CSW BREAKING; Two-Alarm Apartment Building Fire in Midtown KC-MO

Eleven companies of KC-MO firefighters are battling a fire in a 3-story apartment building in the 4100 block of Troost Avenue.

The alarm sounded at 8:21 p.m. for 5 companies- and when those first fire crews arrived at 8:24 p.m. fire could be seen at the "rear" of the "3-story" building.

Three additional companies were sent to the scene at 8:25 p.m.- and a 2nd-alarm was sounded for 3 more companies at 8:33 p.m..


Occupancy status of the building or any injuries have not yet been reported- and the fire was "under control" at 8:38 p.m. with "3" handlines being used.

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CSW BREAKING: Body Found Near The Missouri River and I-635

The KC-KS Police department reports finding a body around 3:35 p.m. near the Missouri river and the Interstate-635 bridge.

The KC-KS Fire department was also summonded at 4:15 p.m. to help police remove the unknown-age male- who had been decapitated-  from the scene.

Police aren't- at least initially- investigating this as a homicide.

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Kansas City Metro-MetroRegion Weather: Snow Saturday?

Sorry- now I'M asking readers weather-forecast questions like the TV people do their viewers...


The answer is: it LOOKS like snow- or like frozen wintery-type precipitation this coming Saturday evening into Sunday morning.

The images shown here are GFS weather-model forecast maps for Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at midnight- showing an intensifying low-pressure system in Missouri- wrapping-around more cold air and possibly snow into the K.C. MetroRegion and Metro.

Note particularily the blue- 0-degree Centigrade or 32-degree Fahrenheit line and the green-shaded precipitation area as it is in relation to Kansas City and our surrounding MetroRegion.

It shows us to be at or below 32-degrees and in the soup.

How much snow is really too early to tell with any certainty- but if the map scenario holds up- at least several inches are possible here in Kansas City.

Stay tuned- as I'm watching developing weather situation this closely.... 

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Kansas City's AM 'Talk-Radio' Hasn't Changed

For the first time in many- MANY years- I tuned into a K.C. AM talk-radio station- KMBZ- to hear Mr. Glenn Stevens- the man who MegaCorportation Walmart has accused of crimes Mr. Stevens never committed.


Once again- if I turned-down either the endless commercials AND/OR the endless host chatter- I would have missed the approximately 3 minutes total that I actually HEARD Glenn Stevens talk.


KMBZ should SERIOUSLY consider hiring Denver talk-radio host Rick Barber.

Rick's a political pragmatist who actually lets his guests- and the people who call in- TALK!


I'm behind the Stevens family 150%- but the next K.C. talk show they're on I'll catch in later- Net-downloadable podcasts that I can edit-out the commercials and the too-chatty hosts.

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Edwardsville KS Cop Charged With Sex Crimes

And apparently- this guy's still on the Edwardsville PD force.

The BONNER SPRINGS (KS) CHIEFTAIN reports that 31-year-old Edwardsville Police Officer Nathan Pryer has been charged in the Johnson County (KS) District court with "one felony count of aggravated sexual battery and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery."


Makes one wonder if they were the victim of a sex crime in Edwardsville- who do you call?

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Eudora Building 'Delayed-' Shouldn't Lawrence KS' Memorial Hospital Be Investing In Level-1 Trauma Treatment?

Last Sunday morning- CSW reports two traumatic injury patients- one stabbed the other shot- showing up at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.


In that report- I note that the 2 patients are transferred to other hospitals with more advanced trauma care.


Lawrence Memorial Hospital is not a high-level trauma care medical facility- yet- LMH has $2.5-million to invest in a Eudora medical building whose construction- according to this story in The EUDORA (KS) NEWS- has "been delayed until March." 

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Fourth Restaurant Closes in KC-MO's Heavily Taxpayer-Subsidized Power and Light District

You HAVE to read the cheerleading spin that a spokesperson gives the latest restaurant closing in KC-MO's $10-15 million per year taxpayer-subsidized party hole the Power & Light District.

First off- The Peachtree location at the P&L closed Monday.


Nick Benjamin- "executive director" of the District- told the KANSAS CITY BUSINESS JOURNAL that "We are extremely sorry to see any business not succeed; although it is an unfortunate fact of life in a project with over 50 businesses in this challenging economic environment that some will not make it” and "The record of success of our tenants compares very favorably with any other similar district both in this market and nationally.”


