Dan Verbeck

The panel that oversees policies for the Kansas City Fire Ambulance Service will expand and refocus if the City Council approves in two weeks.

Two men and a woman have been murdered in an Independence, Missouri home invasion and police have a partial description of the killers, saying that a surviving victim was able to describe the attackers.

The Region Seven Administrator of the  Environmental  Protection Agency holds up University of Missouri-Kansas City’s food recovery and  dining  recycling programs as examples to emulate.

Kansas City’s elected leaders are now able to compare how well  city ambulance service makes timely arrival at emergencies, district-by- district of the community.

A change in U.S. immigration policy last summer has translated into 800 new jobs for metro Kansas City.  The work will be both sides of state line and pay no less than $27,000 a year.

So much depends on factors influencing the Kansas City area economy, the best drawn analysis of future trends has to be flexible. Forecasters readily admit it.

The Kansas City Council, leaders of the Fire Department and medical experts danced with each other over improved ambulance service without resolution today.

Missouri’s 5th District Congressman Emanuel Cleaver got 60 percent of the vote and an easy win over Republican opponent Jacob Turk.

The biggest election day problem anticipated by the Johnson County, Kansas Election Commissioner is helping people find the right polling place.

Leading into weekend campaigning, supporters of the two leading candidates for the U.S. Senate race in Missouri show no sign of slackening efforts.

Seeking re-election, Mo. Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill said she expects crossover support from Republicans who will vote for Mitt Romney for President and are displeased with her opponent, Todd Akin.

Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called the Missouri Senate race unique among other contests in the country.

An announcement from the campaign staff of Missouri U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill said the Senator's mother has died.

At Olathe, Kansas, the Johnson County seat, a county grand jury has refused to find any violation of  Kansas obscenity laws in display of a statue at an arboretum park in Overland Park.