Tag: Public Safety

Platte County Sheriff Tom Thomas announced Monday that he will retire at the end of this term, which will be ...

The University of Missouri Board of Curators named chair Todd Graves to serve for a second one-year term, effective Jan. ...

EDITOR: As part of their 2026 budget preparation, City of Parkville staff proposed eliminating the Municipal Court (MC) and moving ...

Welcome to the week of Thanksgiving. I’ve written this in previous years and I’ll repeat it for newcomers. Even though ...

A Weatherby Lake man who sexually molested a five-year-old girl has been sentenced to 36 years in prison. Nicholas Goss, ...

ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED ON TUESDAY MORNING Kansas City police say there was a traffic fatality at KCI Airport Tuesday ...

TRAFFIC FATALITIES ARE ALSO DOWN Crime in Kansas City is down notably in major categories, the Kansas City Police Department ...

HE WILL BE SENTENCED IN JANUARY A 39-year-old Dearborn man has been found guilty by a Platte County jury of ...

ELECTED OFFICIALS APPROVE 30% RAISE BY A 6-4 VOTE Platte County elected officeholders have voted to increase salaries for county ...

CONVENIENT, ON-DEMAND TRANSPORTATION SERVICE The City of Riverside hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony Nov. 4 in the Fire Department bays ...

AUTHORITIES SAY INDIANA MAN FLED STATE 'TO ESCAPE JUSTICE' An Indianapolis, Indiana man has been charged with second degree murder ...

Park Hill South High School in Riverside sustained significant vandalism Saturday night, with damage estimates ranging from $7,000 to $10,000. ...

A common belief is that traffic speed enforcement efforts are not as prevalent as they once were on the part ...

Two inmates who escaped from the Platte County Jail on Monday night were back in the same jail Tuesday morning. ...

A 17-year-old Platte City girl is “mortified,” says Det. Al Devalkenaere with the Platte City Police Department after having discovered ...

ALREADY 36 STOP ARM VIOLATIONS IN R-3 DISTRICT So far in the first month of the 2025-26 school year, Platte ...

The white-tailed deer population is a problem in Parkville as the human population and herds multiply. “The deer population is ...

DECISION MIGHT HAPPEN AT SEPT. 23 MEETING The topic of allowing backyard chickens will be up for possible approval when ...

A ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court this week on a case that originated in Platte County means victory for ...

The search is on. Platte City police are searching for the owners of stolen property who may have been victimized ...