Dan Verbeck

Olathe-based humanitarian relief agency Heart to Heart International intends to stay with its medical volunteers as long as they are needed in  Moore, Oklahoma.    

A team was heading to the  EF- 5 tornado scene within hours of the devastation, according to the chief executive.

Organization founder Doctor Gary Morsch, who has Oklahoma  relief agency  roots was ahead of them all.

A mobile medical clinic was on the highway going South by 7 Monday evening. 

Gasoline prices may have leveled off in Kansas City, following a dramatic one-week leap in the cost of fuel.  

Updated 10:15 a.m Storms Aftermath Shows Power Restoration:

Utility troubleshooters from KCP&L have restored a large portion of service to harder hit areas. The utility’s web site indicated the Raytown area had 237 outages just after 10 a.m.

Six hours earlier there were 4500 without electricity. Missouri outages of more than one hundred customers in other area districts and cities include:

An ad hoc group trying to preserve the current building layout at KCI Airport is trying another tack to halt major changes at the complex.

Some of those who fight the making of methamphetamine in Kansas City don’t think the perils are clearly understood, by the public or by those who are manufacturing it.

The “beginning” of a long process, is the way Kansas City Mayor Sly James describes work of a panel  he has set up to study future use of KCI Airport.

The group includes a strong critic of the current plan for a single terminal.

Kansas City Mayor Sly James  has appointed a 24 member panel to  study the city’s airport needs into the future.

The man charged with killing a little girl, her mother and two men appeared for a first time in court today at Ottawa, Kansas.  The defendant said practically nothing.

Kansas City’s anti-crime NOVA program was shifted into a higher gear today as federal  prosecutors  took charge of 61 grand jury indictments.

Investigators fear the worst peril to the missing 18-month-old toddler whose mother is among three Kansas murder victims.

More is being learned about three people found murdered in rural Franklin County, Kansas and a missing 18-month-old girl.

Identities of three people found murdered on a rural acreage near Ottawa, Kansas remain a public mystery.  Friends of a couple who lived there initially found two bodies.  

The most recent discovery adds up to two men and a woman, dead.

Without names, Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards would not say whether the female victim is a missing Olathe woman. 

Olathe Police say 22-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her one and a half year old daughter were reported missing May 3, last seen nearly a week earlier. 

It may take a week to ten days to learn how and why a woman fell from a party bus into I-35 traffic near the Kansas-Missouri state line and was killed Saturday night.

In  announcing it would add 2,000 jobs to its Claycomo Assembly Plant, Ford Motor cited increased  sales tied to new stability in the home building market.   At the truck factory, Ford executives drew parallels that are being seen industry-wide.

One of the most poorly kept secrets in the auto industry was completely revealed Thursday. Ford Motor Company will add some 2,000 jobs at its Kansas City Assembly Claycomo plant.