Kansas Teen Shot - Killed During Underage Drinking Party

The Topeka (KS) Capitol-Journal reports that a 14-year-old girl was shot and killed late Friday night in Augusta-KS- about 20 miles east of Wichita...


The story says there was "an underage drinking party" going on at the time- and that "a 25-year-old man" at the party had pulled out a gun to show it off and the gun went off- killing Augusta High School freshman Andrea Young.


Reportedly- the man showing-off the gun also owned the house where the party was. That guy was arrested and is being held by police.

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WEATHER: Freeze Warning Metro K.C.

We didn't get a frost or freeze in the Metro Saturday morning- only got down to 38-degrees here in South KC-MO but the NWS says there's a chance of a freeze Sunday morning.

We didn't recover much at all temperature-wise today- it's 40-degrees here in at CSW HQ now.

With a cloud cover hanging around plus some warm air aloft sneaking in overnight- it looks like possibly those of us in the central Metro may escape a freeze.

But outlying and low-lying areas could possibly dip below the 32-degree mark after midnight.


At least we haven't had any snow- like these graphics from Nebraska traffic cameras showed early Saturday morning.



Some parts of the Cornhusker State got up to 10-inches of snow Saturday morning- as shown here from Ogallala and North Platte around the 1 am hour.

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Arson Suspected In KC-MO "North-End" Fire

Five companies of the KC-MO Fire department rolled out early Saturday morning to a structure fire in the 500 block of Harrison in Kansas City's Old World North End.

Pumper 25 arrived 3 minutes after the 3:07 am dispatch- and found the back porch of a duplex burning.

A working fire response was ordered and firefighters used 2 handlines on the fire over the next 15 minutes until the flames were controlled.

During the firefight- the on-scene battalion chief spotted a Dumpster on fire a block away on Gillis. Another pumper company was dispatched on that fire.

The structure- a 2-story duplex- was unoccupied and there were no firefighter injuries. Dangerous buildings department was called as the burned back porch of the fire building was nearing collapse.


The cause of the Harrison fire- as well as the Dumpster fire on Gillis were suspicious- and a fire investigator was called in and discovered both fires were arson- according to a nameless KC-MO FD employee late Saturday afternoon.

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Grandview-MO Home Damaged By Fire

The Grandview Fire department sent all on-duty hands to a house fire in the 13700 block of Parker at 12:09 am Saturday morning.

The fire reportedly started in the living room of the lived-in structure- and had spread throughout the house by the time the first firefighters arrived at 12:12 am..

Belton Fire sent a "mutual-aid" pumper truck to the fire- and KC-MO Fire sent a pumper company- truck company and a battalion chief to fill-in at an empty Grandview fire station.

Using at least 2 handlines- GFD had the fire under control by 12:35 am with no injuries reported.

Red Cross was summoned to the scene to render aid to the unknown number of the home's occupants.

A fire investigator was sent to the scene and the report was not yet available.

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Man Critically Injured In KC-MO Shooting

At 3:38 am Saturday morning- KC-MO Center Zone police officers responded on a reported shooting in the 1900 block of East Missouri Avenue in the near-Northeast area.

When officers arrived about 3:45 am- they found a male victim with "4" gunshot wounds (according to MAST-EMS) and "a large crowd"- none of whom apparently "saw anything" a C-Z officer said.

An investigation is underway without the limited witness evidence.

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Two Shooting Victims In KC-KS Early Saturday

Police are investigating 2 shootings in their city Saturday morning- one possibly injured a child.


The first shooting victim was found by police at 18th Street and Central Avenue around 1:45 am..

The "uncooperative" male was reported by KC-KS FD-EMS to have "2" gunshot wounds as well as other serious injuries.

Police were investigating...

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The 2nd shooting occurred about 2:55 am in the 300 block of South 10th Street.

Before police got to the address- someone had already driven the victim- reported as "an 8-year-old female shot in the chest" to a Metro medical trauma center.

The victim's condition was unknown.

There was also reportedly a 2nd person shot at the address- but their condition was said by police to be "not life-threatening."

Police reported a possible suspect vehicle as "a black SUV containing up to 4 Hispanic males.

