Sporting Kansas City won the MLS Cup after beating Real Salt Lake 7-6 in a penalty-kick shootout. For captain Jimmy Nielsen, who came to the team when it played in a minor-league baseball park, winning the title at Sporting Park didn’t come without some emotion.
But even with the galling way Missouri’s loss in the SEC championship was administered, with Auburn running berserk for a stupefying 565 yards, the defeat isn’t the prevailing signature of Mizzou’s season. Not remotely. “I’m not going to shed a tear. I’m not going to shed one tear,” senior receiver L’Damian Washington said. “Because I’m proud.”
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.
For nine weeks, the Chiefs were an unstoppable force, winning games in almost every way imaginable. A five-game run of playing backup quarterbacks and downtrodden teams ended along with the winning. So did a relatively injury-free season when Houston suffered a subluxation of his right elbow two weeks ago against San Diego and offensive tackle Branden Albert hyperextended a knee last week against Denver. Since that 9-0 start, the Chiefs have not won a game in more than a month.
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
Frontier Feline Fanciers Cat Show
Breakfast with Santa at Mahaffie
Mayor's Christmas Tree Lighting
Black Friday at Zona Rosa
Pilgrim Run 5K
They show Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro was eager to create a new school system, even as the long-beleaguered but stabilized district was preparing to celebrate its best academic improvement in years. A rushed bidding process landed CEE-Trust a contract to develop a long-range overhaul for the district’s failing schools.
Colorado’s Askia Booker hit a running three-pointer in the final seconds as the Buffaloes took down No. 2 Kansas 75-72 on Saturday afternoon in Boulder.
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.
Using vintage jewelry, floral elements, unorthodox colors and repurposed decorations, Erica Kay Thowe, owner of Erica Kay Interior Design, Dianne Ripper, of DR Designs Jewelry , Studio Dan Meiners and Shannon Myers and Erica Rigdon, co-owners of Charm, put a fresh spin on a staple of holiday decor.
If you watch the new “Bonnie & Clyde,” you’ll eventually find yourself asking, “Hold on, did they really do that?” The four-hour, two-part miniseries based on the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow begins Sunday on three cable networks, with Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch as the notorious Depression-era outlaws. Here’s how it all really went down.
What chance might there be that the season’s occasion of joy and giving will ease somewhat — if only temporarily — the climate of rancor and contention that has come to characterize the conduct of our public affairs?
Devon Carney, who has made changes to the Kansas City ballet since his appointment as artistic director last summer, honored Todd Bolender’s choreography while making a few contributions, retaining this staple of the Kansas City holiday season for 32 years of the company’s 41-year history.
Sarah Marshall is a dreamer. She also is the co-founder of Boost Kansas City, a group with 250 members looking to change the world, one person at a time.
Even 72 years later, the memories of Dec. 7, 1941, are vivid for the three remaining Kansas City area Pearl Harbor survivors. Saturday afternoon at Sporting Park, Edmond Russell, Dorwin Lamkin and Jack Carson stood before their largest audience yet as the veterans were cheered by a standing-room-only crowd.
President Barack Obama and the nation deserve a new slate of leaders to take over Health and Human Services, and thus the implementation of Obamacare, several parts of which have already been postponed a year.
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.
The Shawnee Mission Christmas Tree Lighting was held Friday evening at the Sylvester Powell Community Center. Outside were fire pots, s’mores, popcorn and horse-drawn sleigh rides. On the inside was the toy store, face painting, cookies and Santa.
Saturday nights are always fun at PBR with DJ Soap playing the hits and plenty of victims trying to conquer the mechanical bull.
