KC couple charged with confining girl in basement
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – A Kansas City couple was taken into custody Wednesday on charges that they confined a 9-year-old girl in a basement with a…
Murder charges sought for man in 5 Nevada deaths
By SCOTT SONNER (RENO, Nev., AP) – Authorities are seeking murder charges against a 25-year-old man they believe is responsible for a string of five apparently random killings this week…
Three-day fall festival set for September in Warrensburg
A three-day fall festival is coming to downtown Warrensburg. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County and Warrensburg Main Street Inc. are sponsoring the first Burg Fest, which is scheduled…
Zebra mussels found in western Mo. lake
(NEVADA, Mo., AP) – The state Conservation Department says biologists have found invasive zebra mussels in a west-central Missouri lake. The department says a crew conducting a fish study found…
Navy launches unmanned aircraft from carrier
By BROCK VERGAKIS (ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, AP) – The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a…
Mo. mom has heroic Mother’s Day by rescuing family
(FLORISSANT, Mo., AP) – A St. Louis County mother saved the day on Mother’s Day after finding relatives unresponsive in their beds, authorities said. Names of the woman and her…
4 kids, 2 adults dead in Pa. fire on Mother’s Day
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (POTTSVILLE, Pa., AP) – Fire tore through a family’s eastern Pennsylvania home on Mother’s Day, authorities said, killing four young children, their father and another relative while…
Two Green Ridge residents killed in hit-and-run
(JOHNSON COUNTY, Mo., digitalBURG) – Two Green Ridge, Mo., residents were killed and two were seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident Sunday morning, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.…
Mo. collection sold for breast cancer
(GRANBY, Mo., AP) – A southwest Missouri woman’s 2,000-piece Precious Moments figurine collection has been donated to a breast cancer foundation. Jon Stouffer donated his late mother’s collection of Precious…
2 bodies found after NJ standoff; suspect killed
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI (TRENTON, N.J., AP) – A registered sex offender who barricaded himself for days in a home with his girlfriend’s three children was shot to death Sunday as…