CSW BREAKING: Fire Damages Two Houses in East KC-MO

Five companies of the Kansas City MO Fire department are extinguishing the last flames that have damaged two houses in the city's old Sheffield district.

The fire was first reported in a house in the 7000 block of East 12th terrace around 11:24 a.m. and quickly spread to the house next door.


No one was inside either house and the fire was brought under control at 11:41 a.m..


No injuries have been reported- and the fire's cause is under investigation.

KC-MO Homicide No. 114 For 2011

Late Tuesday night- police found a "white male in his 30's" dead of a gunshot wound in south-central Kansas City MO..


Police got the call around 11:30 p.m. to the 6800 block of Bales where they found the victim lying in the driveway of a residence there.


No suspect information was available- and identification of the city's 114 killing of the year was pending.

Central States News: Large "Disturbances' Erupt at Shopping Malls in Omaha- Twin Cities

It's a killer of enclosed shopping malls (see former Bannister- Indian Springs Malls) in big cities- roving bands of thugs causing trouble...


In Omaha NE- "multiple" fights broke out Monday evening in that city's Westroads Mall- and one was filmed by a TV news crews from WOWT who was there filming another story.

No one reported injuries to police- but there were "two arrests for disorderly conduct" according to the story on the WOWT-TV Web page.



In suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul- an estimated "50 to 200" people were involved in a series of disturbances at the massive Mall of America in Bloomington MN Monday afternoon.


Twin Cities television station KSTP reported that "all available" police officers were called to the Mall of America and that there were "ten arrests- four juveniles and six adults" after a series of fights there.

It took "several hours" to bring that situation under control- and police told KSTP there were "no serious injuries-" but didn't mention the number or extent of injuries that DID occur.

One reason I avoid the shopping malls- and crowds- like the plague....

CSW BREAKING: Rural Buchanan County House Fire With "10000 Rounds of Ammunition" There

That's what the Platte county MO fire dispatcher tells fire crews at a house fire in extreme southern Buchanan county Tuesday afternoon.


The incident- reported initially around 3 p.m.- is in the 16900 block of MM Highway.

The report from the PLCO fire dispatcher on "10000 rounds of (unknown caliber) ammunition in the basement" of the burning structure.


So far- no injuries have been reported as fire crews are having to use water tankers to put out the fire.


The fire was declared "out" at 4:28 p.m.- with no reports of any issues caused by the stored ammo.

National Weather Service's USA 30-Day Weather Outlook for January 2012

Sorry- with the holiday and all I'm a little late with the current National Weather Service's (NWS) 30-Day weather outlook across America for the coming month of January.

 Temperature-wise- above-average conditions are expected over all the Central States with the exception of extreme northwest Kansas and the western Nebraska Panhandle- where near-average temps can be expected.

Above-average precipitation is possible in a swath from eastern Oklahoma- all of Arkansas into the southeastern half of Missouri and Illinois.

Below-average precip is forecast from southwestern Kansas south into the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles.


In Metro and MetroRegion Kansas City- it appears that temperatures will be at least slightly above seasonal averages with near-average precipitation.

KC-MO 2011 Homicide Number 113 on Christmas Day

The death of an adult female in South KC-MO on Sunday is being investigated as a homicide by police.

The woman- reported by police as a yet-publicly-unidentified black woman in her 30's- was found dead in an apartment in the 8800 block of Crystal around 4:20 p.m..


Two homicides occurred during the hour before Christmas Saturday night- males found dead by gunshot in the 1000 block of East 43rd Street and at 24th Street and Denver.

Second KC-MO Homicide Christmas Eve

While police were investigating the city's latest homicide in south-Midtown late Saturday night as first reported here at CSW- another reportedly occurred on KC-MO's East Side...


Police responding to a shots fired in the area call reportedly found a male dead of gunshot wounds at 24th Street and Denver during the 11 p.m. hour.


There are yet no further details on what appears to be Kansas City MO's 112 killing of 2011.

CSW BREAKING: Kitchen Fire Heavily Damages Kansas City KS Home

Two adults have been rendered temporarily homeless after a kitchen fire that spread to other parts of their house early Christmas morning.


The incident was dispatched at 2:48 a.m. to the address in the 2000 block of Matney Avenue.

The first fire company arrived six minutes later to smoke coming from the "1-story" structure- with the occupants already outside and uninjured.

The fire had spread from the kitchen to the attic- and it took crews about 40 minutes to bring the flames under control.


No firefighter injuries had been reported as of this post- and the exact cause of the fire was under investigation.

CSW BREAKING: Apartment Building Fire in Lawrence KS

A 2nd-alarm fire struck a Lawrence apartment building early Christmas morning.


The initial alarm sounded at 2:10 a.m. for a reported fire in an apartment at the Applecroft Apartments in the 1700 block of West 19th Street.

When the first fire truck arrived at 2:14 a.m.- they reported "nothing showing-" but just a minute later report "a working fire" in the 3-story structure with "heavy smoke" inside the building reported at 2:17 a.m..

The incident commander requested a "2nd-alarm" at 2:20 a.m.- committing most of Lawrence's on-duty fire companies to this fire.

According to radio traffic from the scene- the fire sounded to be in a 1st-floor apartment.


No injuries have been reported- and so far no victims have been found in any of the apartments that fire crews have made "forced entry" into.


At 2:42 a.m.- the fire has been declared "under control" and there is yet no word on how many residents of the building have been displaced by this fire.

A KSHB-41 Action News photographer is on the way to the scene.

CSW BREAKING: Female Pedestrian Run Over by Truck Near Odessa MO

It's been a noisy late Christmas Eve- early Christmas morning- the KC-MO homicide- at least a dozen assaults- a minor cutting- and almost a dozen overdose/suicide attempts...


At 12:16 a.m. Christmas morning- Odessa Fire and EMS responded to "Johnson Drive- just south of the railroad tracks" on a reported "female run-over by a truck."

Dispatch also advised responding units the victim may have "been dragged a distance" by the truck.

Serious injuries were indicated- and two medical helicopters were requested but cancelled because it would take the choppers to long to get to the scene.


Odessa EMS transported the patient to Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence- age of victim and exact injuries unknown. 

CSW BREAKING: KC-MO Records Homicide Late Christmas Eve

A shooting in the 1000 block of East 43rd Street in south-Midtown has left the victim dead.


The call was dispatched by Center Zone police at 11:25 p.m.- with fire & EMS dispatched four minutes later- on the report of "a black male lying in the doorway" of a residence there.

He had been "shot in the head (neck)-" and was declared dead-on-the-scene by EMS shortly before midnight.


There were two suspect descriptions- both of black males with one described as "wearing a dark hoodie" and the other "wearing a red checkered shirt."


Police crime-taped off a large area round the crime scene- including several blocks of Troost.