CSW BREAKING: Five Shot in KC-MO Crossroads Area

It happened around 3:10 a.m. in the 2000 block of Broadway- in the parking lot of the Town Topic hamburger stand...




Police reported "two" victims found in the parking lot there.




Over the next 20 minutes- KC-MO Police report four other victims would arrive at two area hospitals.




One of them was "shot in the chest" and had gone into surgery.




The only victim heard transported by EMS from the Broadway location was "a 23-year-old female" who was "shot in the lower abdomen."


She was in serious to critical condition and was taken to a third hospital.




No suspect information was heard- the investigation includes a "shot-up car" that transported 2 of the victims to a hospital.

CSW BREAKING: Fatality Crash Reported in Kansas City MO Northland

Parts of I-29 at I-635 was closed early Saturday after a "2 vehicle" crash on the northbound I-29 ramp to southbound I-635.


Police report one of the drivers was going the wrong way.

Riverside emergency services responded on the 12:38 a.m. call as well- reporting "a vehicle on fire" with people "trapped" inside the fiery wreckage.




By 12:50 a.m.- it was reported that there were possibly "2" fatalities there- with two injured.




However- only one medical transport heard- "a 30's-something female" who was "ejected" during the crash and "found lying on the highway" by citizens who stopped to help.

Her condition was critical as reported by KC-MO FD-EMS.




Further details are pending as the crash is under joint investigation by Riverside and KC-MO law.

At Least 12 Shot Dead in Suburban Denver Movie Theater

Early Friday morning- a male dressed in military clothing and brandishing chemical cannisters and guns- broke into an Aurora Colorado movie theater during a special late showing of the new Batman movie- 'The Dark Knight Rises.'




It happened at the Century 16 theater complex near I-225 and Arvada in Aurora.




The man threw a cannister that produced a cloud of acrid  smoke then opened fire using three guns on the stunned patrons- striking more than 70 people.


Ten died in the theater- "Number 9" of 16 in the complex.




Two others died at Denver hospitals- 58 others either admitted or treated and released from eight Denver medical facilities that received the injured.




Eleven people were still reported in critical condition early Saturday morning.




Among the injured were patrons next door in theater No. 8 where the Batman film was further along.


Bullets from No. 9 came through the wall- ironically during a shooting scene in No. 8's film.





The DENVER POST reports that the gunshot victims ranged in age from 3-months-old to 45-years-old.



The suspect- a 24-year-old Aurora man named James Holmes- was taken into custody.




Holmes' north Aurora apartment was booby-trapped- and police had to work slowly to gain entry.





Link to story containing contributed and unedited cell phone recording after shooting.

Two-Alarm Fire is Out at Blue Valley-Northwest High School

Ten companies of Overland Park- Leawood and Olathe firefighters fought a fire at Blue Valley Northwest High school at 13260 Switzer late Thursday evening.

The fire- reported around 9:30 p.m. and said to have been restricted to one room and controlled by the school's sprinkler system- was reported "out" at 10:26 p.m.




Fire crews are still evacuating smoke from the building and cleaning up what water damage they can.




More specifics as they become available- but no injuries reported.

CSW BREAKING: Injuries Reported at High-Rise Apartments for Elderly in KC-MO

The address is 1800 East Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard- a 12-story building housing the elderly and infirm in Midtown Kansas City MO..




It's a 3-alarm-plus fire that began just before 9:30 p.m. this hot Wednesday night.

At least 15 KC-MO fire companies- and twelve ambulances (FD-EMS) units responded to the scene of a fire that was reportedly caused by "an exploding oxygen tank" in an upper-story apartment.




At least one seriously-injured person has been transported to Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill (TMC/West) with airway burns and smoke inhalation.




Two less seriously-injured patients- both males- were transported to Research Medical Center.




At least two others were being treated at the scene by FD-EMS.




Thus far- no reports of any fatalities at the scene..




The fire appears to be out as of 9:55 p.m.- but smoke remained in the building as a few evacuations of residents in the at-least 11-story building continued.

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.
KCTV 5

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.