CSW Weather: Some Thunderstorms in Metro Kansas City!

Corporate Welfare For The Plaza? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!

The latest Kansas City MO City Clowncil corporate giveaway is a proposed TIF (tax excretement- er- increment financing) for a new hotel on The Plaza!

When will this fleecing of the city's property tax base stop?

Corporate Greed #6823: KMBC-9-Hearst and Time-Warner-Looney Tunes Cable Punish Their Customers

Early Tuesday morning- KMBC and KCWE's signals were dropped off the Time-Warner-Looney Tunes cable system that serves tens of thousands of Metro Kansas City residents.

Reportedly- Hearst Corporation- owner of KCMB and KCWE- was asking an up to 300% increase in their carriage charges to TWLT.

You wouldn't have known that by reading the so-called 'news' story that KMBC-9 ran about this affair on their Web site.

Rather than pay the exorbitant increase- TWLT dropped both stations from the cable lineup around midnight Tuesday- and no indication at all on when both stations MIGHT return to TWLT customers.

Here's another case of corporate greed- and another case where the American consumer gets the shaft....

TV News Story Indicative Why Fewer and Fewer People Watching

Sunday morning- CSW covered the crash of a SUV in Kansas City KS where two of seven vehicle occupants died.




The story that sat on Channel 9's Web page most of Sunday into early Monday read like this (a screen-capture):

Today- the story was updated (barely):

The first story in particular- but also the 'update' should be an absolute embarrassment for Channel 9's news department.




Both versions don't even mention the fact the crash was the end result of a police pursuit!




To be fair to KMBC-9- virtually all the corporate news sources in Kansas City under-reported this story.




Some "news" outlets never even reported the Missouri Highway Patrol trooper's shooting of a citizen Sunday morning- but hey- it probably would have cut into the redundant stories of tomorrow's corporate sports game .

The Violent Kansas City MO Weekend Continues With Northland Police-Involved Shooting

Saturday morning- four people were victims of KC's on-going and virtually unaddressed gun violence including two teenagers- one of whom- a 16-year-old male- died.

Sunday morning it was a cop doing the shooting...

KC-MO Fire department EMS reports "a 40-year-old male" suffered "two gunshot wounds after an altercation with a (police) officer" at eastbound M-152 highway at or near Interstate 435 around 1:55 a.m..



The victim's injuries were considered by the paramedic to be not immediately life-threatening.





A Missouri State Patrol trooper did the shooting- nothing else confirmed yet.

CSW BREAKING: Kansas Police Pursuit Results in Fatality- Multiple Critical Injury Crash

It was around 3:05 Sunday morning- when a SUV reportedly carrying seven young people- ages ranging from mid-teens to their 20's- "failed to yield to a Roeland Park (police) officer-" apparently was chased by the officer and crashed into a highway bridge.

The location was Roe Lane under Interstate 35 in extreme southeastern Kansas City KS..

A KC-KS officer who had responded on the pursuit had arrived- reporting the "failure to yield" aspect- as well as the vehicle being "on fire" and all but one of the seven occupants "were ejected" during the crash.

One person died at the scene- one of the gravely-injured (there were two) was "a female found underneath a cop car-" a KC-KS FD-EMS unit reported.
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The female later died at a Metro hospital.


The other grave patient was "a 20's-something" aged male."


Two other critically-injured males were reported as "approximately 20-years-old" and a "15-year-old."

At least one other patient was transported to a third hospital- but no information on that person was available.




Not heard is why the Roeland Park cop was chasing the SUV that crashed- other than traffic charges.




The three hospitals where the injured were taken to "closed to trauma" patients after the crash and remain so as of this post.


Those were the University of Kansas and Truman (West) Medical Centers- as well as St. Luke's Hospital on The Plaza.




In my 21 years doing Metro Kansas City overnight news- this is the worst crash resulting from a police pursuit since a KC-KS chase/crash in the early to mid 1990's that left at least 2 dead. 

CSW BREAKING: Another Big Fire in Blue Springs MO

Details are few as of this post- but here's what is known...

Lee's Summit Fire department units are assisting the Central Jackson County Fire Protection District (CJCFD) in battling a fire in the Comfort Inn motel on Northridge west of Missouri 7.

This location is north of Interstate 70- west of M-7.




CSW's 'Ms. Rittenhouse' was driving by the location earlier- but couldn't tell what type of  structure was burning- but reported it was "a large fire."

More on this page as received....

CSW BREAKING: Blue Springs MO Brush Fire Spreading Out of Control

At 3:30 pm- additional help has been requested from a Central Jackson County Fire Protection District (CJCFPD) engine on the scene of a reported brush/"natural cover" fire. 

This fire is in the 308000 block of Stoney Point School Road- east of Arnett Road and reportedly now threatens at least one house in the area- and three additional CJCFPD engines were sent.




Fire units from the Sni Valley and Fort Osage departments were also dispatched minutes after the initial help request from the CJCFPD unit.






As of 3:50 pm- this fire has been brought under control with no structures damaged.

CSW BREAKING: Large Brush Fire Causes Evacuations of Homes in Western Lawrence KS

Fire crews from Johnson County KS have been called to assist the Lawrence Fire department on a large brush fire threatening structures in west Lawrence...




Several crews from other Douglas County-area departments have also been summonded.

According to the LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD online- the fire is in an area "east of Kansas Highway 10 near the area where Bob Billings Parkway dead-ends" and threatens " homes on Palisades Drive" near the Langston Hughes Elementary school.

As of 12:30 pm Thursday afternoon- this fire is under control with no homes damaged.

CSW BREAKING: Roof Fire Reported at Oak Grove MO House

This fire was dispatched to the Sni Valley Fire Protection District of Oak Grove at 8:29 p.m. to an address in the 800 block of Southeast 15th Street.

This is just east of the Oak Grove High School.




Fire dispatch said "several callers" reported a house "fully-involved" in flames.




Smoke and fire was reported from the roof of a "1-story" house by the first-arriving SVFPD unit less than 10 minutes later.




At least 1 engine (pumper) company has been sent to the fire scene from the Odessa Fire department.




The fire was reported under control with no reports of injuries at 9:11 pm..

CSW BREAKING: Apartment Building Fire in Blue Springs

Virtually all on-duty Central Jackson County Fire Protection District fire crews- along with backup crews from Lee's Summit- Independence- Fort Osage and Sni Valley fire departments- are battling a fire in a 3-story apartment building in western Blue Springs.

The fire is at the Autumn Place Apartments complex in the 600 block of Northwest Candletree (off Kingsridge) Drive and began around 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday- Independence Day 2012.

"Crowd control" got to be a problem for the Blue Springs Police department- whose resources were already strained by "fireworks calls."




An injury crash elsewhere in Blue Springs reported around 6:30 pm further strained both police and fire resources.




Two children suffered non life-threatening injuries in the crash.

At 7:49 pm- the fire was reported by CJCFPD command as "under control."





No reports of serious injuries- but there have been at least 2 EMS transports of emergency personnel with heat-related medical issues from the fire scene as of 7:55 pm.

And- fire crews had only managed to do a search of the building's first floor- it is not known for sure if anyone was trapped inside by the fire that heavily-damaged the at-least 12-unit structure- and not yet known the number of people displaced by the fire.