Maybe the sky is NOT falling- but gravity is simply increasing....

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Next Johnson County Crime Sweep- Pot-Growing Hookers

Crime is rampant in The Land of Ilk & Money- er- I mean Milk & Honey- Johnson County KS...

Yesterday it was announced that more than 2-dozen people were apprehended by JoCo Law and charged with some-sort of participation in prostitution.

Last week- it was busting people growing marijuana in their homes.

CSW had learned from an unreliable source that JoCo Law's next sting involves pot-growing hookers.


Stay tuned- or tune us out for more details....

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Editor (Needed) Wanted: Record-Length Pregnant Woman in Topeka KS Crash

Most women are ready for childbirth after 9 months- but- if this storyline from last night's TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL is to be believed- a woman suffering a record-setting length of gestation also suffered injuries in a Topeka car crash.


At least the gaffe was corrected in this morning's edition of the CJ Online....

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Central States News: Son of Assistant University of Colorado Coach Found Dead in Garden City KS College Dormitory

Last Saturday- 19-year-old DeVaughn C. Levy of Englewood CO was found dead in his dorm room at the Garden City Community college- according to an Associated Press and TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL report.


DeVaughn was reportedly the son of C.U. assistant football coach Darian Hagan.

Garden City police do not suspect foul play in Levy's death.

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Original NFL Monday Night Football Color Man- 'Dandy Don' Meredith Dead at Age 72

The Kansas City Chiefs were the World Champions when NFL football made it's regular TV prime-time debut on "Monday Night Football" on the ABC television network in the fall of 1970.



One of the original TV booth triumvirate was the colorful- ex-Dallas Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith and I'm sad to report this Monday morning that "Dandy Don" as many of us called him has passed away in New Mexico of a brain hemorrhage.

Don Meredith was 72.

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Besides Fingering Innocent People- Wal-Mart Has Other Legal Issues on Their Plate

Some might say- awe come-on Wal-Mart is ALL AMERICAN!  Except for most of the products they sell- you MIGHT say that...

While the Glenn Stevens story continues to snowball and bruise the image of the MegaCorporation- Wal-Mart faces a U.S. Supreme Court review of the class-action suit against them that alleges Wal-Mart pays and promotes women employees less than men employees.


Like the Glenn Stevens family- we wish all the women in the class-action good luck....

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NFL-AFC Team Standings As of 7 PM Sunday Evening

Hell yeah- I can do sports too!

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Lawrence KS Violence Sunday Morning

Not all the shootings and stabbings happen within 10 miles of downtown KC-MO... 

Lawrence Fire-Douglas County EMS were spared calls when two victims of a shooting and a stabbing were driven to  the Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH) emergency room early Sunday.


Lawrence police investigated a large disturbance outside Liberty Hall at 644 Massachusetts St. just after 1:30 a.m.- where a man who had been stabbed multiple times had left the area.

That man- a 20-year-old- later showed up at LMH- was given life-stabilizing treatment for his wounds- then transported by ambulance to K.U. Med Center in KC-KS..

Then about an hour later at 2:30 a.m.- a call is received from the emergency room of LMH that a male victim of a gunshot wound to his abdomen had arrived there.

The injury was from a reported shooting at the South Pointe Apartments in the 2300 block of West 26th Street.

The 23-year-old man's injuries were serious to critical- and he was also transferred to another higher-level trauma center- in Topeka.

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A Child is Born - In a Cass County MO Convenience Store Restroom

Years from today- some child may ask their mother "Where was I born?"


The mother of the child born at 2:17 a.m. Sunday morning December 5, 2010 near Harrisonville MO may struggle a bit to word her answer to such a question.

At 2:16 a.m.- EMS personnel from the Central Cass County Fire Protection District responded to a call of "an active child birth in the bathroom" of a convenience store just west of the Missouri-7 junction with U.S. 71 highway- just south of Harrisonville.

Before the CCCFPD medics could get there- the infant had- at 2:18 a.m.- reportedly "been delivered" at the store.

Initially it was reported the unknown-gender-to-me newborn was "not breathing."


However medics quickly arrived and assisted the child to normal breathing and the mother and her infant were transported non-emergency to Research Medical Center.

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Blue Springs MO Police Standoff With Armed Man Is Over

A man armed with at least one firearm who was in a residence and refused to come out and talk to police surrended without incident Sunday morning.


