It took a few weeks of research, but National Geographic has confirmed that pop star Lorde was referring to a photo of Kansas City Royals’ baseball legend George Brett when she explained where she got the inspiration for her megahit “Royals.”
To watch him romp in the snow on Sunday, you might not guess Dexter McCluster was born and raised in Largo, Fla., and played college football at Mississippi. And you wouldn’t know that all he knew about playing football in the snow was that it looked like fun on TV and that he couldn’t wait to get out and muck it up and mush through it on Sunday.
A sign posted Sunday morning outside of a Belton Sonic restaurant encouraging the Chiefs to “scalp the Redskins,” “feed them whiskey” and send them “2 reservation,” prompted a quick apology from the restaurant chain.
Three months ago, owner Rita “Peach” Madl learned the Plaza Grill & Cinema in quaint historic downtown Ottawa, Kan., might be the oldest still-operating cinema in the world. Madl’s plans to market the Plaza as the world’s oldest movie theater and create a museum about the history of movies and movie houses.
Roller Warriors Girls Flat Track Derby
Pipefitters union Local 533 Christmas Party
Ugly Sweater Run
Merriam’s Santa Arrival and Christmas Dinner
Red Stocking Breakfast
Mission’s Holiday Lights and Festive Sights
Prairie Village Tree Lighting 2013
Red X Wine Tasting
Kanye West concertgoers at the Sprint Center
Chiefs vs. Broncos tailgaters
Toys and crafts shows at KCI Expo
City Market’s Whoville Holidays
The sting of seeing Carlos Beltran sign with the Yankees is still fresh for the Royals as the Winter Meetings commence their four-day run Monday at a Disney resort. All indications suggest general manager Dayton Moore might now be content to make only minor tweaks to the roster before the Royals convene in mid-February for spring training.
Jerissa Roundtree lost her daughter 20 years ago, but the grief hasn’t faded. “I took two little outfits to the hospital,” she said. “…You’re never expecting to not bring both of your babies home." Roundtree’s twins, Avree and Avana, were born April 17, 1993, at 32 weeks. They were a little more than 4 pounds each. Their story is not unlike those of other black families in Kansas.
Like many schools across the suburbs and rural areas, Center Elementary has had too many children who often don’t have enough food at home. That’s one of the reasons the school became among the first in the Kansas City area to distribute Harvesters’ BackSnacks.
During and just after the war, Jean Jennings Bartik worked alongside the buttoned-down men who helped design the computer technology that no one then knew would come to dominate American life and culture.
The teen who admitted having nonconsensual sex with Daisy Coleman’s 13-year-old friend from Albany, Mo., was taken into the state juvenile justice system. Nearly two years later, the Albany victim’s mother has learned that her daughter’s assailant, then 15, returned home for treatment after two weeks in custody.
When Sharmeen Douglass went Christmas shopping this week, she wasn’t looking for any hot new toys for her four children. She was going for a “retro Christmas”: Barbies, Nerf products, Hot Wheels sets, Slinkys, Silly Putty, hula hoops, My Little Pony, an Easy Bake Oven and Spirograph-style design kits. Nostalgic parents are driving plenty of toy purchases this season.
As part of the District's Ugly Sweater Crawl, PBR had plenty of ugly sweaters wandering around and having a great time.
Today, and on this day for the previous 15 years, we debate whether the BCS got it right. This year, like most, it did with a championship game that matches Florida State and Auburn. So, as we consider this year’s pairings — and there are some attractive ones — let’s plug in this season’s results into next year’s format and pretend the College Football Playoff is already upon us.
A congressional budget deal expected this week might not be a grand bargain to solve the country’s long term fiscal woes, but it is largely what Americans want, according to a new poll by McClatchy Newspapers and the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.
Sporting Kansas City fell behind in all three MLS playoff series this season but cashed in once it got to the MLS Cup Final, where it won on penalty kicks.
The problems include high caseloads, poor documentation and worker inexperience, according to a preliminary report obtained by The Star. Until the Jackson County office clears those hurdles, neither it nor the state Children’s Division can be reaccredited.
The 777X jetliner bid isn’t really about Missouri. This is a labor squabble. Boeing Co. is looking to cut costs in building its new jetliner due to competition from Airbus. And they’re looking to scrap traditional pensions for their workforce to get it.
Every baby is adorable, but the cuteness quotient only increases when that baby dons a Santa hat. Share “Santa Baby” pictures of the babies in your life — two legs or four legs — at Mingle.KansasCity.com.
