Police in Raleigh, N.C., filled out an incident report after finding Miller in a car with a black male prostitute dressed as a woman, said Douglas McCullough, who in 1987 prosecuted Miller on charges of possessing hand grenades and mailing a threatening communication. McCullough said the prostitute case was never prosecuted.
The problem with the Royals’ Yordano Ventura, who makes his seventh major-league start Friday in Baltimore, is that nobody knows. This is the wonder in watching him pitch. It is also the danger. The thrill. The fear. Baseball is a world where everything is calculated, by computer or by intuition, and Ventura doesn’t fit any of the formulas. He is the size of a high school sophomore and throws a baseball, literally, harder than anyone on earth. What can you make of a guy like this?
Drivers who traverse Interstate 35 on the Kansas side can expect to wrestle with construction at three interchanges, starting with a ramp closure on Friday and more closures into next week. These projects are not part of the massive Johnson County Gateway Project scheduled to begin early next month at the Kansas 10, Interstate 35 and I-435 interchange.
If you put much stock in basketball recruiting rankings, the rich continue to get richer in the Big 12 and Southeastern conferences. Kansas features two players in the top six of Rivals’ final top 150 rankings for the class of 2014, which were released on Thursday morning. Kentucky has four players in the top 30. Defending SEC champ Florida boasts three signees in the top 50.
Excellence in Education Banquet
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
Maybe another movie will come along like “Bridesmaids” that pairs funny women with an actual plot. Until then, “The Other Woman” joins “The Heat” and similar wannabes in wasting legitimate comedic chemistry on ’80s sitcom formulas.
The firm plans to lease 65,000 square feet in the building at 4800 Main St. The building was bought in January by Mariner Real Estate Management LLC of Leawood. It lost its main tenant last summer when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange halted operations there, ending more than a century of grain trading in Kansas City.
Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles is coming off another brilliant season in which he led the NFL with 19 touchdowns and ranked second in yards from scrimmage with 1,980. So whom does he want to emulate this season?
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.
Fred W. Sauceman introduces his new book “Buttermilk & Bible Burgers” with some reflections on what “Appalachia is” to him. As the one-year anniversary of Chow Town draws near, let’s reflect on what Kansas City’s culinary scene is to us. Here are my 52:
Perhaps we should resolve to practice the arts of conversation and long-form communication, if only for a few minutes each day or week, lest we lose them forever.
There’s plenty of speculation about who Missouri will hire as its next men’s basketball coach, but only one candidate is known to have been contacted by someone affiliated with the Tigers’ search: Central Missouri coach Kim Anderson. So who else are the Tigers targeting to succeed Frank Haith as the search closes in on one week? We order the possibilities.
In a long-running dispute, Historic Preservation Commission will take up proposal to shutter four apartment buildings on Armour Boulevard.
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.
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.
A player-led movement to bring back a fired William Chrisman High School girls basketball coach is headed to the hallways. A week after 11 students wrote letters to the Independence School District Board of Education, voicing their anger and confusion over the firing of Lindsay Thompson, the players and coach said they have received no clear explanation from school or district administration as to why she was dismissed as coach.
His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, a grandson of Saudi Arabia’s ruler, came to Kansas City for opening ceremonies of the “Roads of Arabia” exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Wednesday. Museum officials and the prince himself say the collection of 200-plus artifacts, excavated over the last four decades, shows that Arabia was not some distant desert outpost but a center of culture and innovation.
The five Kansas City area runners featured in a Sunday Star story completed the historic Boston Marathon on Monday during an emotional day for the city and for the cheering crowds estimated at 1 million people.
