Copies of the Green Book, a real guidebook that helped black travelers navigate segregated America, are kept at KU’s Spencer library. Several former Kansas City sites featured in the book still remain.
Guy Fieri, host of “Diners, Dives and Drive-ins,” has opened his Dive & Taco Joint in Kansas City’s Power & Light District’s Live Block. Menu items include cheeseburger tacos and roasted pineapple margaritas.
TrueAccord, a California-based company, will open a new office in Lenexa and plans to add more than 150 jobs over the next three years. The office will open in April on College Boulevard.
These Kansas City-area restaurants have seven or more priority or critical health code violations. They include places in Leawood, Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee, Waldo and KCK.
Virginia lawmakers are unveiling a budget plan that gives increased raises to state workers and public school teachers, freezes tuition increases at state universities and pads the state's rainy day accounts.
Warren Buffett's company recorded a $25 billion loss in the fourth quarter because of a big drop in the paper value of several of its stock investments.
Billionaire Warren Buffett says the company he built through decades of acquisitions continues to perform well even though he hasn't found any major deals at attractive prices recently.
