Jean Peters Baker

Derrick D. Wren Jr., 28, was charged Wednesday with shooting three-year-old Marcus Haislip III in May 2017. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker urged people to find other ways to resolve conflicts than “to pick up a gun.”

The number of fatal crashes in Kansas City involving marijuana has doubled in the last two years. Kansas City police are worried that a de-emphasis on marijuana possession enforcement could keep the number high.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker dismissed 31 counts against a towing company owner after audio surfaced of Brad Lemon, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, threatening criminal action if a family car wasn't immediately released.

The officer is charged with using excessive force against the teenager, who pleaded ‘I can’t breathe.’

Lucas says planning for the violence prevention framework has been in the works for nearly a year, but some neighborhood groups say the announcement took them by surprise.

It is not just homicides that are vexing Kansas City police. Non-fatal shootings are up 26% year-to-year, according to KCPD data. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says casework is filed in only 19% of those attacks. She calls that "a pathetically small number."

The killing of 4-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot while asleep in his bed, is among the many violent crimes during a summer of record-breaking homicides and heartbreak.

Coleman, a fierce advocate for young sexual assault survivors, took her own life on Tuesday. “She was so brave but she was tired and scared,” her mother wrote on Facebook.

The two officers were indicted in May on misdemeanor charges in the beating of Breona “Briya” Hill, but a grand jury upped the charges to felonies after two law enforcement trainers said the officers’ actions weren’t justified.

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.