The incident was in the area of Rockwood and Keystone streets and the incident ended at 7:44 a.m.- about 2 hours after police first surrounded the residence for a yet-undetermined reason.

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Gladstone MO Man Near Death After Fall Onto Glass Coffeetable

A man reported by Gladstone-EMS to be in his-early 50's- was taken to a Northland medical trauma center with a likely-mortal stab wound after he reportedly fell onto a galss coffeetable and broke it.

A 4-inch deep laceration into his chest and bleeding-out- the man also allegedly went undiscovered by a wife for at least 10 minutes prior to police and EMS getting the call to the 4100 block of Northeast 57th Place shortly after 6 a.m. Sunday morning.  
 

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Gladstone Public Safety officers were investigating- but indications are that this was a possible accident.

CSW BREAKING: 1-Vehicle Fatality Crash Closes Northbound I-435 at Eastwood Tafficway in KC-MO

At 12:43 a.m.- Kansas City MO's emergency services- police- fire and EMS- responded to a reported 1-vehicle crash on northbound I-435 on the slope between Eastwood Trafficway and Raytown Road - the Truman Sports Complex exit.

Police arrived at 12:50 a.m. and said the car was on-fire- one confirmed fatality.

Extrication was performed on a critically-injured passenger in a vehicle which had struck another. 

The dead driver- identified by police as 35-year-old Jeff Gregory of Independence- was ejected from the vehicle.

No one in the vehicle struck was hurt.

I-435 northbound was closed for almost 3 hours while officers from the KC-MO PD traffic unit investigated the crash.


At least 4 people have died during the midnight hour this weekend- two from a shooting incident and 2 fatal crashes.

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Blogger 'South Kansas City Observer' Joins Fight For Justice for Glenn and Irene Stevens

More and more Metro Kansas City and Central States citizens are becoming aware of and joining the fight against Walmart and inept law enforcement agencies attempting to railroad Raymore MO's Glenn Stevens for thefts from Walmart that Mr. Stevens did not commit.


The latest blogger to join the crusade is "The South Kansas City Observer."

Even though I haven't met 'The Observer' or simply 'T.O.-' I consider her a friend and ally against any and all wrongs and injustices we come across.


Please read T.O.'s post about Glenn Stevens- and please join us BOYCOTTING WALMART until that MegaCorporation quits making criminals out of innocent Americans like Glenn Stevens! 

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CSW BREAKING: Mobile Home Fire in KC-MO Northland

Just before 7 a.m. Saturday morning- five companies of the Kansas City MO Fire Department got the call of a mobile home on fire in the Lakeview Trailer park.

The fire is in a mobile home in the 1200 block of Northwest Lakeview- and when the first fire company arrives at 7:02 a.m. they report "everyone out" of the trailer- but a "working fire."

Two handlines are being used on the fire that was reported "under control" at 7:10 a.m..

No injuries have been reported as of 7:15 a.m..

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Not related- at 7:10 a.m.- six companies of the KC-KS Fire department have been sent to the Owens-Corning plant at 300 Sunshine Road.

Dispatch tells responding companies at 7:13 a.m. that this is "an oven on-fire on the west side of the building."

Shortly after that- Pumper 15 arrives- reporting "nothing showing."

No further on this- I've been slammed since midnight and now I'm off-duty and going to bed.

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Fatal Vehicle Crash on I-35 in Johnson County KS

Interstate 35 was closed almost 3 hours early Saturday morning after a 1-vehicle crash on the southbound side just north of 75th Street.

The call was dispatched at 12:34 a.m.- and when emergency crews arrived-  they reported "one unconscious" person at that scene- later reporting that patient deceased..


The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that  44-year-old Troy Keith Downs of KC-MO was in a 2006 Honda when he lost control of the vehicle- overcorrected and crashed into the concrete median divider.

Mr. Downs reportedly was not wearing a seatbelt.

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Four Victims in Midtown KC-MO Shooting

The incident was reported to KC-MO emergency services at 12:06 a.m. Saturday morning- four people shot in a vehicle on 36th Street just east of Woodland in Midtown KC-MO..

One victim died at the scene- according to police.

Three other victims- all males in the 20's- were taken to 2 Metro K.C. hospitals with injuries ranging from serious to critical.

