The Westboro Baptist Church has long used boisterous pickets to bring attention to its anti-gay stance. But for the last few months, a group across the street from the church’s compound has been its own using high-profile stunts to gain attention for its causes. For example, a 5-year-old girl sold ‘Pink Lemonade for Peace.’ On Saturday, they’ll host an outdoor same-sex marriage.
How and why is still a mystery, but a missing elderly Garnett, Kan., couple headed to Illinois has been found — in upper Michigan. They were found in Mio, Mich. — 410 miles north of Dwight, Ill., their original destination.
Apparently, Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks. In a terse release issued Wednesday, Men's Wearhouse said it has fired the face of the company and its executive chairman, George Zimmer, who appeared in its TV commercials with the slogan "You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it."
Down 4-3 to the Indians in the top of the ninth Tuesday, the Royals got the first two batters on base. David Lough and Mike Moustakas singled. Things started to go wrong when Chris Getz — normally a very good bunter — struck out on a slider after failing to get a bunt down. Then David Lough got almost two-thirds of the way down the line from home plate before turning around.
FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains ends
A look back at TWA Flight 800
Planes of all kinds at Paris Air Show
Steve Gleason through the years
Nigella Lawson through the years
Heat's overtime escape to defend title
Cher through the years
Star Shots | Best photos from June 18
Indians 4, Royals 3
International cat and dog shows in Germany
Burberry fashions at London spring summer 2014 show
Entertainment Greg Louganis, Eva Longoria, Roselyn Sanchez, Yoko Ono
House packed with ammo, fireworks, clutter burns in Overland Park
Sporting Kansas City players participate in Exotic Driving Experience
Deck collapses at Shuckers restaurant
KU program teaches children with autism how to swim
Shakespeare Festival presents As You Like It
Raw Video: Dominator 3 makes appearance at Kauffman Stadium
Royals first-round pick Hunter Dozier address the media
High angle rescue
Tanker explosion closes I-70 near I-435, Manchester
Royals comments on Hunter Dozier
Tour of the Jackson County Truman Courthouse in Independence
Chiefs owner Clark Hunt excited about team
Monday night at the T-Bones game
Mary J. Blige concertgoers
Parkville River Jam
Mid-Continent Regional Convention and Train Show
City Market on Saturday morning
Kenny Chesney concertgoers
Eighth annual Juneteenth celebration in Kansas City, Kan.
Run The Good Race
Fast Fridays at KC Trends Motorsports
Jazz in the Woods
National Flag Day Korean War Memorial
Urban Scouting BBQ
Party Pics: Summer Beer Festival at McCoy's
The Pedaljets stay grounded while keeping the good vibes alive and aloft
Party Pics: Saving Abel after party at Angel's Rock Bar
Party Pics | Westport Beer Festival 2013
Party Pics: Saturday nights at Ernie Biggs
Party Pics: Crawldo Waldo 2013
Party Pics: Waldo Crawldo at the Well
Party Pics: Blue Corner Battles at VooDoo Lounge
Party Pics: Waldo Crawldo at Tanner's
Party Pics: Jazzoo 2013
Scenes of Summer: What’s onstage at 13 theaters across KC
A Gilded Summer: The West 18th Street Fashion Show
House packed with ammo, fireworks, clutter burns in Overland Park
Sporting Kansas City players participate in Exotic Driving Experience
Deck collapses at Shuckers restaurant
KU program teaches children with autism how to swim
Shakespeare Festival presents As You Like It
Raw Video: Dominator 3 makes appearance at Kauffman Stadium
Taco Bell plans to test a "Power Protein" menu that it's hoping will eventually be hit with its core audience - young men. The menu represents the first products to stem from Taco Bell's announcement in April that it would work to provide more balanced options. Fast-food chains across the industry have been touting healthy new eats in hopes of losing their junk food image.
Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro is to be applauded for getting out in front with guidelines for student transfers from unaccredited districts. The Missouri legislature could have resolved the ambiguities in its transfer statute years ago, but chose to let the courts and state bureaucrats hash it out.
On the surface, the antiquated gravel track and absence of field amenities at Penney High School in Hamilton, Mo., make baffling what blossomed from here earlier this month in Eugene, Ore: Lindsay Vollmer, a sophomore at Kansas whose hometown training hinged on what she playfully called “strange stuff,” won the NCAA heptathlon championship to help stake the Jayhawks to the first women’s national title in school history.
Jennifer Kerr was looking for a way to improve her family’s future in 2009 when she decided an education at Vatterott College would be her key. But the Lee’s Summit single mother said the college deceived her. A Jackson County jury found in favor of Kerr and found that Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.
One of Johnson County’s stellar students, Olathe Northwest High School's Cassie Wang is now headed to Harvard, but Harvard is getting more than a scholar. It is getting a philanthropist, an athlete and a young woman who is on a mission to make the world a better place.
Westport's Summer Beer Festival, presented by Sporting KC, took place in the street right outside the doors of McCoy's where patrons got to sample nearly 100 beers from 37 breweries.
Former investigators on Wednesday called on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the cause, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys. On Wednesday, Area Transportation Authority chairman Robbie Makinen and Johnson County Commissioner Steve Klika will present a plan to make the ATA “the regional transit authority it was meant to be.”
Cher is no stranger to tabloid fodder. The 67-year-old singer who has spent most of her life in the spotlight offered this advice to young artists on navigating the world of paparazzi attention: "You're screwed."
Federal investigators used secret surveillance warrants to identify Khalid Ouazzani, who awaits sentencing in Missouri next month on terrorism-related charges, as part of the scheme, Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce told the House intelligence committee.
The commission is to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday to pick a new commissioner who could swing the balance between a panel controlled by Mayor Mark Holland or one led by Ann Murguia, who lost to Holland in the April mayoral election. With finalists Don Budd and Nathan Barnes both delinquent in recent years, Holland said the commission should consider reopening the selection process.
LeBron James shrugged off a poor start and got 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer with 5.2 seconds to play to force overtime and the Miami Heat staved off elimination with a 103-100 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in game six of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night.
Tommy Thompson, health and human services secretary under President George W. Bush, and pharmacist Sarah Sellers said they founded the Working Group on Pharmaceutical Safety to ensure that all the medications taken by U.S. consumers are safe and effective.