KC-KS police spotted a vehicle meeting that description around 3:15 am near 7th Street and Kansas Avenue and gave a brief chase before the SUV crashed and the occupants bailed out.

At least 2 of those occupants was in police custody by 3:30 am- but a foot search was underway for one and possibly another.

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BREAKING NEWS: Fatality Hit & Run In Oak Grove-MO

Not too many details yet on this incident that occurred during the 1 o'clock hour Saturday morning.

A man was found apparently struck by a vehicle in Oak Grove in the area of 15th Street & Broadway and was dead-on-arrival of Sni Valley EMS.

The victim had also been decapitated.

The Missouri Highway Patrol was investigating.

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WEATHER: Frost- Freeze Warnings For Kansas City Metro-MetroRegion

By this time tomorrow- the growing season will have ended over most of the Kansas City MetroRegion.


Frost warnings are in effect early Saturday morning - "3-9 am" - for all of Metro Kansas City and surrounding areas southwest to east


Freeze warnings exist from areas in and around Topeka- Lawrence- Atchison-KS to St. Joseph and Chillicothe-MO..

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When Economic Conditions Suck- Cities Turn To New Arenas

In this "recession (depression)"- we citizens who can't get into our neighbor's pocket for added revenue turn to cost-cutting and hopefully- savings.

Responsible governments theoretically also cut costs and trim pork- including putting glitz projects on hold.

Don't tell the City of Independence-MO about glitz- as they just opened their new (and competing with Sprint and Kemper) arena.

Also don't tell Lincoln-NE about glitz- as their city leaders are preparing to put plans for a new arena there on the November ballot.

Ah- what the Hell- infrastructure is sooooo unsexy...

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BREAKING NEWS: M-23 Highway Closed Between Concordia and Knob Noster

Reported about 5 minutes ago over the Johnson County MO Sheriff's radio:
Missouri "(M)-23 highway is closed in the Blackwater (River) Bottoms due to flooding."

This is a main route between I-70 at Concordia and U.S. 50 in Knob Noster.

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Central States WEATHER: NWS- "Very Serious Flash Flooding Threat" in Central Missouri

This is for areas on the extreme eastern edges of the Kansas City MetroRegion- areas in and around Columbia and Jefferson City- where up to 7-inches of rain has fallen today.

More rain is on the way for the same areas.

If you plan on driving in any of the below-warned areas- PLEASE use extreme caution!


BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO
1212 PM CDT THU OCT 8 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ST LOUIS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
AUDRAIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... BOONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... CALLAWAY COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... COLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... MONITEAU COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI... MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL MISSOURI... OSAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 1205 PM CDT...A VERY SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING THREAT HAS DEVELOPED OVER MID MISSOURI.

RAINFALLS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED IN AN EAST-WEST BAND FROM WEST OF COLUMBIA TO NEAR MONTGOMERY CITY... AND MORE RAIN IS ON THE WAY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE BRIEF BREAK IN THE HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL OCCUR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

MORE RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS MID-MISSOURI WERE FLOODED AND CLOSED AT MIDDAY... AND AS THE RAIN AND RUNOFF CONTINUES TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL BECOME MORE HAZARDOUS.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE:

ASHLAND... CALIFORNIA... CENTRALIA... COLUMBIA... FULTON... HOLTS SUMMIT... JEFFERSON CITY... LINN... MEXICO... MONTGOMERY CITY... TIPTON...VANDALIA... WELLSVILLE... AUXVASSE... BELLFLOWER... BIG SPRING... BRAZITO... BUELL... CENTERTOWN... CHAMOIS... CLARKSBURG... EASLEY... FARBER... FREEBURG... HALLSVILLE... HICKORY HILL... HIGH POINT... JAMESTOWN... JONESBURG AND LADDONIA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.

MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES... DIPS... OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT OR IN A VEHICLE.

IF YOU COME ACROSS A FLOODED ROAD TURN AROUND AND FIND ANOTHER ROUTE TO YOUR DESTINATION.

NO TRIP IS WORTH YOUR LIFE!

THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY.

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