BREAKING: High-Speed Independence MO Police Pursuit Ends With Serious Injury Crash

The chase was underway at 10:37 pm..

An Independence MO police officer was chasing "a black (Chevrolet) Monte Carlo with temporary Kansas tags" for "a traffic violation" in East Kansas City and the border with Blue Summit on 23rd Street.


Speeds were reported by the pursuing officer as high as "105" MPH as the chase continued rapidly west into Kansas City.


At 10:39 pm- the suspect car went south on Kensington and- at the intersection with 24th Street- rammed into a vehicle with 2 occupants.


Two EMS/ambulances are dispatched here at 10:42 pm- but only one person transported.


The "male" driver of the Monte Carlo was taken into custody after a short footchase after the crash..  

Kansas City MO Murder Total Tops 120 So Far in 2016

December 2016 isn't yet half over- but the homicide count continues to increase...


Friday afternoon- a man was reportedly shot dead in the 8100 block of Troost in south-central around 1:30 pm..


Police report having a suspect in custody- and the killing reportedly was the result of a family dispute.


The last year Kansas City murders reached the 120 mark was in 2008 at 126 killings..

BREAKING: Apartment Building Fire in Kansas City MO's North End

At 3:38 am Thursday morning- 3 pumpers- a rescue squad and ladder company with EMS were dispatched to "an apartment" building fire in the 1100 block of East Missouri Avenue (see GOOGLE image below).


This is in KC's famous North End- home to many original Italian immigrants more than 100 years ago.

One company from Station 10 reported seeing flames "from (Independence Ave.) and Paseo" while enroute at 3:40 am..

When companies pull-up less than two minutes later- fire is shooting through the roof and- at 3:46 am- fire crews are pulled from their interior attack.

As of 4:35 am- no victims have been reported or found and no injuries reported.

Firefighters only able to do a cursory search of the 1st-floor as the firefight continued.

Temperatures are in the middle-teens with light northwest wind..

There had been a minor electrical fire at this address Thursday evening.

Kansas City's First Snow of Winter 2016-17

Most areas have seen one-half inch or less- but many roadways are wet and with temperatures just below freezing- you KNOW what that means.


Here's what it looked like minutes ago on the lawn of WDAF FOX-4 at 31st Street and Southwest Trafficway ....

BREAKING: Homicide on Kansas City's East Side

Shortly after 8 pm Tuesday night- East Zone Kansas City MO Police got the call of a shooting at the Bluebird Motel at 8920 East U.S. 40 highway.


At 8:08 pm- Fire and EMS are also enroute.

By 8:16 pm- an officer on the shooting scene reports one "confirmed" dead.


Reported suspect info was only "a black male in a black vest- left on foot westbound."


No other info available on this breaking news.

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Annual Corporate News Media Fake News Coming

At least one if not all of your 'network' news stations will air fake news in about two and a-half weeks.


Guaranteed.  Perhaps with the US Government involved.


It's known as those Christmas Eve 'Santa sightings-'  for years "tracked" by NORAD (the North American Defense Command).


Your local news station will replace a fluff- celebrity and/or Internet pop-culture story or two with more hard-hitting news of a fictional character being transported in a fictional conveyance to your doorstep (or rooftop if you will- if you won't...forget it ;) ).


Why worry about "fake news" on the Internet when commercial TV has been providing such for years? 

BREAKING: House Fire With Victim in East Kansas City MO

At least seven fire companies from Kansas City and Raytown MO were called to a "house fire" in the 4600 block of Norwood Court at 8:35 am Tuesday morning.


Units from KCFD Station 39- located about 6 blocks from the address- reported a fire in the attic of the structure after they arrived minutes later.


At 8:44 am- a victim is reportedly found inside and a 2nd EMS/ambulance is ordered.

At 9:09 am- KCFD EMS "Medic-521" transported this victim- "an approximately 50-year-old male-" non-emergency and in what sounds good condition to a hospital.


The fire itself was declared "under control" at 8:56 am.


Cause and damage determinations pending.

Kansas City News Censors

Kansas City is not only blessed with increasingly-fluff news- but with news censoring as well.


Images from a news helicopter over a multi-fatality fire in Oakland CA were carefully edited by KCTV-5 so people were not offended by the sight of body bags still inside the burned structure.

The station of their Facebook page stated they did so because showing the images would have been "disrespectful."


What seems to me as TV news "disrespectful" is editorializing on news stories and censoring news content- but hey- this is the new- bizarro America.  

BTW- the fire was in an old warehouse converted to some-sort of artists' colony and there was reportedly some sort of concert in progress.

The death toll was 9 as of 1 pm Kansas City time with a growing list of those reported missing that can be found HERE.  

BREAKING: Working Fire at Longtime Raytown Business

At 10 pm Wednesday night- all of Raytown's and at least 3 fire companies from Kansas City MO responded to the report of a fire at "Clark's Appliances at 63rd St. and Raytown (Trafficway)."


First-arriving units minutes later report "heavy smoke showing" and call for "a working fire response."

The incident is underway at this time and thus far- no injuries reported.

Clark's Appliance store has been at this location for more than 50 years.

According to Clark's Website- the business opened the same year of the Ruskin Heights Tornado- 1957.

At 10:44 pm- this fire was declared under control.

The extent of damage to Clark's is unknown at this time- but will likely be extensive.

BREAKING: Triple-Victim Shooting in Kansas City MO near Raytown

The incident is in the 6800 block of Manchester and it occurred around 9:25 pm Tuesday night.

It was reported as a shooting with the victim's vehicle crashing after the gunshots.


PD on-scene at 9:30 pm says there's 2- then 3 victims- "one critical with a GSW (gunshot wound) to the head" and another victim "serious... shot in the back."

FD dispatches the 3rd ambulance at 9:39 pm.

Police are saying at least two of the shooting victims are teens ... one "15" the other "16" year-old males.

Only suspect info heard as of 9:45 was "a black male with dreds" left the scene in "a black sedan southbound on Manchester."


At 9:51 pm- the first EMS unit- "Medic 537" is enroute to the closest trauma hospital with a gravely-injured ("GCS maybe 5 at best) 17-18-year-old male" with the GSW to his head.


The 15 and 16-year-olds are transported to different hospitals just before 10 pm- both in serious but not immediately life-threatening condition like the first transport.


The have already been 112 homicides in KC this year.


More details as they become available....

BREAKING: Man Critically-Injured in South-Central KC MO Shooting

The incident was reported by public service radio at 5:55 pm at an apartment in the 3100 block of East 49th Street.


KCFD-EMS "Medic 29" transported "a 58-year-old male" who was shot in the chest and in critical condition to a nearby medical trauma center.


Later updates by media and police say this victim later died of his wound and that this occurred as a result of an armed residence robbery.