Remember one year ago, when the Chiefs were well on their way to a two-win season? Their utter destruction of Washington on a snowy Sunday in the nation’s capital served as a stark reminder of the completeness of their turnaround.
Sporting Kansas City won the MLS Cup after beating Real Salt Lake 7-6 in a penalty-kick shootout. For captain Jimmy Nielsen, who came to the team when it played in a minor-league baseball park, winning the title at Sporting Park didn’t come without some emotion.
They show Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro was eager to create a new school system, even as the long-beleaguered but stabilized district was preparing to celebrate its best academic improvement in years. A rushed bidding process landed CEE-Trust a contract to develop a long-range overhaul for the district’s failing schools.
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.
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
Frontier Feline Fanciers Cat Show
Breakfast with Santa at Mahaffie
Kansas State will play Michigan in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl on Dec. 28 in Tempe, Ariz. The Wildcats finished the regular season 7-5 overall and 5-4 in the Big 12 Conference.
Denver kicker Matt Prater kicked an NFL-record 64-yard field goal as the first half expired in the Broncos' game against Tennessee on Sunday. The 64-yarder bested the record of 63 set by New Orleans' Tom Dempsey in 1970 and tied by Denver's Jason Elam in 1998, Oakland's Sabastian Janikowski in 2011 and San Francisco's David Akers last season.
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.
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.
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.
But even with the galling way Missouri’s loss in the SEC championship was administered, with Auburn running berserk for a stupefying 565 yards, the defeat isn’t the prevailing signature of Mizzou’s season. Not remotely. “I’m not going to shed a tear. I’m not going to shed one tear,” senior receiver L’Damian Washington said. “Because I’m proud.”
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.
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.
Readers don’t always have the same opinions as critics. and there’s nothing wrong with healthy disagreement. Part of the reason that a bad review of something we’ve enjoyed stings is that the critic’s negative take feels like personal criticism. That’s an impulse we should all resist.
Using vintage jewelry, floral elements, unorthodox colors and repurposed decorations, Erica Kay Thowe, owner of Erica Kay Interior Design, Dianne Ripper, of DR Designs Jewelry , Studio Dan Meiners and Shannon Myers and Erica Rigdon, co-owners of Charm, put a fresh spin on a staple of holiday decor.
If you watch the new “Bonnie & Clyde,” you’ll eventually find yourself asking, “Hold on, did they really do that?” The four-hour, two-part miniseries based on the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow begins Sunday on three cable networks, with Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch as the notorious Depression-era outlaws. Here’s how it all really went down.
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.
What chance might there be that the season’s occasion of joy and giving will ease somewhat — if only temporarily — the climate of rancor and contention that has come to characterize the conduct of our public affairs?
