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Crime

An 18-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man faces nine criminal charges in connection to a Sunday afternoon shoplifting incident at Oak Park Mall in which a gunshot was fired, leading to panic in the mall's food court. On Tuesday afternoon, Nery...
Two people are in police custody after trying to get away from officers after shoplifting inside Oak Park Mall on Sunday afternoon. Police were sent to the Oak Park Mall Food Court, 11149 W. 95th St., at 4:20 p.m. for...
An 18-year-old man has non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting in Shawnee late Monday evening. Police were called to the Fox Run Luxury Apartments parking lot outside of 7623 Goddard St. just before 9:30 p.m. Recorded radio traffic indicates that a man...
Updated Friday, 11:45 a.m.  Shawnee Police say a man is now in custody in connection to a robbery at a 7-Eleven earlier this week that involved a suspect wielding a kitchen knife. In a statement Friday, Shawnee Public Safety Information Officer...
A woman was stabbed in the hand during an attempted robbery at a U-Haul truck rental center in Overland Park early Friday evening. Overland Park Police were called to the U-Haul Center, 7740 Metcalf Ave., at 5:06 p.m. for a...
Merriam Police are investigating after a man with a gun robbed a convenience store on Monday afternoon. Officers were called to the Conoco convenience store at 10225 West 47th St. at 1:40 p.m. “A masked person came into the store and...
Editor's Note: The following story contains descriptions of violence that some readers may find disturbing.  The former children’s pastor and teacher accused of attacking his family and setting their house on fire earlier this month told police that he did...
A Shawnee youth pastor and teacher charged with trying to kill his wife and children over the weekend made his first court appearance on Monday. Matthew Richards, 41, appeared in front of a Johnson County District Court magistrate judge via...
Updated: Sunday, Sept. 17, 8 a.m. A Shawnee youth pastor and teacher is charged with trying to stab his wife and children to death and set their family home on fire. Matthew Lee Richards, 41, is charged with five counts of...
Shawnee Police are investigating a disturbance and house fire that injured seven people early Saturday morning. In a news release, Shawnee Public Safety Information Officer Emily Rittman says police and firefighters were called to a home in the 6600 block...
Overland Park Police say someone fired gunshots at a woman and her child during a confrontation over speeding through an apartment complex on Tuesday evening. It happened at about 8:45 p.m. in the Stone Ridge Apartments in the 5100 block...
A Johnson County Community College employee has been convicted of disorderly conduct for his aggressive behavior in traffic. The conviction in Overland Park Municipal Court follows a campus police report filed by a student, who reported the JCCC groundskeeper, Daniel...