Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Andrew Triggs pitched six shutout innings, Jed Lowrie drove in three runs and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 8-3 Wednesday night. Triggs (2-0) scattered four hits and a walk, striking out three. It was the former Royals farmhand's second solid start this...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Khris Davis hit a two-run homer, Jharel Cotton shut down Kansas City's anemic offense and the Oakland Athletics held on to spoil the Royals' home opener with a 2-0 victory Monday. Cotton (1-1) gave up a single in the first and another in the sixth, but otherwise befuddled a...

1 of 2 bodies found by missing Missouri woman's relatives, identified KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say a body found by a family searching for a missing Missouri woman was that of a Kansas man. Police announced Friday the body was that of Dante Jamal Jefferson, 19, of Merriam. The...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Foreign dignitaries from around the world were in Kansas City, Missouri, Thursday at its towering World War I monument to observe the 100th anniversary of the day the U.S. entered "The Great War." A sellout crowd of 3,000 onlookers also snapped up tickets for the daylong...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - An Overland Park man who said he beat his roommate to death because he thought she was a zombie was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison. Christopher Duane Wallace was sentenced Monday for second-degree murder in the January 2016 death of 35-year-old Jennifer Lopez. The Kansas...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Miguel Sano homered and drew the third bases-loaded walk for Minnesota during a dreadful seventh inning for Kansas City's bullpen as the Ervin Santana and the Twins beat the Royals 7-1 on Monday for their first opening victory in nine years. Santana (1-0) gave up just two...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a man was killed in Kansas City, Kansas. Police said in a news release that officers responding to a shooting Thursday night found Shelton Estell, 34, of Kansas City, Kansas, dead in a street from an apparent gunshot wound. Anyone with...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — As Kansas City deals with gray areas in herbal supplements and regulated pharmaceutical medication, the number of shops that sells hemp oil is beginning to rise in the metro area. The Kansas City Star reports the shops sell the product known as cannabidiol, which derives...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man wounded while trying to intervene in an apparently racially motivated shooting at a suburban Kansas City bar has received a $100,000 check. The Kansas City Star reports that Ian Grillot was surprised with the check Saturday at a Houston gala. The India House, which...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A second man who helped rob a Kansas bank before leading police on a chase with a toddler in the getaway car has been sentenced to federal prison. A judge sentenced Jacob L. Smith, 19, on Monday in Kansas City, Kansas. Smith pleaded guilty to bank robbery and brandishing a...