Will the Independence and Kansas City school districts be in court Monday?
Jimmy Bartle Taylor, the daughter and only child of former Kansas City mayor H. Roe Bartle and a friend to area Boy Scouts, died late Friday at St. Luke’s Hospital.
As a nurse, Holly O’Brien knows that fear always lurks in intensive-care units. Loved ones speak in hushed tones. High-tech machinery bleeps and whirs, counting breaths and heartbeats and oxygen rates. Steel-cold machines are tethered to human beings whose personalities often are silenced by deep sleep and the rhythm of ventilators.
I’m repeatedly dismayed by the imprecision of language commonly used in financial reporting to explain the unpredictable, outlandish and sometimes utterly capricious behavior of the stock market.
Democrats have said it for months: If this country is ever going to elect a black president, this is the year to do it.
Who: Arthur E. Robbins, of Lee’s Summit. Age: 93 When and how he died: May 9. He died in his sleep of natural causes.
Overland Park’s Bob Lager is concerned about bank erosion along Brush Creek just west of the Country Club Plaza.
Kansas City police officers persuaded a suicidal man holding a gun to his head to release a woman and then surrender Saturday night in the Northland.
Olathe celebrated Independence Day 19th-century style Saturday at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic Site.
Lisa Cole of Olathe had just handed over her money to an area grower at the City Market and received a box of tomatoes in return.
TYRA, 6, STANDLEY, 3, and SHYANTE, 2, are looking for a home that can keep them together. Tyra’s big smile goes well with her talkative and friendly nature. She loves playing with other kids, swimming and collecting Bratz dolls. Standley can be a bit shy at first, but quickly warms up to people. He loves figuring out puzzles, reading books on trucks and playing with his toy cars. Shyante likes being the center of attention and enjoys a good cuddle. She’s very smart and talkative...
KANSAS CITY | Fire officials said fireworks landing on the roof of a vacant house at 5703 Woodland Ave. caused about $25,000 in damage Friday night. No injuries were reported.
WINFIELD, Mo. | A week after the Mississippi River broke through the Pin Oak levee and began inundating this northeast Missouri town, signs that the worst is over were everywhere.
Saturday’s winning numbers: •Missouri Pick 3 Midday: 9-1-1 Evening: 0-8-2 •Missouri Pick 4
MOTHERS AND MORE: Meeting. Lee’s Summit Chapter. 7-9 p.m. July 9, Legacy Park Community Center, 901 N.E. Bluestem, Lee’s Summit. Free. www.mothersandmore.org (816-525-2357)
WORLDS OF FUN: 10 a.m.-midnight; Phil Stacey concert at 8 p.m.; fireworks at 10 p.m. 4545 Worlds of Fun Ave. $14.99-$38.99. www.worldsoffun.com (816-454-4545)
A 41-year-old man was in critical condition Friday night after a shooting near 50th Street and Glenside Drive.
For Portia Woods, the river was the place to be on Friday, but people had their choice of festivities across the metro area to celebrate the Fourth of July.
In many Hispanic households, neither parent has a college education, and the children attend schools with high minority populations that lack enough qualified guidance counselors.
In Kansas City’s southeastern reaches there’s a low-lying stretch of Raytown Road, dark and tree-shrouded, that has no streetlights.
