Lee’s Summit firefighters were called out just after 2 p.m. Friday, to 806 N.E. Ridgeview Drive off of Chipman Road in response to a fire on the top floor of a four-plex.

The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District may have to cut as much as $5 million from it’s budget for the 2010-2011 school year, after the state announced a possible 4-percent reduction in aid for public school districts.

Two Lee’s Summit men have been charged with armed criminal action for their alleged involvement in a robbery that took place early Wednesday morning, according to the Lee’s Summit Police Department.

Monkeys run wild through high school auditorium - it’s a headline. When they do it to “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns and Roses, it’s Lee’s Summit North High School’s production of “The Jungle Book.”

At the first candidate roundtable held by the Lee’s Summit Chamber of Commerce Wednesday at the Gamber Center, the focus may have been on Lee’s Summit 360 Strategic Plan Key Performance Areas economic development and transportation, but it was difficult to ignore the first barbs traded between mayoral candidates Randy Rhoads and Karen Messerli.

Lee’s Summit Police Department detectives are requesting assistance identifying a suspect who is allegedly responsible for the theft of a Blackberry Curve, valued at more than $300.

Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the 28th and final defendant in a drug-trafficking conspiracy was sentenced in federal court for his role in distributing hundreds of thousands of ecstasy pills, worth approximately $2 million, in Jackson County.

All three candidates for mayor of Lee’s Summit got to make their case in front of voters and the Citizens for Excellence in Lee’s Summit City Government Tuesday night at the Emaline Ballroom.

Once again council member Nick Swearngin is going bald.

A former Missouri lawmaker has testified before a federal grand jury investigating bribery allegations against ex-House Speaker Rod Jetton.