The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent running back Thomas Jones, who led the New York Jets to the AFC championship game last season and was the NFL's third-leading rusher.

Fans turn out in force on Tuesday to watch the practice sessions the day before the Big 12 Basketball Tournament starts at the Sprint Center. Brackets | Practice Times | Fan Info

A crash involving a tractor-trailer and a car has shut down traffic on U.S. 71 Highway near 163rd Street near Belton.

Aim For Peace receives $300,000 from the police department budget on Tuesday.

Kansas City leaders are trying to get Google to bring its super high-speed broadband network to the metro.

Family loyalties are divided as fans gather to cheer on their teams in the Big 12 Basketball Tournament.

An Olathe woman pleads guilty to check fraud.

Sticking with its "boys, have at it" attitude, NASCAR placed Carl Edwards on probation for three races Tuesday for deliberately wrecking Brad Keselowski's car last weekend in Atlanta.

Forecasters say a wetter than usual winter and a jet stream dipping deep into Tornado Alley could lead to an active spring.

Police have released the identity of the 9-year-old girl who was hit and killed by a school bus last Thursday.

A metro mother was sentenced to 18 years in jail for the second-degree murder of her 7-year-old son.

An early-season tornado touches down in Oklahoma this week.

Two people are accused of stealing more than $10,000 in diamond earrings from a jewelry store Saturday.

Three people are injured in a car crash with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 35 on Tuesday morning.

A former Weston police officer who is serving prison time in Lansing for selling drugs is now charged with stealing drugs from his former employer.

The first Pinstripe Bowl will be played on Dec. 30 at Yankee Stadium and will be televised by ESPN.

The University of Kansas has placed the assistant athletics director for the Williams Fund on administrative leave.

The Shawnee Mission School Board discussed budget cuts in the district for the 2010-11 school year and faces cutting $10.1 million and up to 128 jobs.

Police captured a man and woman who were involved in a high speed chase. The man surrendered to police on top of an abandoned building at 30th Street and Brown Avenue in Kansas City, Kan.

Downtown Kansas City is getting ready to be taken over by crazed college hoops fans as the Big 12 Tournament heads into town on Wednesday. Brackets | Practice Times | Fan Info |