Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III would seem to be the kind of quarterback Chiefs inside linebacker Derrick Johnson would love to face. Or maybe not. “Not really,” said Johnson, the Chiefs’ leading tackler. “Any quarterback who can run, you get less sleep because you take away one thing and they can do another.”
The area’s coffee community strives to bring variety to our cups, but the trade doesn’t flow just one way. Local professionals regularly export their own knowledge to coffee-growing countries. The resulting relationships yield better coffee for us while creating more profit, opportunity and security for farmers and their communities.
The death of a man who had apparently climbed into the wrong car in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot during a Chiefs game Sunday has been ruled a homicide, police said Wednesday. The ruling means Kyle Van Winkle’s death was caused by the hands of another but does not necessarily mean criminal charges will be filed.
Missouri led the SEC with 18 interceptions and finished the regular season tied for first with Alabama in passing yards allowed per attempt but the Tigers’ secondary will face a new challenge — run support — against Auburn, which has the nation’s fifth-most prolific rushing attack, in Saturday’s SEC championship game.
Kanye West fans 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
Salvation Army Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving travelers Wednesday at Kansas City International Airport
Thanksgiving travelers Tuesday at Kansas City International Airport
The Bannister Federal Complex, a massive defense plant built in World War II to manufacture warplane engines and continued into the Cold War and beyond making nuclear weapons parts, is expected to be demolished beginning in 2016 and prepared for future redevelopment.
Dan Meers, the man who plays the Chiefs’ KC Wolf mascot who was seriously injured while rehearsing a pregame skit two weeks ago, has been released from the hospital and is resting at home. “He is facing a long road of recovery,” said his attorney, Tim Dollar.
Screaming and topless, a woman chased a man through a Lenexa department store Monday after she caught him attempting to photograph her inside a dressing room. The man made it out of the store, but Lenexa police were able to arrest a suspect several blocks away.
For several years now, we’ve asked notable musicians, writers, music professionals and fans to give us their top albums. And as has been the case for a long, long time, no single album has emerged as the year’s consensus best or favorite. A few names and titles show up on several lists. And two of them are recordings by local bands: the Grisly Hand and PedalJets.
Don Hillbrant, 84, recently decided that at his age and with a couple of heart surgeries behind him, he had one more new car left in him. And he did it with a splash. At the Kansas City, Kan., Fairfax plant on Tuesday, he rode off the assembly line in his new Buick LaCrosse.
On Tuesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell came to Kansas City as part of the league’s increasingly omnipresent damage-control effort regarding head injuries. But he wound up sharing the stage with a lawsuit filed against the Chiefs and another event held at the same time to promote concussion awareness.
The jet stream hunkered to the south Wednesday, promising to bring nearly a week of temperatures that could dip to 20-below or worse in the northern midsection of the country, and forcing much of the rest of the nation to deal with unexpectedly cool temperatures. In Minnesota, the cold has forced Salvation Army bell ringers inside and cancelled holiday parties, while dense, cold air sunk into Rocky Mountain valleys and kept some lower elevations below freezing in the West.
You often hear about the travails of minor-league baseball: the long bus rides, the low pay, etc. But Royals prospect Jason Adam’s time in the minor leagues includes dating a beauty queen. That’s because Adam’s girlfriend, Kelsey Miller, was crowned Miss Delaware USA last week.
Updated Dec. 3: This man is wanted for assault on a law enforcement officer and armed criminal action. If you have information about any of these fugitives, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (816-474-8477), go to KCCrimeStoppers.com, or text TIP452 plus message and send to 274637. All calls are anonymous.
Milly Lally wills the energy to raise her voice above the deafening rattle of the wheelchair van. “Am I being crazy?” she asks her hospice aide, Terry Robertson, whom Lally calls “Pat” or “Patty” because that’s what Lally thinks she looks like. The two women have just departed NewMark Care Center north of the Missouri River and are making the half-hour bumpy jaunt to the West Bottoms so 83-year-old Lally can receive her first tattoo.
The Royals’ push to reacquire free-agent outfielder Carlos Beltran accelerated Tuesday in face-to-face meetings and negotiations in Kansas City. The Royals pushed Beltran, 36, to the top of their offseason target list once they filled their need for a veteran starting pitcher by signing left-hander Jason Vargas to a four-year deal for $32 million on Nov. 22.
Hip-hop megastar Kanye West drew fans to the Sprint Center on Tuesday evening for a performance on his Yeezus Tour, West’s first solo tour in five years.
“Marijuana is a noxious drug with proven medical side effects that trump any reason to legalize its use,” Ravikumar Chockalingam and Dragan Svrakic write. “Our understanding of this drug and its consequences negates all reasoning to make this readily accessible to public.”
