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A judge in St. Louis ruled on Tuesday that Lamar Johnson should be freed after two people provided testimony that absolved Johnson in the 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd.

Kansas City's new crime prevention program, Partners for Peace, brings together social service providers and local law enforcement with the hopes of reducing the city's homicide rate.

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says that millions of dollars in revenue could be generated if voters in April approve taxes on recreational marijuana and short-term rentals. But how would that money be used?

A hearing for two men convicted of a 1997 murder once again focuses on whether Roger Golubski coerced a witness into falsely testifying and whether he fed crucial information to the victim’s family.

The 14-year-old was one of six teens charged in the death of 19-year-old Marco Cardino, in what appears to have been a marijuana deal gone awry at Black Bob Park.

Six juveniles are facing felony murder charges after a killing in Black Bob Park in Olathe. The Johnson County district attorney is seeking to try four of them — all 14-years old — as adults, an exceedingly uncommon occurrence in Kansas.

Six teens are facing felony murder charges after a killing in Black Bob Park in Olathe. The Johnson County District Attorney is seeking to try four of them as adults — but in Kansas, it’s exceedingly uncommon for 14-year-olds to be prosecuted as adults.

Over the course of a few months in 2002, nine patients at a hospital in Chillicothe, Missouri, died under unexplained circumstances. Now, a prosecutor has charged a former hospital employee with murdering one of them.

El 25 de abril, un año después de que fuera asesinada a tiros, KCUR recuerda a la reportera Aviva Okeson-Haberman. Como en muchos casos de homicidio en Kansas City, nadie ha sido acusado de su muerte.

La organización sin fines de lucro Common Good de KC ofrece subsidios a las víctimas del crimen de delitos para ayudar a las familias a hacer frente a los gastos funerarios. El dinero procede de un fondo de $250.000 dólares recaudados por donadores anónimos

The nonprofit KC Common Good is offering grants to help the families of crime victims deal with the expense of funeral costs. The money comes from a $250,000 fund collected from anonymous donors.

St. Louis and Kansas City both have programs meant to recognize and interrupt conflicts before they escalate to violence, but the results are very different.