Kansas City Star

As many as a quarter-million American homes have furnaces vented by plastic pipe that can crack or separate and leak carbon monoxide, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said last week....

Millions of people pop vitamins into their mouths each morning,hoping the little pills will help keep them healthy. More and more these days, people, especially women, are also smoothing vitamins...

They are the Kansas Jayhawks, and for now that is enough. For now they are not required to carry their "A" game along with them every night. Just bringing their...

For the residents of some prison communities, the barbed-wire fortresses that sit on the edge of town are best left there. Good for employment, yes, but please, don't brag about...

Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond By Amy Blackmarr Viking, 170 pages, $22.95 In 1991, when she was 33, Amy Blackmarr sold her paralegal business in Overland...

Recently I heard of a man in Pennsylvania who finds amusement in inventing offbeat holidays. He is responsible for "Sneak A Zucchini to Your Neighbor," that rite of summer observed...

Someday, somebody will say no. That's how the madness ends. Someday, Kevin Garnett's agent will wander up to NBA owners and say, "My client averaged 17 points a game last...

I am strolling through Tower Grove Park on a gorgeous weekday afternoon in the heart of Missouri's largest city. I've forgotten my hat, and if I'm not careful, the premier...

Whistled Like a Bird: The Untold Story of Dorothy Putnam, George Putnam and Amelia Earhart By Sally Putnam Chapman, with Stephanie Mansfield Warner Books, 268 pages, $22 Dorothy Binney Putnam...

`Dad, what does happen when a penguin gets hurt?" It's 8 p.m., and you've managed not to snooze through a show on the Discovery Channel that captivated your children. Apparently,...