Officials concede they are only halfway to meeting the goal they set for themselves two years ago to tear down 1,000 dangerous buildings. A funding shortage and opposition from neighborhood groups have hampered demolitions.

At Starlight this week, it’s like the old days: putting together a large-scale musical with a huge cast in record time.

The health care industry is fueled more by workers who have an associate degree or less than it is by workers who have earned bachelor’s degrees in health-related fields. A Brookings Institution study says the less educated health care workforce makes up more than half of the nation’s health care labor pool. In the Kansas City area, it’s 46.1 percent.

Nori Aoki spread his arms and waited. At 11:34 p.m., four hours and 23 minutes after an interminable, preposterous night at the ballpark began, the Royals rushed to greet him in the dirt near second base. Aoki cracked a walkoff single in the bottom of the fourteenth inning on Thursday, plating Lorenzo Cain to usher his club to a 2-1 victory over the Indians.

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was suspended for two games Thursday for violating the NFL’s personal-conduct policy, a relatively light punishment that some say underscores the problem victims face when they go public with domestic-violence allegations.