Jean Peters Baker

After vandals defaced the statue downtown, Jackson County Executive Frank White said it is time to remove it and the one in Independence

Eric J. DeValkenaere, who has been suspended from the Kansas City police force, remains free on a $30,000 bond.

Lamb, 26, was seated in his pickup truck as he was backing into his garage when he was shot to death.

The number of homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, is on track to break records. Jackson County's top prosecutor says police and prosecutors can't stem the tide alone.

The Jackson County prosecutor discusses a climbing homicide count in Kansas City, how COVID-19 is changing summer travel plans, and the rise in demand for home delivery services.

This story was updated at 4:55 p.m.Days before Missouri holds its Democratic presidential primary, former Vice President Joe Biden has a slim lead over…

Missouri lawmakers are at odds on how to solve the spike in gun violence and gun deaths in urban areas across the state, discussing it this week in the…

Updated at 5 p.m. MondayTwo people died and 15 were injured in a shooting late Sunday outside of a nightclub near U.S. 40 and Noland Road in Kansas…

By the end of 2019, police expect 150 homicides in Kansas City, most at the point of a gun. Authorities say another 500 people will be shot and…

On Friday, when Jerry Bausby got two life sentences for the sexual assault and murder of his 18-year-old daughter, it was the culmination of three years…

Jackson County Executive Frank White Thursday blasted the audit of the COMBAT anti-crime tax commissioned by the prosecutor's office. "Unlike numerous…

Jean Peters Baker has been the Jackson County Prosecutor since 2011, and she's often in the news, but usually talking about everything but herself. Today…