Category: Nation

KANSAS CITY — Syrians in Kansas City are applauding the U.S. military strike Thursday, launched after a chemical weapons attack killed dozens of civilians in their native land. Fariz Turkmani In the last year, nearly 30 Syrian refugee families have resettled in the metro area, and Syrian-Americans such as Fariz Turkmani have been instrumental in helping them adapt to their

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City has a surprising connection to Hollywood. Known as the Barbecue Capital of the World, Paris on the Plains and City of Fountains — Kansas City has been the setting of several major movies. Kansas City is known for its Jazz, fountains, and barbecue, and it’s interesting to know Kansas City has always had ties

DETROIT — Charges are pending against a juvenile after a Michigan mother said a social media prank in which her 11-year-old son’s girlfriend faked her own suicide led the boy to take his own life. Katrina Goss said Thursday that she found her son, Tysen Benz, unresponsive March 14 in his room after seeing social media posts and texts that

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Jackson County jury on Friday found Ce-Antonyo D. Kennedy, 19, guilty in the 2015 Bay Water Park murder of Alexis Kane, 14. In addition to Murder 2nd Degree, the jury also found him guilty of Armed Criminal Action. Ce-Antonyo Kennedy Kennedy is the third of three co-defendants who has been convicted in the murder. A

Over the last couple of weeks there has been fierce debate in Washington, D.C. over which scandal is the “real” scandal. Democrats argue that the Russia-Trump connection story is the real story we should be focusing on. Republicans argue that the recently proven true story that the Obama administration had been spying on the Trump campaign (and then on the

SMITHVILLE, Mo. — Clay County prosecutors charged a 19-year-old man from Smithville with one count of statutory sodomy for allegedly molesting a 5-month-old boy. Brent R. Porter is accused of sexually assaulting the victim on Wednesday. Court documents say that a mom told investigators she changed her child’s diaper, and about five minutes later while she was outside smoking a

From the Daily Caller News Foundation: Initial damage assessments show President Donald Trump’s strike on an airbase in Syria Thursday likely destroyed the facility. Syrian government aircraft from the al-Shayrat airfield are reportedly responsible for Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack on a town in Syria’s Idlib province, which left approximately 72 people dead and possibly hundreds more injured. Two U.S. Navy

CASS COUNTY, Mo. — A mushroom hunter who found human remains in some Cass County woods on Monday described the disturbing discovery to FOX 4 on Friday. Investigators say the skull the hunter found belongs to Jessica Runions, a Raymore woman who had been missing for seven months. Investigators returned on Friday to the site near East 233rd and Y

CASS COUNTY, Mo. — Investigators think Friday will be their last day collecting evidence in a wooded area near E. 233rd Street and State Route Y, south of Belton, where the remains of two people were located early this week. Jessica, Kara and Kylr Yust One set of remains has been positively identified as Jessica Runions, 21, missing since September

Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump gave an impromptu press conference to explain why had decided to authorize the strike on a Syrian airfield just a few hours earlier. On Tuesday Syrian President Bashar al Assad launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children.