A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to snatching an 18-year-old girl from a store parking lot, raping her and strangling her with her own belt before dumping her body in a park.Edwin Hall, 27, will be sentenced to life in prison without parole in the case of...

An attorney for Planned Parenthood says a grand jury has refused to issue an indictment against its clinic in suburban Kansas City.Attorney Pedro Irigonegaray (Ir-uh-GONE-uh-gar-rye) says the Johnson County grand jury issued a verdict of “no true...

A judge has approved a plan for handling patient records sought by a grand jury investigating a suburban Kansas City Planned Parenthood clinic.Johnson County District Judge Kevin Moriarty approved the plan Thursday despite objections from the prosecutor,...

A woman found dead in her apartment with her malnourished infant twins died of undetermined natural causes, according to the Kansas medical examiner’s office.The body of Virginia Njoroge was found Nov. 16 after a neighbor reported that she had not seen...

Authorities responding to a report of a foul odor found malnourished 3-week-old twins under a bed in an apartment containing their mother’s decomposing remains.Both infants were taken to a hospital Friday, where one, a girl, later died. Her twin brother...

Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. said Thursday it had settled all intellectual property litigation with rival TomTom NV, including lawsuits in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Wisconsin and Texas.The two companies didn’t disclose details of...

Sprint Nextel Corp. has proposed paying $57.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it robbed billions of dollars from shareholders when it combined two tracking stocks in early 2004.Johnson County District Judge Kevin Moriarty has given the...