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Jurors have recommended the maximum sentences for his convictions in the deaths of Jessica Runions and Kara Kopetsky.

Yust took the witness stand in his own defense, blaming his deceased half-brother for the killings.

After almost two weeks of testimony, Kylr Yust took the stand and accused his half-brother of killing the two women.

Residents from Platte, Jackson, Clay and Cass counties elected public school board members and Kansas City voters overwhelmingly renewed that city's 1% earnings tax.

Advocates in Belton concerned about their neighbors, who live in camps surrounding the city, are frustrated officials have not built a permanent shelter.

For KCUR's ongoing series "The Next Normal," hear stories of people who have been unexpectedly laid off and worrying about mortgages, food and medical bills as Congress plays politics over federal pandemic unemployment assistance.

The bureau said that Timothy Wilson was planning to bomb a Kansas City area hospital, later revealed in court records to be Belton Regional Medical Center.

In this episode, Suzanne digs into the sacred geometry and mysterious happenings surrounding a giant octagon in Belton, Missouri.

FBI officials say a man they shot and killed Tuesday in Belton was the suspect in a "long-running domestic terrorism investigation" who planned to attack…

The fourth grader in Amanda Whiting’s chair had never been to the dentist, so she was a little nervous to be seen at the clinic at her school, J.A. Rogers…

More than 2 million people live in the Kansas City metro, on either side of the state line. They live in urban, suburban and rural communities, and in…

The Latino community in Belton, Missouri, once a military and farming community, is growing.Today, almost 10 percent of Belton’s 24,000 residents are…