MetroRegion Kansas City's BREAKING NEWS: Train Kills Person In Cass County-MO

A person who was on the Kansas City Southern railroad tracks several miles north of Drexel-MO has been killed by a passing train early Sunday morning.

Cass county authorities report receiving the call at 12:49 am in the area of 319th Street and Davenport.

Dispatched ground and air EMS units were cancelled just after 1 am when it was determined the person hit by the train was dead on the scene.

The Missouri Highway Patrol is investigating this incident as an accident.

The victim's identity has not yet been released.

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Drivers In JoCo-KS K-10 Double-Fatality Crash Identified

The Kansas Highway Patrol has released the details on the head-on crash on K-10 east of Evening Star Road- first reported here at CSW Saturday morning.


The KHP says that Ms. Kara Louise Morgan- age 26 of Lawrence- was behind the wheel of a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta and was driving east in the westbound lanes of K-10 when she struck a westbound 2000 Toyota Camry being driven by Mr. Eric Tyler Sill- age 20 of Olathe-KS..


According to the original BREAKING NEWS post here- it took at least 30 minutes to free both drivers from the wreckage at at least one of them was declared dead at the scene.


CSW offers our condolences to the family and friends of both drivers.

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Lawrence-KS Police Investigate Saturday Morning Shooting

The incident occurred some time around 2 am Saturday morning when Lawrence police report getting a 9-1-1 hang-up call from the 900 block of Michigan.


When police arrived- a male victim of a shooting had already been taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital.

That victim has been transported by EMS to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City- and his condition was reported as serious to critical with gunshots to both legs.


Lawrence police are investigating....

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Metro Kansas City's BREAKING NEWS: Possible Double-Fatality Crash In Western Johnson County KS

The call was dispatched at 3:09 am- a reported 2-vehicle crash on westbound K-10 east of Evening Star Road.

When a JoCo sheriff's deputy arrived a minute later- she reported the drivers of both cars unconscious and trapped in their vehicles.

Emergency units from District 1 Fire and MEDACT-EMS responded- but one of the EMS units was cancelled before they arrived.

One victim had been extricated from the wreckage as of 3:30 am- but as of 4:10 am- neither patients had been transported to a hospital from this scene.

Westbound K-10 is closed east of the crash site as Kansas Highway Patrol and JoCo Sheriff investigators work the scene.


More details on KSHB-41 NBC Action News at 8 am....

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Honored Producer and Writer- Larry Gelbart- Dies

He was pivotal in the development- writing and production of the famed TV series M*A*S*H* in it's earlier years.

The Emmy-award winner also co-wrote and produced the motion pictures 'Tootsie' and 'Oh, God!.'

As "El Sig"- he chatted to his admirers- including yours truly- on the M*A*S*H* Internet newsgroup for years.

He had only recently been diagnosed with cancer.

Larry Gelbart- television and motion picture comedy writer and producer- died in his Beverly Hills-CA home today at age 81 according to the LOS ANGELES TIMES.

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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Shawnee-KS Drowning

As first reported exclusively here at CSW- Shawnee-KS emergency services were called out to 6709 Lackman around 2:15 pm on a report of a car that had been driven into a lake there.

The update as of 2:50 pm was a MEDACT-EMS said a male victim is in the submerged vehicle and that divers from Overland Park Fire are in the water attempting to locate him.

The victim reportedly possibly had some sort of medical emergency before the car accelerated into the lake from an apartment complex parking lot.


As of 3:02 pm- 2 searches by the OP-KS dive team have been apparently unable to locate the victim.

The search continues....

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Metro Kansas City's BREAKING NEWS: Possible Drowning Reported In Shawnee-KS

The call came out at 2:11 pm for Shawnee firefighters and MEDACT-EMS on a car into the lake (see Google SatMap image) and possible drowning at 6709 Lackman.


The vehicle apparently has sank into the lake and an Overland Park dive team has been summonded to the scene.




It's yet unknown the number of possible occupants in that vehicle.

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Beloit-KS Football Player Who Robbed Another Gets Probation

It's reported in the SALINA (KS) JOURNAL as "a hazing"- but reading the story it seems more of a humiliation and strong-armed school robbery of a Beloit freshman..



