The NFL has officially released its 2014 schedule. The Chiefs will open the regular season at home against the Tennessee Titans on Sept. 7 and also will face the Patriots on “Monday Night Football” on Sept. 29 and the Broncos on “Sunday Night Football” on Nov. 30, both at Arrowhead.
Live music’s busy season is now upon us. Here’s a look at some of the best shows rolling into town over the next week or so. Arcade Fire’s previous Kansas City show, in April 2011, topped many best-concert lists that year. This time, the seven-member band is touring on “Reflektor,” its most-recent album, and one that requires a larger ensemble of musicians.
Follow along on your desktop or mobile device during Tuesday’s Royals-Indians game for live stats and updates from Andy McCullough, The Star’s Royals beat reporter. First pitch is set for 6:05 p.m. Central on Fox Sports Kansas City.
Populous leaving offices built for it in the River Market in 2006 for the Board of Trade building near the Country Club Plaza, sports architecture firm needs room for expansion.
Show-Me State Games Torch Run
Easter Parade at Zona Rosa
Sporting KC vs. Montreal Impact fans
Hyde Park Spring Frolic and Egg Hunt
Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City Prom
Community of Christ Church Easter Carnival
The 87th annual Kansas Relays
New Life Family Church Spring Festival
Westport Easter SpEGGtacular
Southcreek Office Park Easter Egg 5K and Bunny Fun Run
Good Friday on the Plaza
Embassy Suites 25th Anniversary Client Party
The search for Frank Haith’s replacement as Missouri’s men’s basketball coach entered its fifth day Tuesday with athletic director Mike Alden bunkered in as promised. Still, Missouri has reached out to former player and assistant Kim Anderson. Also, Texas-El Paso’s Tim Floyd has “emerged as a strong candidate,” according to ESPN.
Brothers Jimmy and David Frantze have signed a lease in the new Plaza Vista, 900 W. 48th Place, just west of the Country Club Plaza. They hope to reopen JJ’s in late summer. About 90 percent of the former JJ’s employees are expected to rejoin the restaurant.
The brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales died Wednesday after falling outside a hotel bar and suffering a head injury, police said.
Five former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders on Tuesday sued the team over a pay system they say had them working hundreds of hours for free at games and at mandatory public appearances at which they were subjected to groping and sexual comments, and one said they had to take a jiggle test so their boss could see how firm their bodies were.
A New Hampshire grand jury has indicted a former Sprint executive on second-degree murder charges in a crash that killed a Vermont couple in December. Robert Dellinger, 53, told investigators he was trying to kill himself when he steered his pick-up truck across an Interstate 89 median in Lebanon.
Rep. Nick Marshall, a Parkville Republican, says an executive order issued by Nixon that allows married same-sex couples to file joint state tax returns violates a voter-approved constitutional amendment. Two other articles of impeachment against Nixon have also been filed.
If a 10-year-old boy must have a tube forced down his throat to keep him alive after he was shot sitting in a car at a Kansas City gas station, then some able-bodied adults can muster the fortitude to call the TIPS Hotline.
Kansas City often can’t compete with much of what Boston — and other East Coast elites such as New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. — can offer. But more optimistically, Kansas City can compete for new residents and jobs on issues that are extremely important to people in general and millennials specifically.
Jodie Foster is a married woman. The 51-year-old Oscar winner wed girlfriend Alexandra Hedison over the weekend, Foster's publicist confirmed Wednesday. Jennifer Allen offered no other details.
If they plan it we will come? We’ll see on Father’s Day weekend. Plans are underway to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Field of Dreams.” Sports stars scheduled to play include former Royals pitcher Bret Saberhagen.
Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain's best-known export, his words and characters famous around the world. It's fitting they were first staged at a playhouse called the Globe. Now the modern-day Shakespeare's Globe theater in London is setting out to test the Bard's maxim that "all the world's a stage" by taking "Hamlet" to every country on Earth, more than 200 in all.
The former bowling alley and ice rink closed five years ago. Johnson County taxpayers now own it, but some are fuming about that, noting that the $3.6 million the county spent to purchase and stabilize the facility over the last 30 months could have been used to address other public needs.
The entry of Spirit promises new competition for Southwest Airlines, which has become the dominant carrier in Kansas City with more than 40 percent of the market. It creates the possibility for travelers that the two airlines will directly compete for business to such cities as Chicago.
