Cass County

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.

The prosecution and defense presented opening arguments Monday in the trial of Kylr Yust who is accused of murdering two young women whose disappearances occurred 10 years apart.

According to an AP report, 1 in 8 Americans live in a county whose health department leader has left the job during the pandemic.

Kansas and Missouri are losing public health workers to pandemic burnout, and the Lansing correctional facility is the future site of a career campus providing returning citizens with opportunities before and upon their release.

As Missouri and Kansas move through the phases of their vaccine distribution plans, local counties are allowing residents to sign up to be notified when they're eligible.

Area theater owners are innovating and adapting to stay open during the pandemic, Raymore-Peculiar School District's new superintendent on the return to school as COVID-19 spreads, and a forecast on the possibility of college football games happening this fall.

The local health department estimates up to 400 people attended the July 3 event but with no guest list that’s made tracking the virus’s spread difficult.

Missouri and Kansas police departments have received millions of dollars in military-grade hardware over the years, but that practice is under scrutiny amid ongoing protests.

As stay-at-home orders begin to ease metro-wide, Kansas City’s health department has 19 workers tracing contacts of people who've had coronavirus. It needs an estimated 75 to 150 such workers.