Women robbed of purses while walking back to hotel
- 08/20/2008 11:04 AM CDT
Two women staying at an Overland Park hotel were held up at gunpoint Tuesday evening and their purses were stolen.
Two women staying at an Overland Park hotel were held up at gunpoint Tuesday evening and their purses were stolen.
WICHITA | Attorneys for a Kansas nurse accused of helping run a pill mill linked 58 accidental overdose deaths are appealing to a magistrate judge’s decision to keep her in jail pending trial.
JEFFERSON CITY | Health officials say new fire rules for Missouri’s long-term care facilities likely won’t mandate smoke detectors in every room.
Tickets for the Nov. 29 game at Arrowhead Stadium will be available to Jackson County taxpayers at 10 a.m. Monday until supplies last.
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A pickup truck slammed into a loft apartment building at the corner of 30th and Cherry streets around 7:45 a.m. this morning. The pickup driver and his teenage son were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Rain chances increase overnight and into Thursday.
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Police are looking for the two men who robbed two women at gunpoint Tuesday night. Officers were called to the Hampton Inn at 10591 Metcalf Ave. just after 10:30 p.m.
TOPEKA | A 25-year-old has been bound over for trial on charges that he killed a teenage girl in Shawnee County and set her body on fire.
A fire caused $2 million in damages to a Kansas City, Kan., business Tuesday night. Greg Scott, owner of the screen printing and embroidery business, said his machines melted and his merchandise burned up.
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The Royals, on Tuesday, played a team with a losing record for the first time since the All-Star break. It didn’t matter. Cleveland muscled up with three home runs and rolled to a 9-4 victory.
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Chiefs coach Herm Edwards talks at practice about figuring out his team's depth chart.
Veteran right-hander Kip Wells is just hoping the world slows down a little now that he’s signed with the Royals.
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More than 40 plaintiffs alleging they were abused by Roman Catholic clerics have reached a tentative settlement with the Kansas City diocese for about $10 million.
A Clay County grand jury today indicted a 26-year-old man on five criminal counts involving burglary and stealing.
An 18-year-old man was charged Tuesday afternoon in connection with the collision that seriously injured a Kansas City, Kan., police officer.
Was it a cold-blooded killing or self-defense? That is what a Wyandotte County jury will decide regarding the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Ratsamy Phanivong of Gardner outside a nightclub in the Village West development just before Christmas.
The Kansas City park board today used its power over the boulevards as leverage to force the Power & Light District to address continuing complaints about its dress code.
Jackson County prosecutors have charged four persons for allegedly breaking into a woman’s house, beating her and stealing her computer.
The Kansas City Star’s Features sections have been judged best in their class in the annual University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, which were announced Tuesday. An investigative series about insurance companies also landed The Star top honors in consumer affairs reporting.
Police in Florida are looking for a 49-year-old murder suspect who might have fled to the Kansas City area in his victim’s car.
Another reality TV show is trolling for contestants in Kansas City. This time, it’s MTV. Producers for MTV’s new reality show, “Model Makers,” will interview would-be contestants from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza, 401 Ward Parkway.
Congressman Dennis Moore hopped on a bus in downtown Kansas City, Kan., this morning. An hour (and many stops) later, he was in Village West with Unified Government Mayor Joe Reardon to talk about the state of public transportation.
Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, stumped for Nick Jordan today in Johnson County.
For the fifth time in a decade, a Kansas City public artwork has been singled out in the “Public Art in Review” section of Art in America magazine’s annual guide to museums, galleries and artists. This year the distinction goes to Omaha artist Jun Kaneko’s “Water Plaza” installation on the south side of the new Bartle Hall ballroom.
Unified Government Mayor Joe Reardon announced today that Sunday bus service will be offered in Kansas City, Kan., beginning Sept. 28.
More than 250 students this morning returned to a renovated and refurbished Oakhill Day School, three months after an EF2 tornado ripped through the structure leaving it uninhabitable.
Obesity rates in Missouri and Kansas are continuing to worsen, according to a report released today.
Overland Park police this morning asked for information from anyone who knows of people who were driving a stolen red Dodge Stratus on Friday.
Veteran right-handed pitcher Kip Wells agreed today to a one-year contract with the Royals. The club cleared space for him by optioning reliever Josh Newman to Class AAA Omaha.
Kansas City police this morning identified the O’Reilly Auto Parts employee slain outside the store Monday night as Brandon Garner, 24, of Raytown.
JOPLIN, Mo. | A former employee at a Carthage nursing home is charged with hitting a wheelchair-bound resident in the groin and forcing water into the man’s nose until he turned purple.
