Dan Verbeck

Kansas City, Mo. – There is no obvious fix, as American Airlines' KCI overhaul base has been shaved to the bone.' It will close next September. Kansas City will still be paid rent of $1.1 Million a year for more than a decade, as required by contract.

Kansas City, MO – It's not officially confirmed, but an announcement is expected today that the once-huge KCI overhaul base, started by TWA in the 1950's, will close next year.

A group of Kansas City leaders met with American Airlines officials yesterday but refused on the record comment.

The base has dwindled in size as American moved more and more of it's overhaul functions to a Tulsa, Oklahoma repair base and its newest repair base at company headquarters in Texas.

Jefferson City, Mo. – A little girl from St. Martins, Mo., missing nearly two days has been found dead in a deep stand of woods. And an older boy has been arrested.

Elizabeth Olten told parents on a cell phone she was walking home from neighbors Wednesday late afternoon. She vanished. Electronics technicians were able to detect 'pings' from her phone for a time but they faded. The search had been joined by F.B.I. agents, Missouri Highway Patrol troopers and volunteers.

Kansas City, MO – Residents were so eager swine flu vaccines the lines to clinics burgeoned with hundreds of people in some locations.

The swine flu vaccine is available in limited amounts right now, but it didn't shorten the line at Platte County's Health department office in Parkville.

Dozens stood and waited and shuffled along yesterday. High risk residents have priority now, pregnant women, the young, the old and those who work in the medical field.

Kansas City, Mo. – A disturbing report from a national child-abuse-watchdog group ranks Missouri with an alarmingly high rate for deaths from neglect.

Data indicates five children die every day in the United States from neglect or abuse. Missouri was fifth highest in the nation in those types of deaths in 2007. That's the most recent year the study was compiled.

Kansas City, MO – After a week long trial in Wyandotte County District Court, an 18 year old Kansas City Kansan has been found guilty of murdering a younger teenage boy.

A jury found Patricio Briseno guilty of first degree murder in the February shooting southwest of Kansas City Kansas' downtown district.

Bullets killed 13 year old Central Middle School student Ricardo Zamora and wounded another teenager. Investigators thought the shooting was a result of violent gang interplay and rivalries.

Kansas City, Mo. – Western Union wire services carried more than a third of a million dollars from Kansas City to China in 2005 and 2006. Wire transfers are common transactions, but these came from an uncommon source: massage parlors.

Kansas City, MO – A 23-year-old Kansas City, North woman has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault after allegedly dropping her toddler from an apartment balcony.

Bond is set at a hundred thousand dollars for Callie Smith who was arrested late last week in the September 22nd fray.

Police accounts contend Smith had been damaging cars around the Northeast 79th Street apartments and running naked through a parking lot.

Kansas City, MO – A Jackson County Circuit Court jury has convicted a man of first degree murder in a wild shooting spree inside a South Kansas City nightclub close to Highway 71.

27-year-old Sylvester Sisco II of Raytown faces a life prison term on his conviction in the murder of Jacon Briggs inside the Filling Station club.

It happened after closing time at the dance club only a few blocks from the South Patrol Police Station.

Kansas City, MO – Western Union wire services carried more than a third of a million dollars between metro Kansas City and China in 2005 and 2006.

They were common transactions from an uncommon source. The proceeds came from massage parlors. Within the last week, the entire operation has been laid-bare and settled in court. KCUR's Dan Verbeck has a deeper look at the story.

Kansas City, MO – A new Wizards soccer stadium and Cerner Corporation office park is closer to becoming reality with an offer from the Kansas Commerce Secretary. It adds up to nearly $230 million in incentives.

Five weeks ago the Unified Government of Wyandotte County asked for $155 million in help from the STAR Bond program. The offer yesterday is ten million dollars short of that but includes $85 million in cash incentives and state tax credits.

Kansas City, MO – A woman avoids what could have been a forty year prison term for her guilty plea to operating a lucrative massage parlor prostitution ring in Johnson County Kansas. The sentencing judge disagreed with the prosecution's characterization of the crime.

Kansas city, MO – A Kansas City Federal District Court judge is scheduled to sentence a woman who is described in court records as chief operator of a sizeable prostitution ring, using dozens of women recruited from China.

Investigators say women forced to work in the Olathe and Overland Park massage parlors were under constant surveillance video cams.

They performed from 9 in the morning to 11 at night seven days a week. Many had their identities stolen to prevent their escape. 46 year old Ling Xu will be sentenced Wednesay.

Kansas City, Mo. – Two Chinese citizens have each been sentenced to five years in U.S. prison for their role in a large prostitution operation in Johnson County Kansas.

According to court documents, dozens of women were recruited from China to work under what are described as slave labor conditions at massage parlors in Overland Park and Olathe. Thirty seven year old Zhong Yan Liu and 23 year old Cheng Tang were ordered to prison.

The men apologized in Kansas City Missouri Federal District Court.