Kansas City Star

The tight labor market and continued drive for good, experienced workers may push 1999's starting pay levels higher than the salaries offered in 1998. A sample of the outlooks: -...

Many adults are finding joy in learning skills they bypassed as children. Growing up, there weren't many "extras" for Judy Addington, who comes from a family of eight. Music lessons?...

Some adults fear that industrial hemp products send the wrong message. Nestled among the lotions, oils and soaps on a shelf at the Body Shop on the Kansas City's Country...

Let's face it. Being married is hard work. Staying married is even harder. But being married for 50 years? Yow! Now that deserves a celebration to good health and happiness....

A. Sterl Artley, 91, the last remaining author of the popular "Dick and Jane" reading primers, died Tuesday. He was 91. Mr. Artley, a professor of education at the University...

A stock market that seemingly has no top, middle-age people with money to invest and on-line brokerages offering trades for less than $10 are driving record numbers of people into...

Kansan Shirley Rose launched a foundation to aid stroke patients. Kolleen Arnold, 37, said that after her stroke six years ago, she "didn't want to leave rehab" because she didn't...

A couple of scientists in France have been doing some remarkable work with some of the world's most powerful microscopes. Just last week, in an amazing breakthrough, they discovered the...

Physical education classes are developing a new focus. Forty minutes have ticked by on the gym clock at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., and freshmen Robyn...

Congratulations of the week go to soon-to-be-reinstated Latrell Sprewell, who according to his latest series of interviews, was not even in the same building as Golden State coach P.J. Carlesimo...