A Botanical Heights neighborhood warehouse continues to burn Thursday morning. Shortly after 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, firefighters reported a partial collapse of the Park Warehouse Service building in the 3900 block of Park Avenue, where at least 100 firefighters were working to extinguish a five-alarm fire that began more than an hour earlier.

A lawsuit over a burned-out building in St. Joseph has inflicted "reputational harm" to Kansas City-based Foutch Brothers LLC, says a claim by the developer behind Kemper Arena’s amateur-sports makeover.

U.S. farmers have overwhelmed state governments with thousands of complaints about crop damage linked to new versions of weed killers, threatening future sales by manufacturers Monsanto Co (MON.N) and BASF SE (BASFn.DE).

Experts say the number of deer vs. car collisions rises in October because it is deer mating season. In 2016, the Missouri Highway Patrol says six people died in deer-vehicle accidents, saying deer are on the move more during mating season. Last season, more than 450 people were injured on Missouri roadways.

Three rounds of heavy rain inundated Kansas City Monday into early Tuesday, triggering the second major flash flood in one part of the metro area in less than a month.

Employers planning to host solar eclipse viewing parties should be aware of employee safety and workers compensation concerns. On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will take place and will be visible from cities including Portland, Oregon; Denver; Kansas City, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta; and Charlotte, North Carolina.

A Travelers Cos. Inc. unit is not obligated to provide coverage in an incident in which carbon monoxide that flowed from a recreational fishing boat’s engine killed two men and injured a third, because of its policy’s pollution exclusion, says a federal appeals court, in affirming a lower court ruling.

The driver of a car trying to escape a locked gate at Ponak’s did up to $200,000 in damages to the popular Mexican restaurant on the Boulevard. The crash happened July 1st, but Monday Kansas City Police released photos of the suspected "party" crashers.

Bruce Redding returned home from the gym Sunday afternoon to find an SUV on his roof and much of the front of his house destroyed.
Authorities say the speeding SUV had hit an embankment and launched into the air, like something out of a Hollywood movie, before crashing down on Redding’s roof in the 5900 block of Lillian Avenue.

A state employee who said he got hurt at work and claimed disability from the state’s workers’ compensation insurer, but was actually injured riding a motorcycle at a Bozeman racetrack, has admitted to a felony and will pay a $3,000 fine. Boone Block, 34, of Clyde Park, pleaded guilty June 14 to false claim to a public agency.

Johnson & Johnson is seizing upon a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from Monday limiting where injury lawsuits can be filed to fight off claims it failed to warn women that talcum powder could cause ovarian cancer.

Everything is big in Texas, including hailstorms. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) said today that insurance claims for hail damage in Texas last year exceeded the previous two years combined.

After 10 to 15 inches of rain in the past seven days, much of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas is underwater. So much precipitation has fallen that major rivers have spread well beyond their banks. Muddy brown water is at the rooftops in the hardest-hit communities.

Flood damage is mounting to the south and west of the Cape Girardeau area, with many victims in the hardest-hit areas experiencing loss of phone service, including cellphones, and in some places electricity and tap water.

Residents we spoke to in Neosho say as much as three feet of water got into their homes. One man says he lost everything, while others were able to salvage some of their stuff.