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Aug. 22-- Torrential rains fell overnight causing historic flooding in south Kansas City and leading to water rescues and evacuations. As many as 9 inches of rain fell since Monday. Early Tuesday, firefighters rescued a woman stranded in a tree at 103rd Street and Wornall Road when Indian Creek flooded the area. That creek, which saw record flooding last month, set a new record of 28. 22 feet overnight . A family of seven were trapped on top of their roof after rushing floodwaters surrounded their home at 155th Street and Kenneth Road. The Overland Park Fire Department have been in contact via phone with the family of three adults and four children and their pets. Because they are not in immediate danger and the water levels around them are receding, crews will allow those water levels to drop to safer levels before evacuating the family. Firefighters said the family is calm. Floodwaters were out of the banks of Indian Creek and over bridges as businesses, apartments and homes we...

Torrential rains caused historic flooding in the Kansas City area Tuesday , leaving one man dead in Kansas and others stranded for hours by high water. Water rescues and evacuations kept police and firefighters busy with hundreds of calls after as much as 9 inches of rain fell starting Monday night . Flooding made many roads impassable, trapping people at homes and businesses along the Blue River and Indian Creek, which set a new record of 28.22 feet overnight and topped its banks after record flooding last month. Water spilling out of Indian Creek inundated bridges , businesses, apartments and houses. For just the second time ever, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency alert for the entire Kansas City area . The first time was last August. Johnson County declared a state of local disaster, and an American Red Cross shelter in south Kansas City took in nearly 20 people by Tuesday afternoon , when flood waters started to recede. Early Tuesday in Miami Coun...

(TNS) - Torrential rains fell overnight causing historic flooding in south Kansas City , Mo., and leading to water rescues and evacuations. As many as 9 inches of rain fell since Monday. Early Tuesday firefighters rescued a woman stranded in a tree at 103rd Street and Wornall Road when Indian Creek flooded the area. That creek, which saw record flooding last month, set a new record of 28. 22 feet overnight . A family of seven were trapped on top of their roof after rushing floodwaters surrounded their home at 155th Street and Kenneth Road. The Overland Park Fire Department have been in contact via phone with the family of three adults and four children and their pets. Because they are not in immediate danger and the water levels around them are receding, crews will allow those water levels to drop to safer levels before evacuating the family. Firefighters said the family is calm. Floodwaters were out of the banks of Indian Creek and over bridges as businesses, apartments and home...

Torrential rains caused historic flooding in the Kansas City area Tuesday , leaving one man dead in Kansas and others stranded for hours by high water. Water rescues and evacuations kept police and firefighters busy with hundreds of calls after as much as 9 inches of rain fell starting Monday night . Flooding made many roads impassable, trapping people at homes and businesses along the Blue River and Indian Creek, which set a new record of 28.22 feet overnight and topped its banks after record flooding last month. Water spilling out of Indian Creek inundated bridges , businesses, apartments and houses. For just the second time ever, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency alert for the entire Kansas City area . The first time was last August. Johnson County declared a state of local disaster, and an American Red Cross shelter in south Kansas City took in nearly 20 people by Tuesday afternoon , when flood waters started to recede. Early Tuesday in Miami Coun...

On the day he was set to leave for college, an 18-year-old Hogan Preparatory Academy graduate was instead memorialized at the site of his death just one day prior. Roosevelt Cooper , a 2017 Hogan Prep graduate , was shot and killed Thursday. The 18-year-old was found about 2:45 p.m. shot inside a car in the parking lot of the Save-A-Lot store at 3410 Troost Ave. The store is near Troost and Armour Boulevard. Police have not named the teen, but family members identified him shortly after the shooting. Cooper planned to leave Friday for college at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. Instead family, friends, and former teammates, coaches and teachers attended a vigil for Cooper at the site of his death. Kids like Cooper, a former coach said, are hard to find: hard-working, dedicated and tenacious. Pip Dukes, an assistant basketball coach at Hogan Prep, described Cooper as a talented student-athlete who excelled at football and basketball. He was one of the first players to j...

KANSAS CITY, MO. — Heavy rains led to extreme flooding in the Kansas City, MO metro area. Kansas City Police Department and Kansas City Fire Department had to conduct multiple rescues . A family of 7, and pet dogs, were stranded on a roof in Overland Park. Advertisement Fire crews responded to the Willow Creek Apartments , located on W 99th Terrace between Wornall and Holmes Roads. Water was reported to be rising up the back of the apartments and has flooded the complex's parking lot. Tenants have decided to shelter in place instead of being evacuated. No injuries have been reported in the area. 19, 627 metro utilities customers are without power. Johnson County Emergency says businesses at 103rd and State Line were in danger in “becoming inundated” by Indian Creek. A flood warning was issued for Indian Creek. The Creek is expected to crest at 28.6 feet, which is higher than July 27. It has already reached a record high of 18.3 feet.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Officers are at the scene of a deadly shooting where police say one person was killed on Thursday afternoon in the area of Armour and Troost. Family members tell FOX 4's Shayla Patrick that the victim was just 18-years old. He was leaving Thursday evening to go to Missouri State University in Springfield. They say he was in the area getting a haircut. At about 2:45 p.m., police were called out and found the young man dead inside a car.  Police believe the suspects and victim exchanged gunfire . They say they found a weapon at the scene. Police are still looking for the two suspects. They believe one was hurt. "He was on his way to college tomorrow. He's a good guy, a good fellow. He was just coming to get a haircut and I don't know what else happened," said Floyd Williams, the victim's uncle. Officers searched an apartment building at that location. This is the 92nd homicide of the year, and is the third in three days. 39.099727 -94.5785...

Follow KDKA-TV : Facebook | Twitter OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The search for two escaped inmates considered armed and dangerous moved to northeast Oklahoma on Thursday after they were spotted at a convenience store in the Tulsa suburb of Sapulpa, according to the deputy sheriff leading the investigation. Andrew Foy, 32, and Darren Walp, 37, overpowered prison transport officers in northwest Oklahoma and stole the transport company ’s van Tuesday morning . The van was later found, with an empty gun holster belonging to one of the guards inside. “We believe they could be heading east to Pennsylvania or Delaware,” where both have ties, according to Major County Deputy Gary Swymeler , or they could still be in Oklahoma. “Walp has contacts all over Oklahoma, particularly in Lawton and Walters,” both in the state’s southwestern corner. Swymeler said the two were seen on surveillance video at a Quik Trip store in Sapulpa, where they left the trailer of the semitrailer that was stolen in the O...

This month, a man was arrested in Oklahoma City for trying to detonate 1,000 pounds of explosives in a cargo van parked downtown . The attack, he hoped, would cripple the government and start a revolution. Last October, three men were arrested in Kansas for plotting to bomb an apartment complex and a mosque using four cars laden with explosives. In these febrile days, where terrorists have sought to wreak fear and chaos from Orlando to Paris, and now Barcelona, you’d expect wall-to-wall coverage on cable news about these foiled plots. Terrorism experts would be wheeled out to opine for hours on all angles, from the explosives used to the profile of the would-be attackers to how and why they were radicalized. Instead, the two incidents got barely any coverage — some brief news spots here and there and a few mentions online. Ask any Arab-American or Muslim in America why those incidents weren’t covered ad nauseam and they’ ll reply deadpan : because the would-be attackers were white. So...