Dan Verbeck

A relatively uncomplicated post-mortem report from the Jackson County Medical Examiner finds former Chiefs Linebacker Jovan Belcher was legally intoxicated when he killed his longtime girlfriend and himself December 1st.

A Jackson County court official is taking action to guard the future of the orphaned baby of a Kansas City Chiefs player who murdered the child’s mother and killed himself.

Twenty-six years after signing on as a Kansas City firefighter, Paul Berardi has become the chief of the department.

The Missouri Supreme Court agrees without dissent that a Northwest Missouri man was twice unjustly convicted and sentenced to life.

A stunning account of detectives using social media has unfolded as a second man was sentenced in Kansas City federal court for a murder committed more than six years earlier during a bank holdup.

The organization that is the Kansas City Chiefs is operating in such uncertainty only the owner may know how the repair work will appear.

One week short of a year from being hired as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach, Romeo Crennel today learned he’d been fired.

As a Jackson County Prosecutor throughout the 1990s, Albert Reiderer made news headlines often.

A twice-wounded Kansas City, Missouri man is recovering, under guard, in a Kansas City, Kansas hospital. The man was shot by police and is charged with assault on an officer.

Gun shows, Missouri Medicaid expansion & more: Your morning news from KCUR.

Thursday morning's snowstorm disrupted flights, schools and power, but by Friday Kansas City is getting back on track. That & more news from KCUR.

Kansas City Mayor Sly James is among the latest to sign a letter being sent the President and Congress. The subject: gun and ammunition control.

Wind speed was one of the chief concerns Thursday morning as the first real snow of the season pummeled parts of the region.

Governor Jay Nixon says his administration may seek legislation to protect school children. U.S. Senator Roy Blunt says greater gun control is not the answer. Those stories and more from KCUR News.

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt says badly administered mental health programs should be fixed as a remedy, rather than blame guns, for violence like the Connecticut school killings.