Witnesses at Arrowhead Stadium saw a tailgater pummel a man who apparently had climbed into the wrong vehicle Sunday, according to new details obtained by The Star. After the beating, the tailgater and his friends went back to their vehicles to watch the Chiefs game on TV. But when someone noticed the man was not breathing and summoned police, the tailgater fled the stadium.
The most shocking aspect of Kanye West's spectacular concert Tuesday night at the Sprint Center wasn't another suspect remark from the brash rapper. The meager attendance of less than 4,500 seemed inconceivably small for one of the most vital artists in popular music.
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.
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.”
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
Salvation Army Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving travelers Wednesday at Kansas City International Airport
Thanksgiving travelers Tuesday at Kansas City International Airport
The Missouri Senate approved an incentives package that could top $1.7 billion over two decades as a way to tempt Boeing Co. to build its next-generation airliners in St. Louis. Meanwhile, Kansas officials are putting together “a very robust bid” for Wichita.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama put narrowing the wage gap and raising the minimum wage high on his remaining agenda. And on Thursday, advocates for higher fast-food wages plan walkouts and rallies in 100 cities nationwide, including Kansas City.
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.
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.
The sprawling Bannister Federal Complex, which opened in World War II to make warplane engines and stayed busy through the Cold War and after supplying nuclear weapons parts, will be demolished beginning in 2016.
The woman was trying on bras inside a Lenexa department store dressing room when a man tried to photograph her with a cellphone. Jeremy F. Bradley, 35, of Raytown, was charged in Lenexa Municipal Court with a misdemeanor charge of breach of privacy.
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.
In Texas, a TV station reports that the new leader will be outgoing Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin.
Hectic holiday schedules make hanging out with friends hard. Between Black Friday and Christmas, calendars feel the crunch. And so do our wallets, what with all of the traveling and long lists of loved ones to shop for. That’s why I like the idea of giving an experience as a gift.
Maria Mayela Urizar was among those breaking a two-day fast this week, an effort calling for immigration reform. She has allies she doesn’t suspect.
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 minus 20 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 canceled holiday parties, while dense, cold air sunk into Rocky Mountain valleys and kept some lower elevations freezing in the West.
