by [email protected] | Feb 14, 2024 | News
The Super Bowl Victory parade in Kansas City was abruptly ended today by gunshots – with one person dead and at least 22 others have been injured. KMBC-TV in Kansas City reports Children’s Mercy Hospital is treating 12 people, 11 are children, with 9 of those...
by Marshall Griffin | Oct 17, 2023 | Crime / Courts, News
A former Kansas City police detective will have to serve a six-year prison sentence for shooting an unarmed Black man. The ruling was released Tuesday by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. Eric DeValkenaere, who’s white, was found guilty two years ago of...
by Marshall Griffin | Aug 16, 2023 | Crime / Courts, News
An Olathe, Kansas man will spend 78 months in federal prison, without parole, for leading Kansas City police on a chase down an airport runway. Efren Torres-Rodriguez, 35, pleaded guilty five months ago to damaging and disrupting an international airport, and to being...
by Alisa Nelson | Dec 23, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced today the results of Operation Legend, a federal anti-crime program named after a Kansas City boy who was shot and killed earlier this year. He launched the operation as an initiative in which federal law enforcement...
by Alisa Nelson | May 30, 2020 | Crime / Courts, News, Politics / Govt
Today, Gov. Mike Parson has signed an executive order declaring a State of Emergency in Missouri due to civil unrest. In a press release, he says the Missouri National Guard and the Missouri Highway Patrol stand ready to support local authorities. This week’s death of...