Since setting up shop in Topeka in January, Planting Peace, which raises money for causes ranging from rain forest preservation to orphanages, has attempted to ruffle the feathers of its notorious neighbor. They campaign against bullying with the help of a 5-year-old girl.
Monday night at the T-Bones game
Mary J. Blige concertgoers
Parkville River Jam
Mid-Continent Regional Convention and Train Show
City Market on Saturday morning
Kenny Chesney concertgoers
Eighth annual Juneteenth celebration in Kansas City, Kan.
Run The Good Race
Fast Fridays at KC Trends Motorsports
Jazz in the Woods
National Flag Day Korean War Memorial
Urban Scouting BBQ
One of Johnson County’s stellar students, Olathe Northwest High School's Cassie Wang is now headed to Harvard, but Harvard is getting more than a scholar. It is getting a philanthropist, an athlete and a young woman who is on a mission to make the world a better place.
City council vote is a victory for neighbors who opposed expansion of Ironwoods Park Amphitheater.
Kris Kobach is a menace to the passage of reasonable and necessary changes to immigration law. But Kobach is also a father and a husband. There is no condoning the actions of the nearly 300 people who stomped onto his private property Saturday for a protest.
People are confused about what constitutes self-defense. What many people term self-defense is really just the last act in an argument gone out of control, a situation that escalates until one or both parties reach for a gun.
The two knife-wielding beasts who recently beheaded a young British soldier on a public street in London were not the face of Africa, or the face of Islam. They were the face of an ancient barbarism loose in the world — an evil that knows no nationality or creed, no race or place, but which must be defeated by whatever means of persuasion or degree of force is required if civil life is to remain a possibility anywhere on Earth.
Furred housemates may not be the stuff of prize-winning journalism, but it suits my column better than chronicling the triumphs and casual pairings of the entertainment elite, the hopeless ineptitude of Congress or the seamy offenses of two-bit hoodlums.
While every other district has gone to its voters and successfully raised its levy many multiple times, Kansas City hasn’t even tried to budge its rate since it was set nearly two decades ago.
Kansas City’s charter review committee must balance in-district needs with the city’s overall health. The answer? Take away the mayor’s city council vote.
Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss.
The owner of a Houston bus company has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the 2008 Texas crash that killed 17 people on their way to a religious conclave, authorities announced Wednesday.
President Barack Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.
The cost of going to college in Kansas went up again Wednesday when the state’s Board of Regents approved tuition increases at six public universities. Regents said the increases were necessary because of legislative cuts in higher education funding.
Lakewood, a private lake community in Lee’s Summit, will put up gates next month to control access as one measure to prevent zebra mussels from invading.
Parks officials hope to expand programming and upgrade area facilities.
Remember (in a dreamy flashback way) the days when movie viewing decisions were happily and easily made while standing at the theater? Today’s reality: arguing over a computer screen at home.
Jennifer Brown had trouble finding her niche, but once she discovered it, there has been no looking back. The Northland author recently celebrated the national release of her latest novel, “Thousand Words.”
The commission is to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday to pick a new commissioner who could swing the balance between a panel controlled by Mayor Mark Holland or one led by Ann Murguia, who lost to Holland in the April mayoral election. With finalists Don Budd and Nathan Barnes both delinquent in recent years, Holland said the commission should consider reopening the selection process.
Police are investigating whether five robberies in the northeast area of the city are related. Two or three people committed the crimes.
The university said it was making changes before a report critical of its costs for low-income students.
According to a national survey being released today by the Pew Research Center, 39 percent of Americans have provided at least some unpaid care for an adult or child with significant health issues, up from 30 percent just since 2010.
Since setting up shop in Topeka in January, Planting Peace, which raises money for causes ranging from rain forest preservation to orphanages, has attempted to ruffle the feathers of its notorious neighbor. They campaign against bullying with the help of a 5-year-old girl.
The exhibit “Real Pirates,” which opens Saturday at Union Station, is framed around four real-life people known to have been on the Whydah when it sank off Cape Cod in 1717.
While every other district has gone to its voters and successfully raised its levy many multiple times, Kansas City hasn’t even tried to budge its rate since it was set nearly two decades ago.
Kansas City police arrested a suspected burglar Wednesday morning after he broke into home while three scared teenagers hid inside. The crime occurred about 9:30 near 85th and Campbell streets.
A Kansas City couple failed to properly feed or care for their 2-year-old daughter, who was significantly underweight and had suffered multiple broken bones and head wounds, according to court records released Wednesday.
Transfers under the law involving Kansas City Public Schools remain unlikely for the coming school year, said an attorney representing several area districts.
The cost of going to college in Kansas went up again Wednesday when the state’s Board of Regents approved tuition increases at six public universities. Regents said the increases were necessary because of legislative cuts in higher education funding.
Joseph A. Camp, 29, pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to commit computer fraud, admitting that he and another man hacked terminals at the University of Central Missouri, allowing them to view and download large databases of personal information, change grades and transfer money to their student accounts.
The decision — involving a company called TWS Technical Services LLC — potentially cost “legitimate” minority businesses millions of dollars in contracts, the study says. TWS was founded by William Session, a well-known Kansas City attorney. In 2008, the firm signed contracts worth almost $11 million to perform excavation work for the CenterPoint project, a multimillion-dollar rail and trucking port on the site of the old Richards-Gebaur air base.
Members of Abundant Life Baptist Church in Lee’s Summit will face off against the Kansas City Atheist Coalition. The tournament begins at 2 p.m. Saturday at the church, 414 Persels Road in Lee’s Summit. It is open to the public and costs $5 to get in. All proceeds will go to the Drumm Farm Center for Children.
Delays in receiving test results and the need to gather more data has caused the Missouri Public Service Commission to put off for at least another month issuing its final report on the natural gas explosion and fire that leveled the Country Club Plaza-area restaurant.
The documentary is in conjunction with an ongoing exhibit at the archives. The free film, “The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound,” will be followed by a panel discussion by the film’s producers and other scholars.
One of two men accused in a southwest Missouri teenager's stabbing death will be sentenced in November after admitting his role in the case.
The victim suffered injuries that authorities believe are not life-threatening. No one was in custody.
Police said two friends were wrestling when one of them got upset and stabbed the other in the abdomen early Wednesday in Overland Park.
The Rev. William Bruning was pastor of Prince of Peace Parish in Olathe. The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas received an allegation earlier this month that he had broken his vows.
The fire, which was located in the smoke stack and attic area, caused an estimated $100,000 in damages. No one was injured.
A northwest Missouri man convicted of murdering his young son is now accused of killing a fellow jail inmate.
