Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates. Tim Cook testified at a hearing Tuesday by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which released a report Monday attacking Apple's tax practices.
Big 12 baseball champion Kansas State took home top individuals honors by the conference on Tuesday, led by player of the year Ross Kivett.
The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 - in the heat of the presidential campaign - that agents had improperly targeted political groups that vehemently opposed President Barack Obama's policies.
As Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant watched the horrifying images Monday as a tornado ripped through suburban Moore, the emotions came bubbling to the surface and so did the need to help. Durant pledged $1 million for tornado relief through his family foundation on Tuesday, eager to help a devastated area begin to rebuild. The Thunder also announced a $1 million donation, as did the NBA and players’ union.
Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, a next-generation entertainment console that promises to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year.
Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.
While most in this tornado-ravaged city slept overnight, search and rescue team kept digging, kept looking. Authorities expect the number of dead to grow, but they still hope to find survivors.
President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history.
As an affordable getaway, Travel + Leisure magazine said Kansas City is one of the “few cities where hotel prices have stayed the same or even dropped in the past year.” According to Kayak.com, the aveage summer rate here is $137 a night.
Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, and he then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.
Kansas agencies and volunteers were preparing for what they anticipate will be a request for help from Oklahoma after a tornado swept through Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon.
Sporting KC goalie Jimmy Nielsen joined The Star for a live web chat at noon.
At 2 a.m Tuesday, not a quarter mile from the obliterated Plaza Towers Elementary School, some 20 search and rescue firefighters watch as a cadaver-sniffing dog searches time and again through a mountain of debris that was once a house.
Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.
Kansas coach Bill Self grew up just north of Oklahoma City, attending high school in the suburban enclave of Edmond, Okla. So on Monday afternoon, as a mile-wide tornado ripped through the area and flattened parts of Moore, a southern suburb, Self’s mind turned toward his home state.
After less than six months on the job, the director of the Missouri Department of Social Services resigned Monday.
Monday’s depressing 6-5 loss to the Astros makes four straight one-run losses and 11 losses overall in the last 14 games. The Royals now are looking up at .500 — they are 20-21 — for the first time since the season’s first week.
Both are Topeka residents.
Bruce Cole, the former CEO of Mamtek, faces fraud and forgery charges after plans for a plant in Moberly, Mo., collapsed in 2011. The project was financed with $39 million in bonds issued by Moberly’s Industrial Development Authority.
About a dozen public safety employees from Joplin, Mo., are headed to Moore, Okla., to assist in the aftermath of the deadly tornado there. An EF5 tornado hit Joplin on May 22, 2011, killing 161 people.
A van carrying 11 men returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times Monday, killing five of them and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said.
Members of Kansas House and Senate can’t agree on proposals to keep the current sales tax rate and maintain funding for higher education. House Speaker Ray Merrick of Stilwell blamed the Senate. “It’s a disservice to the citizens of the state to operate like this,” he said.
Kansas’ basketball team has added another big body to a burgeoning roster overhaul. Former Memphis forward Tarik Black has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to play basketball at Kansas, the school announced Tuesday.
