Emergency Response

No one was injured in a crash that forced the closure of eastbound Kansas Highway 10 near Kansas Highway 7 during the Friday evening rush. Police from Olathe, Lenexa, a Johnson County Sheriff’s Office deputy and Kansas Highway Patrol troopers...

Overland Park Police say that the driver of a stolen pickup truck crashed into another driver and then ran from the scene late Sunday night. Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the intersection of 143rd Street and Nall Avenue...

Gardner Police are investigating after a car crashed through the front windows of a Mexican restaurant early Tuesday afternoon. Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to La Carreta Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, 949 E. Lincoln Lane, which faces Main Street,...

Updated: Monday, March 2 Investigators say hot coals from a grill started a fire that destroyed an Overland Park home over the weekend. Overland Park Fire Department Media Manager Jason Rhodes said in a statement Sunday that the fire at the...

A reported home explosion in Mission near 53rd Street and Lamar Avenue is under investigation. Firefighters from Consolidated Fire District No. 2 and the Overland Park Fire Department were called to the area Monday at 11:47 a.m. for a possible...

Several Merriam homes and businesses were evacuated after a construction crew struck a gas line along Antioch Road near Shawnee Mission Parkway late Wednesday evening. Overland Park firefighters and Merriam police were first called to the area at about 4...

Update: Tuesday, Feb. 10 The Overland Park Fire Department has identified the deceased man in Monday morning's fire as David Eugene Slavens, 55, of Overland Park. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, the department noted. Original story continues below: The Overland...

Update: Monday, Feb. 9 Olathe fire officials said a man injured in a house fire last week later died from his injuries. In an updated statement on social media last Wednesday, the Olathe Fire Department identified the man as Johnny Ray...

An apartment fire in Overland Park late Saturday evening displaced residents of eight units at the complex. Firefighters from Overland Park and Consolidated Fire District No. 2 were called to 6729 W. 87th Terrace in the Colonial Gardens Apartments at...

Two men were transported to area hospitals from a house fire near Stilwell early Thursday morning. Overland Park firefighters and Johnson County Med-Act paramedics responded to the 18600 block of Lamar Avenue just after 1 a.m., on reports of a...

Merriam Police are investigating after a man was found dead along the Turkey Creek Streamway Trail on Thursday afternoon. Captain Jerimiah Waters, spokesperson for the police department, told the Post that officers were called to the area by a person...

Two drivers are hospitalized after a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 in Lenexa on Tuesday evening. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the crash happened at 4:55 p.m., on northbound I-35 just south of the Quivira Road Viaduct, between 95th and...