Ready for another battering from The Star’s Office of Frothy Facts? For our fourth collection, our squad of crack researchers have dug up a dead jockey, a CIA spy cat, whale junk, Kim Jong Un, lost underwear and Superman, not in that order.
KCP&L in one jolt is going to make its service territory one of the best places in the nation to drive an electric car. The utility, in an announcement set for this afternoon, plans to install 1,001 public electric chargers, a 2,400 percent boost over the approximately 40 units now available in the area.
Details of what happened Jan. 9 during an attempted robbery at the gun store at 5725 Nieman Road were revealed publicly for the first time Monday in court documents. Jon Bieker, 44, who owned the store with his wife, was shot and died later in a hospital. Four men — Londro E. Patterson III, 20, Deanthony A. Wiley, 19, Nicquan K. Midgyett, 19, and Hakeem W. Malik, 18 — are charged with first-degree felony murder.
Yordano Ventura quit school at 14 and was working construction until his big break: a tryout that led to a spot in the Kansas City Royals’ academy in the Dominican Republic. But even after making the major leagues and pitching in the World Series, Ventura wouldn’t live anywhere else than Las Terrenas, his hometown, where he trained on the beach and swam in the ocean.
We don’t need a presidential address to know that the nation’s financial health is improving. The culture wars are coming back. Guns, school prayer, abortion, drugs, same-sex marriage, Beyoncé or Ted Nugent. If jobs continue to grow and wages increase, the 2016 presidential election debate may seem numbingly familiar.
Kansas City International Airport is beloved by many residents, mostly for its convenience, so suggesting major changes to it could be hard. But look at the issue another way. There’s simply no reason for the city or airlines — through whatever project they develop — to make it inconvenient for local travelers to use a renovated or new KCI, especially if they want voters to ultimately endorse the plan.
In 1957, students bought “Utah Highlands” from the painter for $750 as a class gift. Today it’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The school district says only that it’s in a “secure location.”
The middle class that President Barack Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last week as the foundation of the American economy has been shrinking for almost half a century. Since 2000, the middle-class share of households has continued to narrow, the main reason being that more people have fallen to the bottom. At the same time, fewer of those in this group fit the traditional image of a married couple with children at home.
Two thought-provoking columns about Big 12 men’s basketball over the weekend questioned the power of the conference. But no one should be surprised that Texas Tech, led by a coach with a national championship ring, could pull off an upset. And as for Kansas’ 10 straight titles sapping power from the conference, the league has performed about as well as it did before KU’s run.
Two thought-provoking columns about Big 12 men’s basketball over the weekend questioned the power of the conference. But no one should be surprised that Texas Tech, led by a coach with a national championship ring, could pull off an upset. And as for Kansas’ 10 straight titles sapping power from the conference, the league has performed about as well as it did before KU’s run.
We don’t need a presidential address to know that the nation’s financial health is improving. The culture wars are coming back. Guns, school prayer, abortion, drugs, same-sex marriage, Beyoncé or Ted Nugent. If jobs continue to grow and wages increase, the 2016 presidential election debate may seem numbingly familiar.
After New England quarterback Tom Brady talked with the media on Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest (the self-proclaimed Royals fan) took a shot at the Patriots star.
