for the first time would evaluate road projects by their economic development punch.Local officials said the change was long ...