Wyandotte County News

Has your boss cut your pay? Taken away overtime? Reduced your workweek? Eliminated raises? Chopped your benefits? Put you on an unpaid furlough? Join the millions who have seen their take-home pay flattened by the double whammy of recession and its 10 percent-plus unemployment rate.

The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has appointed the chamber's senior vice president for government relations and policy development to serve as interim president.

The Kansas Lottery has rejected an application from a group seeking to build and manage a state-owned casino in the southeastern part of Kansas.

What should you do with your retirement plan money when you leave a job? Kitchentablenomics blogger Gene Meyer notes that you essentially have three options: Cash it in,leave the money in the plan even though you no longer work for the employer, or roll it into an IRA.

Two man face charges after allegedly stealing a car with a baby inside. The Wyandotte County District Attorney charged Charles White, 19, and Frank Scharschell, 22, both of Kansas City, Kan.

Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Cristian Ruiz late Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of Jose Luis Salazar-Moreno . WyCo prosecutors allege that Ruiz, 22, shot and killed Salazar-Moreno, 28, in an alley south of the 900 block of Armstrong Avenue around 4:49 a.m. on November 15.

A 22-year-old man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jose Luis Salazar.Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman charged Cristian Ruiz, of Kansas City, Kan., in the Nov.

The United Way of Wyandotte County fell short of its $2.4 million goal, officials announced Wednesday.But rather than close the campaign with slightly more than $2 million that has already been raised, the campaign will continue indefinitely until the goal is met.

Wyandotte County's Unified Government will spend almost $500,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged police misconduct.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. a ' A shooting Friday night left one KCK teenager dead and now his brother passed away from injuries sustained in the same shooting.

Two men were charged last week with killing Dennis J. Moore Sr . Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Levert Xavier Braswell and Artis M. Johnson with first-degree murder in the death of Moore.

Kansas City, Kansas Police are looking for a man charged in connection with a murder and attempted murder, and who police consider armed and dangerous.

Inmate sentenced in 2003 killingA Kansas City man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a man in 2003 at age 14.

Wyandotte County prosecutors have charged two men with first degree-murder and other crimes related to a fatal shooting.Lavert Braswell, 20 and Artis Johnson, 18, also face charges of attempted robbery, burglary and aggravated battery in the Oct.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for hundreds of area taxpayers who have not received refund checks.

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.