Showing posts with label Overnight News Report 051907. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News and Weather Report - Saturday, May 19, 2007

**K.C., MO. POLICE INVESTIGATE OVERNIGHT STABBING**

MAST reports a male in his 40's received 2 life-threatening stab wounds to the back around 2:20 am.
The crime occurred in the 1200 block of East Independence Avenue.
Police were seeking the suspect who left the scene: a light-skinned, short-haired black male - about 5-feet 11-inches in height and in his mid-30's.
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*VEHICULAR INCIDENTS CAUSE SERIOUS INJURIES TO FEMALES IN K.C. AND GRANDVIEW, MO. *
A woman in her 20's was reportedly struck by a vehicle in the 3800 block of North Spruce around 2:25 am Saturday morning.
A MAST paramedic said she had head and other injuries and was intoxicated - as they sped with their lights and siren to a nearby trauma center.
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A 1-car wreck on southbound U.S. 71 about a quarter-mile north of Missouri-150 just after 3 am seriously injured a woman and lesser-injured a male.
Southbound U.S. 71 was closed at 140th Street by Grandview police for nearly an hour.
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*RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE FIRES IN KC-MO & OVERLAND PARK, KS.*
The first incident was in OP-KS just after midnight - fire in a 2nd-story bedroom on one side of a duplex in the 8500 block of Grant.
The occupant escaped uninjured and the fire was out in about 20 minutes. Careless smoking is suspected.
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KC-MO fire investigators are checking for the suspicious cause of a fire in an apartment building in the 5700 block of St. John at 3:22 am..
The blaze itself was fairly small and under control within 10 mintes. Smoke from the fire sent one resident to a hospital - the only person displaced by the fire.
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***OVERNIGHT WEATHER***

Skies remained clear, winds light and of a southerly component and temperature that fell into the lower to mid-50's at dawn was MetroRegion overnight weather.
A slow warm-up - but no precipitation - will prevail both today and Sunday.
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First with Kansas City Metro- Region Breaking News - KSHB NBC41 ACTION NEWS.
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