Independence

Three men have been sentenced in for their roles in a conspiracy to commit a series of armed robberies by luring their victims with online advertisements .

Authorities say a 32-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend, whose body was found in a wooded area in a park.

A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Leon Hinckley.

A Sedalia man is one of two defendants indicted in connection with a $7 million conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Pettis, Cooper, Boone, Morgan, Pulaski and Jackson counties.

A man is accused of fatally shooting a 23-year-old man in Independence, Missouri.

Sedalia Police arrested a 39-year-old woman after an AMBER Alert was issued Monday night by the Benton County Sheriff's Office for two Warsaw children.

A standoff that started after police found a fatally wounded man has ended with two arrests in suburban Kansas City.

Suburban Kansas City police are investigating the shooting death of a 16-year-old in the driveway of a home near his high school.

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms after accidentally shooting himself in the leg during an assault against his mother.

A former teacher in Independence has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.