VIENNA, Mo. | Four central Missouri teenagers are charged with stealing a herd of cattle, loading them into a trailer and hauling the animals to an auction where they were sold.
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Rain could be coming for Wednesday, Thursday and maybe Friday.
SEDALIA | The Missouri State Fair drew at least 20 percent more visitors this year than last, helped partly by good weather and more attractions for children, fair officials said in reporting preliminary attendance figures.
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Kansas City police responded to a shooting this morning in the 7400 block of South Park Road in the Eastwood Hills neighborhood.
A man was dead Monday night after what police think might have been an armed robbery of a Troost Avenue business.
The Royals reached an agreement in principle Monday with veteran free-agent pitcher Kip Wells in a move designed primarily to bolster a beat-up bullpen.
Kansas City Councilwoman Jan Marcason said Monday that she was surprised by a statement that Mayor Mark Funkhouser made in a television interview that aired Friday night on the local NBC affiliate. When asked, Marcason acknowledged the comment had caught her attention and others at City Hall.
Kansas redshirt freshman placekicker Stephen Hoge has left the program, his father, John Hoge, said on Monday night.
Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull back to areas mandated by a cease-fire signed by both countries.
Tropical Storm Fay will likely not become a hurricane, forecasters said Wednesday, relieving fears the zig-zagging storm would return from the Atlantic with punishing force later this week.
Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain has consistently followed the government's instructions for keeping prohibited foreign money out of their presidential campaigns, and some of that banned money has slipped into Obama's campaign.
BEIJING - The U.S. men's basketball team advanced to the Beijing Olympic semifinals by beating Australia 116-85 at the Beijing Olympic Basketball Gymnasium on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.
For school bus driver Jamille Aine, a cold is more than an inconvenience. His employer does not offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills.
Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid.
A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.
Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain plan to pull ads on Sept. 11 that criticize each other, a respite from the political fray to honor the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Just a day after Pervez Musharraf's resignation, Pakistan's governing coalition fell into wrangling Tuesday over restoring the judges he fired, exposing troublesome divisions that could disrupt picking his successor as president.
"It's just so discouraging," Sanya Richards said after finishing third in the 400-meter race she has dominated all year. "It's almost like - I don't know. I don't want to say. It's just really hard."
Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.
Lolo Jones was supposed to take the Olympic 100-meter hurdles title. Other entrants knew it. Jones knew it. Even told herself so right before the start, mouthing, "I can win this race," when she was introduced to the crowd.
Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threatening - once again - to become a hurricane.
A combative Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain "doesn't know what he's up against" in this election and challenged his rival to stop questioning his character and patriotism.
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Barack Obama will publicly disclose his vice presidential choice in the coming days, though the Democrat is keeping the public and most aides who are preparing for the announcement in the dark. Likely on the short list: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Russia's foreign minister warned Ukrainian leaders Tuesday against trying to restrict the Kremlin's use of a Crimean naval base it leases from Ukraine, adding to tensions that have heated up since Russian troops invaded Georgia.
Wholesale inflation soared in July, leaving prices rising at the fastest pace in nearly three decades. While recent declines in oil and other commodity prices raise hopes inflation may have peaked, some economists worry about the widespread nature of the July price surge and caution it will take more time for that pressure to ease on Wall Street and Main Street.
President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he would seek re-election next year in hopes of finishing a job he said he hasn't yet completed.
Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after flooding struck a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.
Republican John McCain again insisted victory in Iraq "is finally in sight." So why, asked Democrat Barack Obama, does his presidential opponent still oppose a timetable for withdrawing American forces.
Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world - where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed online.
Federal inspectors at U.S. border crossings repeatedly turned back filthy, disease-ridden shipments of peppers from Mexico in the months before a salmonella outbreak that sickened 1,400 people was finally traced to Mexican chilies.
Russia and Georgia on Tuesday exchanged prisoners captured during their brief war, a move that may reduce tensions and, Georgia hopes, hasten the promised withdrawal of Russian troops.
Suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. military base near Afghanistan-Pakistan border in a daring attack on a major American installation, officials said Tuesday. Six insurgents detonated their vests after being surrounded.
There's no immunity deal for Pervez Musharraf, though Pakistan's coalition government hasn't decided whether to pursue charges against the former president who resigned rather than face impeachment, the nation's law minister said Tuesday.
Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Florida Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.
Three teens were ordered Monday to stand trial in the beating death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico after a friend of the defendants testified that the victim was sucker-punched and kicked in the head during a late-night, epithet-filled melee.
Pervez Musharraf's departure from the presidency is unlikely to have a significant impact on how Pakistan's nuclear weapons are controlled.
