Jackson County is making changes in how domestic violence and drug distribution cases are handled. Certain incidents are going straight to the Jackson County courthouse.

A woman believed to be behind the shooting that took the life of an Independence man at an Olathe apartment complex was found ...

A man led Independence police on a chase before a deadly gunfire exchange on Thursday night, according to law enforcement.

The 18-year-old who was wanted for a December armed robbery in Overland Park before he skipped out on house arrest was found ...

Rosen, among the most decorated legal professionals in Missouri, retired last month after more than 30 years on the bench and a career that indelibly shaped adult abuse laws, guardian ad litem ...

The winner almost stopped after scratching off the first number, thinking the $5,000 she won at first was "good enough for me ...

The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has brought nine cases under the new ban on celebratory and reckless gunfire in city ...

An American woman who was tried in three killings before disappearing from a Mexican prison more than 50 years ago died in Canada, where she was living under an assumed ...

An FBI spokeswoman directed questions to the Jackson County sheriff's office in Missouri ... Kinne, who married at 16, was living in a ranch home in the Independence, Missouri, area in March 1960 when ...

A Columbia man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly throwing an incendiary device described as being similar to a Molotov cocktail at the front door of the Boone County Courthouse, igniting a ...

JACKSON COUNTY — The Indiana State Board of Animal Health confirmed over the weekend the detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, at a commercial egg layer ...