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.
During and just after the war, in skirt and saddle shoes, 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Volunteers on the Salvation Army’s annual Shut-in Sunday delivered nearly 600 packages of simple Christmas presents and good cheer. The list of recipients grew from last year, but the city is well behind last year’s pace in the amount of dollars being placed in the seasonal red kettles.
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.
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.
If the Jayhawks continue to struggle shooting from three-point range, expect them to see zone defenses regularly.
Kansas City's first Ugly Sweater Run 5K was held Saturday morning at Washington Square downtown Kansas. It's part of a nationwide event that draws thousands of runners and walkers in several cities.
