Kansas City Crime Scene: Gun Play, Raytown Shooting & Political Probs

We're using this post to catch up on quite a few items related to police investigations, robberies and serious political turmoil.

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Kansas City mother of 6 shot and killed at house party days before Thanksgiving

The Housing Authority says 26-year-old Michelle Donato and her mother were both shot. Donato, who has six children ended up dying from her injuries

FBI remains on scene 24+ hours after Northland search turns deadly

The FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force executed the federal search warrant on Monday.

Two KC-area officials arrested as investigators probe troubled Jackson County village

Two elected officials in the Jackson County village of River Bend were arrested on election-related charges. A majority of the KC-area council faces charges.

KC man charged with felonies after group robs man at gunpoint for his gun

A Kansas City man has been charged with multiple felonies after robbing another man at gunpoint for the man's gun.

Independence attorney and convicted felon admits he earned commission on utility contract

A plea deal involving former Independence attorney John Carnes and federal prosecutors revealed the convicted felon earned a commission on a city contract at the heart of a years-long FBI probe.

Charges filed against men allegedly caught in child sex trafficking sting: 'Are you really 14?'

Five men were arrested in the operation, three of whom have since been charged.

Investigators rule 'suspicious' death in Kansas City, Kansas, to be an overdose

Police were called to the 400 block of Kindelberger Road in Kansas City, Kansas, Monday morning to investigate the death, after a body was found in a parked vehicle.

Man hospitalized after shooting in Raytown

Raytown police said no one is in custody.

'Possible medical emergency' causes driver to lose control, crash vehicle into Shawnee building

Just before 2:30 p.m., the Shawnee Police Department, Shawnee Fire Department and Johnson County MED-ACT responded to the 6700 block of Lackman Road.

Sandra Hemme, Missouri woman wrongfully convicted for 44 years, is a step closer to total freedom

For the first time in more than four decades, Sandra Hemme may get to spend Thanksgiving with her family - not in prison. Hemme was wrongly convicted of murdering a St. Joseph librarian in 1980, but a Missouri judge overturned the charges this year.

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