According to the SJ article- "The case involved a muscle-relaxant gel wiped on the body of a 14-year-old freshman football player, causing injuries, and the theft from the victim of a small amount of cash. The victim wasn't identified."


The crimes carry a "31-month" jail sentance- but one of the 2 offending Beloit seniors- Joe Studer- age 18- will likely just receive 2 years probation as well as suspension from any school sports or activities.

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Federal Reserve Contradiction Of Earlier 'Rosy' Report

Today's report is from Kansas City's 10th District of the Federal Reserve- which states the optimistic report posted here at CSW earlier this week was basic straw-grasping.


According to this story at The Kansas City BUSINESS REPORT- the Federal Reserve report stated that "overall bank earnings in the district continue to fall but remain in the positive range at 0.58 percent. Nationwide, the average is 0.15 percent, down from 0.24 percent in 2008."

Those are the commercial foreclosures that I made earlier note of in that those were on the increase- lagging behind home foreclosures.

Reported in the Fed report- that facet of doom is addressed as "Construction and land development loans (CLDs) are the main culprit for asset-quality deterioration in the district. Kansas banks had the highest percentage of noncurrent CLDs in the district, now exceeding 15 percent."

"Missouri banks had a roughly 11 percent rate for noncurrent CLDs. Nationwide, the rate is 13.6 percent, up from 8.7 percent at the end of 2008 and 3.11 percent at the end of 2007-" the Fed report stated.


Logic applies that this "recession (depression)" will continue as jobs continually dry-up and people continue to hold their spending in a wholly-uncertain employment market.

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It's Official: Mayor Funkhouser Has Lost Captain Spaulding

On Thursday- KC-MO City councilman Russ Johnson advanced an ordinance that would sweep MAST-EMS into the city fire department.

Voting FOR this ordinance was Mayor Mark Funkhouser. Other yes votes came from councilpersons Deb Hermann, Beth Gottstein, Cindy Circo, Terry Riley and Cathy Jolly


This was approved a WEEK before any "public hearing" on such a move to fold one of America's BEST ambulance/paramedic services into that labor-troubled city department.

Labor-troubled as in fire department strikes against KC-MO and it's citizens in 1975 and 1980.


Funk- I've supported you through "Mammy-gate" and other childish controversies but- after this vote to dissolve MAST-EMS into the KC-MO FD- you have finally lost me.

You claim a "cost-savings" in doing this. I'll bet you a month's pay that no immediate savings come out of this move- but it will actually cost the city MORE to do this.

What will KC-MO do with the current multi-million dollar MAST-EMS headquarters on Eastwood Trafficway?

What about the many dozens of MAST employees who DO NOT live in KC-MO?

How are the different shifts of paramedics and EMT's going to fold into the 1 day on- two days off schedule of firefighters?

How will firefighters sleep at night when the ambulance in the station gets calls and/or moved around to fill coverage gaps like MAST does now?

And- most important- what will KC-MO residents do when the paramedics and EMTs join the firefighters in another slowdown or strike?

At any rate- Mayor Funkhouser and most of the City Council have lost my support- and any future vote.

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Cat Lovers: Avoid Raymore-MO At ALL Cost

Most of you by now I'm sure have heard of the Raymore cops who shot and killed a deaf-declawed 19-year-old house cat that had gotten out of it's owners house on Labor Day Monday.

The cat reportedly had escaped and gotten into a neighbor's garage and Raymore Police claimed the de-clawed cat had scratched a child in the process.

So- rather than take the cat to the animal shelter for observation and possible rabies tests- the cops took the cat into a field- shot and killed it- then put the cat's corpse into a grocery bag and dumped it in a city trashcan.

The Raymore police chief's name is Mayberry- but no Barney Fife jokes here....

Contact the police:

Captain Roger Mayberry (Acting Chief)
rmayberry@raymore.com
100 Municipal Circle
Raymore, Missouri 64083
Ph: (816) 331-0530Fax: (816) 331-0564

http://www.raymore.com/index.aspx?nid=100

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