KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The images often are hauntingly similar. Family members hold the strings of brightly colored balloons and tell a gathered crowd about a slain loved one. A pastor prays for an …

Andrea Andries moved her family from Florida to Kansas City in March, hoping to escape the violence in Jacksonville and put her two oldest sons on a better path. Her 14-year-old son Justin’s new …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It should have been a happy story: Two young sisters meet for the first time. But it happened under unthinkable circumstances. Most of the time, in FOX4’s Crime Files series, the parents of a homicide victim plea for answers. But a lot of the time, those victims are parents themselves.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – “You should be able to not have to have gunshots waking you up, or being a soundtrack of your life,” Mayor Quinton Lucas told a crowd at his first Town Hall on Saturday. Lucas calls public safety in Kansas City his paramount concern. Since he took over the mayoral office almost exactly five months ago, Kansas City has had …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A metro group says it knows how to stop the cycle of violent crime in Kansas City; it starts with loving those left behind and teaching them how to break the cycle. When the police lights fade and the sirens stop, when the cameras quit rolling, time still marches on. Lakeisha Chatmon knows this better than anyone.