Police found "numerous shell casings" at the shooting scene and say the shooter left westbound on 36th Street from Woodland in a black- newer-model General Motors product with tinted windows.

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Metro Kansas City Neighborhood Christmas Displays No. 2 - Chicago Street in Blue Springs

One of the Metro's longest-running Christmas light displays on the Missouri side is a neighborhood project on Chicago and surrounding neighborhood streets in Blue Springs

(Photo by Adam Vogler- Courtesy of The I-BS-GV EXAMINER)

I first saw this display in the late 1980's and- according to this story from the INDEPENDENCE- BLUE SPRINGS- GRAIN VALLEY EXAMINER- the display has been an annual affair since 1982.

The lights go on Thanksgiving Day and run through New Year's Eve- from 5:30 p.m. to midnight daily.

Donations are taken- but not required at a booth at the end of the display on 1st Street- with the proceeds going to Blue Springs charities.

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CSW Images: KC-MO Power-Light District on an Early December Day

Fighting a massive weekday traffic jam and the huge crowds in this $10-15-million-a-year civic masterpiece- I still managed to squeeze-off a few photos.

This is on 14th Street- looking east from Main

At least the old Empire Theater- now the Mainstreet Theater- looks good!

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Traffic-Meter Signal Needed at Westbound I-435 Ramp From U.S. 69 and Quivira

On occasion- we go visit my brother "Zeppo" and his family who live in Olathe during a weekday and- in what will be decreasing occasions- it's around the evening "drive (park)-time."


Visits at those times will be decreasing- because westbound I-435 west of U.S. 69 becomes a gas-guzzling parking lot.

We notice all the traffic-metering signals on the I-435 ramps going EASTBOUND- but apparently KDoT ignores the westbound mess.

Look at this image taken from an Overland Park Traffic Dept. camera looking south on Quivira at I-435 and notice all the vehicles lined up to turn onto the westbound I-435 ramp from Quivira.

Also note- this image was screen-capped just after 1 p.m. Friday afternoon- several hours before the evening commute!

We've noted the several times we're trapped in the westbound mess- that letting drivers in who have exited off of U.S. 69 OR Quivira is often a mistake- for those drivers take advantage of our consideration letting them in line- just to hold up the line trying to merge into the farther left 2 lanes.

In fact- this is much of the reason the far right lane of westbound I-435 past U.S. 69 comes to a standstill and barely moves- people merging in- then waiting to merge further left.

Hey KDoT- how about some of those traffic-metered signals on the WESTBOUND side of I-435 out there.

In addition- eastbound I-435 traffic merging into the southbound I-35 ramp at the big fly-over don't seem to know what YIELD signs mean- creating an even bigger mess.


We'll just restrict our visits until evening AFTER 6:30 p.m.- or on weekends I guess until traffic engineers get a clue.

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Denver's John Elway Gets Taken in a Ponzi Scheme- Gets Mad at Reporter

Al Lewis is a financial reporter for the Dow Jones Newswire- formerly in the same capacity with a Denver newspaper- and does a monthly show with KOA-850 AM's Rick Barber in Denver.

Al recently reported that the former Denver Bronco quarterback John Elway lost tens of millions of dollars to a Bernie Madoff wanna-be Sean Mueller and when Mr. Lewis gracefully tried to get a statement and/or interview from Mr. Elway on the matter- the former quarterback was less than graceful to Mr. Lewis.  

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KC-MO Police Rule Westport Death of Man- Brian Euston- Is A Homicide

Your "news captain-" who works for the news department of a Kansas City television station (KSHB) monitoring weekend overnight news happenings- was on-duty the morning of October 10 when I heard the first report of a man who had suffered a head injury in Westport.

The report of that incident went to the station in my early-morning updates- and the story I compiled for this blog can be found HERE.

It's reported over the next few days that Mr. Euston had been out drinking with friends- and they had parted ways not long before Brian was found lying on the sidewalk with his mortal injuries by Westport security officers.

Speculation went from Mr. Euston simply falling and suffering his soon-fatal skull fracture- to being knocked down by someone.

Incredibly- it was reported even later that week that someone of questionable humanity had actually taken cellphone pictures/video of Mr. Euston laying prone and unconscious on the sidewalk- possibly even of the low-life(s) who knocked Brian down- and posted them on the Internet.

As the police began seriously investigating this incident- those images were removed from the place(s) they were posted.

