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Crime & Courts

An Overland Park woman has been charged with failing to stop at the scene of a crash after she allegedly drove away after hitting a pedestrian along 95th Street on the Fourth of July last year. The crash happened shortly...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated at 11:41 a.m. Friday with Olathe Police’s confirmation that the suspicious activity occurred at a neighborhood park. Olathe Police say a man attempted to lure children to his vehicle at a neighborhood park...
A former Olathe East High School student who shot a school resource officer at his school in 2022 will serve 20 years in prison for the incident that left himself and two others injured. On Wednesday, Jaylon Elmore, who was...
Police in two northeast Johnson County cities are investigating two grocery store burglaries. Prairie Village police were called to investigate the latest break-in at the Hen House, 6950 Mission Road, on Monday morning. Sergeant Josh Putthoff, a spokesperson for Prairie Village...
Editor's note: This story was updated at 12:53 p.m. with the correct name of the nearby oil change station. Overland Park Police confirm that a man was stabbed during a disturbance near 135th Street and Grant Street early Sunday night. According...
The Kansas Court of Appeals has largely sided with a district court judge's rulings on three controversial resident-led petitions that roiled Prairie Village nearly two years ago. Like the Johnson County judge's 2023 ruling, the three-judge panel of the Kansas...
A teenager has pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated robbery for his involvement in the murder of a Shawnee man in 2022. On Feb. 28 in Johnson County District Court, Fernando Gonzalez-Prado, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder and...
Prairie Village Police say a man robbed the Taco Republic in Corinth Square on Saturday night. In a news release, Sgt. Josh Putthoff said officers responded to the restaurant at 4100 West 83rd St. at 9:21 p.m., after a call...
A Johnson County man has pleaded guilty in federal court to running an online platform that created fake doctors’ orders that enabled him and two other suspects to defraud Medicare and other federal health care programs of more than...
Investigators say two men facing charges for a string of burglaries late last year at an Edgerton convenience store are also linked to a series of vandalism incidents in the southern Johnson County town, including a swastika spray-painted at...
Updated, Wednesday, 7:30 a.m. Prairie Village Police now say a shooting that was initially believed to be part of an attempted carjacking Tuesday night was the result of road rage. In an updated press release Tuesday morning, Prairie Village Police Sgt....
An Olathe teen will more than 20 years in prison for his role in a fatal shooting at Black Bob Park in 2022. On Thursday, a judge in Johnson County District Court gave Jacobi Epting, 16, a 241-month sentence for...