Noelle Alviz-Gransee

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Noelle Alviz-Gransee

Ashleigh Tomlin was in her kitchen Saturday morning with her family when they all heard a massive bang. Her next-door neighbor’s house in Gladstone had just exploded. She and her family hit the ground and a ceiling lamp came down, hitting Tomlin on the head and giving her a concussion. They thought a plane had crashed. “We were just freaking out. I mean, we thought it was an attack,” she said.

6 days ago | kansascity.com | Noelle Alviz-Gransee

A next-door neighbor's Ring camera captured the fatal home explosion in Gladstone that killed a man and dog, leveled the house they were in and caused significant damage to nearby residences on Saturday morning. The cause of the devastating blast is still under investigation as of Sunday afternoon. The investigation has been turned over to the Missouri Fire Marshal of the Missouri Division of Fire Safety. Ashleigh Tomlin, who lives next door, was in her kitchen when she hit the ground.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Noelle Alviz-Gransee

A next-door neighbor’s Ring camera captured the fatal home explosion in Gladstone that killed a man and dog, leveled the house they were in and caused significant damage to nearby residences on Saturday morning. The cause of the devastating blast is still under investigation as of Sunday afternoon. The investigation has been turned over to the Missouri Fire Marshal of the Missouri Division of Fire Safety. Ashleigh Tomlin, who lives next door, was in her kitchen when she hit the ground.

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Noelle Alviz-Gransee

Despite the presence of a SWAT team, K-9 officers and KC Pet Project officers, officials were unable to take control of five pit bulls that viciously attacked a Kansas City man one night last fall, killing him, according to recently released documents detailing the events of that night. And although city ordinance allows officers to destroy dangerous dogs that pose a public threat, officers instead left the dogs in the fenced yard of their owner at the scene, those documents show.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Noelle Alviz-Gransee

Two Kansas City men have been charged in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Kansas City gas station earlier this month. K'Vontaye Redmond and Lamont Buchanan each face one count of second degree murder and one count of armed criminal action, according to a news release from the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office. Police were called around 2 p.m. May 10 to a Shell Gas station at 8435 East 63rd Street, where they found 16-year-old Matim Nunley suffering from an injury.