Now- the police are calling Brian Euston's death "a homicide-" and detectives are seeking the "person or persons" who took the photos/videos.

I have been made aware too that some blogger has made Euston's death "a race issue."


The coward or cowards who took the images of Brian Euston need to step up and fess up.


The blogger making this- the death of A HUMAN BEING a race issue- needs to shut up.  

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CSW BREAKING: House Fire With Rescues- Injuries in Lee's Summit MO

The fire was reported in a residence in the Raintree Lake subdivision just after 8:30 p.m. Thursday night.


Police and fire crews responded to the 4400 block of Southwest Rivulet- and when Pumper 5 and police arrived at 8:35 p.m.- they pulled 3 people from the burning house.

The injuries to those 3 people rescued are not indicated to be critical- two of those victims are children and one is an adult.

The fire- said by LSFD to be "in the 1st-floor living room-kitchen area" was reported "under control" at 8:53 p.m. and "out" at 8:57 p.m..


EMS crews transported "a 2-year-old" and a "3-year-old female(s)" to Children's Mercy Hospital- and a "30-year-old female who had to be rescued from a 2nd-story window" to Truman Med Center- Hospital Hill.

All had suffered "smoke inhalation-" but were in fair to good condition.


There has yet been no determination of the fire's cause.

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Glenn Stevens- Raymore MO Man Wrongly Accused by Walmart and Versailles MO Police- Has A Blog

EVERY news media organization in America- certainly every news media outlet in Metro Kansas City- should be reporting the story of Raymore resident Glenn Stevens.


To my knowledge- ONLY KCTV-5- WDAF-4 and The KANSAS CITY STAR have bothered to report the injustice that is being perpetrated upon Mr. Stevens by MegaCorporation Walmart and Versailles and Morgan County MO law enforcement officials.

At any rate- Mr. Stevens' family has started a blog to keep us HIGHLY CONCERNED CITIZENS abreast of this bizarre case of an innocent man being railroaded by either stupid or VERY highly-misguided people.


Click HERE for the blog "Glenn Stevens Is Innocent" and please-

JOIN OUR COMPLETE BOYCOTT OF WALMART and VERSAILLES- MORGAN COUNTY MO until Mr. Stevens and his family receive apologies and re-compensation for their monetary losses and peace of mind!

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CSW BREAKING: Eleven Displaced in KC-MO House Fire

The KC-MO Fire Department reports that eleven people- "2 adults and 9 children-" are homeless after a fire in their house near the Jazz District.

The alarm sounded at 5:04 p.m. for a house fire in the 2000 block of East 24th Street and when Pumper 10 arrived at 5:08 p.m.- smoke was reported coming from the 2nd-floor of the 2-1/2-story house.

Two handlines were used on the flames which were brought under control within 10 minutes of Pumper 10's arrival.


No one is reportedly hurt in this incident- and the Red Cross is enroute to provide the occupants assistance with temporary housing.

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Help (Needed) Wanted: Editors at Kansas City STAR

Note the following screen capture from a K.C. STAR story posted on their Website concerning a pot-growing bust in The People's Republic(rat) of Johnson County KS:

I thought "professional grade black power" went out with the Black Panthers in the 1970's....

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CSW BREAKING: Person Found Not Breathing in A Leavenworth KS Alley

Police- fire and EMS crews are tending to- as well as investigating- a person found not breathing in an alley in the 500 block of Miami in Leavenworth.

Emergency crews were called to the scene just after 12:35 p.m.- and as of yet- EMS has not transported that person to any medical facility.


There was no other information immediately available on this incident.

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CSW BREAKING: Large Water and Gas Main Break in KC-MO

Several KC-MO Fire department companies- as well as the KC-MO Police department are on the scene of what is reported as "a large" water main break that has apparently also caused a gas line to leak at 12th Street and Belmont Avenue.

Both 12th Street and Belmont have been closed- and at least several homes and businesses in this area have been evacuated.

Emergency crews are awaiting both the Water Department as well as the Gas Service company crews to shut of the affected lines

This incident was dispatched by the fire department at 10:49 a.m. and the water department was notified shortly thereafter.

However- it has taken more than 90 minutes (12:26 p.m.) for a Water department "representative to arrive.



The situation was reportedly resolved without further incident or injury by 3 p.m.Thursday afternoon.

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