Charges will not be filed in the decades-old slaying of a Kansas City civil rights leader in part because the main suspect in the case is dead, the Jackson County prosecutor said.

The Missouri River has overflowed its banks in the northwest part of the state.

The father of a student who was gunned down on his way home from the library has been charged with robbing a pizza restaurant.

A single family remains living in the flooded-out town of Big Lake, Mo.

Police say an officer shot a man who aimed a gun at them while serving a high-risk drug warrant on Tuesday.

With flood waters rising in parts of western Missouri, the state transportation agency is giving motorists some online guidance for avoiding washed-out roads.

Kansas Gov. Brownback helps break ground on four new single-family houses in the Douglas-Sumner neighborhood of Kansas City, Kan.

An Independence councilman dies Tuesday morning at Kansas City Hospice.

Here's your chance to win a screening pass for two to see the new movie "Bad Teacher" starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Segal and Justin Timberlake.

Acknowledging it is out of the ordinary for city mayors to take a stand on American military policy, the U.S. Conference of Mayors passed a resolution Monday calling for an early end to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Police say the man accused of raping two women in the Rosedale neighborhood had absconded from a halfway house.

Residents of the Holt County town of Craig hope the levee will hold and water will remain out of their city.

One family is trying to stick it out as floodwaters continue to rise in Big Lake.

Severe weather could roll through the metro area late Monday afternoon and throughout the evening hours.

Teresa Stone is charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her husband, Randy Stone.

The Ottawa police say they have arrested a man in connection with an assault from 2000.

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols will be out for 4-6 weeks with a fractured left forearm.

Law enforcement in Kansas and Missouri are screening heavy equipment in Jackson and Johnson counties.