Tag Archives: crime

Four people, including two minors, have been charged with a shooting at a Mennonite church building in Morgan County, Mo., last weekend. Authorities consider the act a hate crime. The Morgan County ...

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Four armed masked men remain at large after they entered a church but the robbery was prevented by congregational prayer. The Ferguson, Mo. congregation thwarted the gunmen when Marquaello Futrell, a former ...

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was the darling of the national media, the Obamas and the Democrat Party. She ticked all the right boxes for the left and was heralded as the first ...

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Thinking of vacationing in Mexico? Think again. The U.S. State Department has advised against travel to most of its tourist regions because of kidnappings and crime. The U.S. issued its highest-level warning for the ...

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Some tourists who would like to visit Israel are hesitant because of concerns about their safety. It turns out that those concerns are unfounded, the “Jerusalem Post” reports. In fact, Israel is ...

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Independence School District moving to a four-day school week gets national attention. “The impetus behind it was to attract and retain staff,” Superintendent Dal Herl told “Good Morning America.” “If you look ...

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Voters finally will go to the polls on Tuesday to determine the makeup of the U.S. Senate and House, as well as the governorships of several key states. Fox News asked political ...

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A pregnant Arkansas woman who thought she was going to a job interview was instead killed in Missouri by a woman who wanted to claim her baby, federal authorities said Friday. The baby ...

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Self-described “entertainer” Alex Jones has been ordered to pay almost $1 billion to families of victims of a mass shooting in Connecticut. The Oct. 12 jury verdict concluded Jones, the controversial InfoWars ...

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Kansas City ranks 162nd in a new study of the nation’s safest cities based on various factors, including crime levels, auto accidents and natural disasters. Across the state, St. Louis fared even ...

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Police in Iceland have arrested four men who were suspected of targeting “various institutions of society” and “citizens of the state.” It’s the biggest such bust since 1986 when members of the ...

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The backlash against the progressive agenda continues, even in liberal parts of the country. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters recalled District Attorney Chesa Boudin, in part because of his handling of rising ...

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The Kansas City area is the 51st-best place to live in the United States, according to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report. “Kansas City, Missouri, is no flyover Cowtown,” ...

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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas will join the National Day of Prayer service on the Country Club Plaza at Noon today. The gathering will take place at the JC Nichols fountain. Lucas ...

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Former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who was convicted last year of federal child pornography charges, will appear in court for sentencing in April. Duggar was featured on TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting.” ...

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Amid national reports in 2021 of record-setting crime rates in the U.S., Topeka achieved its lowest homicide rate in five years. According to the Topeka Police Department’s 2021 year-end report, the capital city ...

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Missouri’s member of the Squad, Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis, is standing firm on her commitment to defunding the police. “I always tell [fellow Democrats], ‘If you all had fixed ...

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Why ‘Black Minds Matter’ could be a game-changer for families in struggling schools. Growing up on the east side of Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of a teenage mother, Denisha Merriweather was failing. ...

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Radical fringe groups in Israel are trying to drive the Greek Orthodox Church out of Jerusalem, according to the local head of the church. “Our presence in Jerusalem is under threat,” Theophilos ...

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Shoppers may find that some of their favorite retailers may no longer be around in the new year. Several have announced the closure of locations in various cities, citing a number of factors, ...

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A jury on Monday heard closing arguments in the trial of three Georgia men charged in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. After 10 days of witness testimony, prosecutors said during closing arguments ...

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Columbia is gaining a reputation as one of Missouri’s most violent cities. The deep blue city, an outlier in an otherwise deep red central part of the state, has dealt with a ...

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Last week the sun was shining during my commute home from work. But after the yearly “fall back”  on Sunday that ended daylight saving time with our clocks moved an hour earlier, ...

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Missouri could become the new Colorado if a newly filed ballot measure legalizing recreational use of marijuana passes. Legal Missouri 2022, a statewide coalition, filed the initiative seeking to legalize recreational marijuana ...

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Mount Washington Missionary Baptist Church is finding that no good deed goes unpunished. Several people who live in the neighborhood said the church is creating a dangerous crime situation from squatters, break-ins, ...

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