Kansas City

There may be a cease-fire, but the economic “border war” involving the use of incentives to lure jobs across the state line in the Kansas City area isn’t exactly over.

Authorities have arrested three people in the carjacking of a vehicle with a 5-year-old child inside.

A Missouri man has been convicted of killing his mother’s fiance after blaming him for burglarizing his home.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday referred 12 former priests for potential criminal prosecution but stopped short of recommending charges against any top church leaders, despite concluding the Roman Catholic Church was involved in “long, sustained and far-reaching cover-up.…

A worker has found what’s believed to be a Civil War cannonball lodged in a Kansas City area tree that he was hired to take down.

The speaker of the Missouri House said he hopes to have a proposal aimed at combatting gun violence ready to debate next year, but critics say action needs to be taken sooner as the death toll mounts in the state’s largest cities.

A mother has testified in the trial of a suspended Kansas priest charged with molesting her daughter that she was raised to hold priests in high regard and didn’t know how to respond when she became concerned.

Authorities have found a body and submerged vehicle in a northeast Kansas lake.

Two people were injured Tuesday afternoon in a Johnson County vehicle wreck.

A series of shootings has left four people dead in Kansas City over 24 hours as concerns mount about violent crime in the state’s two largest cities.