The latest brainchild of Sporting Kansas City, the proposed National Training and Coaching Development Center in Kansas City, Kan., is another sign that KC is becoming the soccer capital of the United States.

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.

A condemned Arizona inmate gasped for more than an hour and a half during his execution Wednesday before he died in an episode sure to add to the scrutiny surrounding the death penalty in the U.S.

The upcoming City Market Crawfish Festival is a “midsummer Mardi Gras party” with live music and Cajun delicacies such as etouffee, jambalaya and red beans and rice.

For the first time in three decades, scientists are about to revisit one of North America's most remarkable troves of ancient fossils: the bones of tens of thousands of animals piled at least 30 feet deep at the bottom of a sinkhole-type cave.