Maria Carter

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri's spent about $15 million so far this year to respond to natural disasters such as the deadly Joplin tornado and flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

A baby girl is home in Olathe after being treated for severe bites by her family's pet dog.

A report released this week doesn't paint a very rosy outlook for the economy in the Midwest and Plains states.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – While students in most states, including Kansas, showed improvement on a national test, Missouri students lost ground.

A proposal to eliminate the Kansas City Missouri school board won't be on the agenda at tonight's board meeting. But the state education commissioner has asked board members to replace themselves with a state appointed board, or risk a takeover in January.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Searchers yesterday recovered the bodies of three more people killed in Saturday's grain elevator blast in Atchison. Six people died in the explosion at the Bartlett Grain Company.

Kansas City police are looking for thieves who stole an estimated $12,000 worth of copper wiring and other metal items from a department radio tower.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Crews had to suspend the search yesterday for 3 missing workers in the grain elevator explosion in Atchison.

A commission examining the Kansas public pension system still must tackle the daunting issue of closing the system's long-term funding gap.

A former bookkeeper for a Wichita-based chain of radio stations is accused of mail fraud and wire fraud after authorities say he stole more than $2 million from LS Media.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City police have postponed interviews with the brothers of a missing baby at the family's request.

The same day Kansas published its permanent abortion licensing rules, two providers announced plans to challenge them in court.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture says sandwiches possibly tainted with deadly listeria have been widely distributed in Kansas.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Five gunshots hit a bus full of Southwest High School football players Friday night at the football field at the former Southeast High School.

A city council committee put off a decision on funding to operate the Kansas City animal shelter for another month yesterday, saying time was needed for some business leaders to explore a way to avoid taking the dollars from the general fund.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kemper arena's days may be numbered. The American Royal association and the Kemper family proposed yesterday that the 38-year-old arena named for the patriarch of the banking family be torn down.

Sprint Nextel reported its smallest quarterly loss in four years today, as it continued a turnaround and kept getting better at keeping and attracting customers.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City police say they've fielded about 200 calls from people certain they've spotted Lisa Irwin, the blond-haired baby with chubby cheeks who went missing three weeks ago. But so far, they've had no luck searching for the girl, who was 10 months old when she disappeared from her family's home.

Some Unified Government officials are worried about Wyandotte County's finances despite the apparent success of Kansas Speedway and Village West.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Expanding access to preschool is among the priorities of a group of Missouri school board members and superintendents.

A criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland park could be delayed because the state destroyed documents seen as important evidence.

Meetings begin this week on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plan for managing the Missouri River over the next year.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, or SRS, has officially signed a deal to keep the agency's Lawrence office open. City and county officials had to agree to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep the office running, but the state could again pick up the tab.

Another attempt will be made by Missouri lawmakers to scrap the state's presidential primary and replace it with a system of caucuses.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri's special legislative session may, in effect, be over, following actions in the Missouri Senate.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says Missouri officials expect to finalize billions of dollars of export agreements during an upcoming trade trip to China.

Governors from states along the Missouri River met in Nebraska to discuss how to manage the river and help prevent a repeat of this summer's flooding.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. –
The mother of missing baby Lisa Irwin says she had enough boxed wine to be drunk the night the child disappeared. (Read more)

There will soon be two separate groups looking at ways to make the Kansas tax system more business friendly.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas is shutting down most beds at Rainbow Mental Health, a local psychiatric hospital. Law enforcement and mental health leaders worry the state might one day shut down the facility.

Authorities say a Johnson County deputy fatally shot a man who was running away as he was being arrested.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's office wants to overhaul the way schools are funded in the state.

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. –

By Maria Carter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A new audit of the Kansas City Missouri school district shows a significant improvement in the district's operations and finances.

The leader of the Missouri Senate says he'll make one last-ditch effort to reach an agreement with the House on an economic development bill.

Kansas City actor Gary Holcombe - known for his dramatic, comic, and musical performances on many professional stages - died on Monday at the age of 66.