Kansas City Star

Marilyn Cole, a mother of two grown children, enjoys the lack of conflict in her life, right down to setting the thermostat wherever she pleases. Four months after the breakup...

Norm Stewart wavers from wanting to pat his Missouri Tigers on the back to wanting to kick them in their stylishly baggy basketball pants. "One of the big mistakes that...

To many minds here, the second battle of Lexington is just ending. The first, a Civil War battle, left scars on this Missouri River community for years (the Lafayette County...

AMC Entertainment Inc., eager to export its concept of multiplex movie theaters worldwide, has announced plans to build a 13-screen complex in Fukuoka in southwestern Japan. When it opens in...

After a year of disappointing sales, the video game industry is taking some cheer from the increasing number of girls who are playing video games. Manufacturers are also beginning to...

The record book says senior center Greg Ostertag became the most productive shot-blocker in Kansas history with his fourth swat-career No. 201-against East Tennessee State on Tuesday, but we'll really...

Barrett Brooks sat framed by Waikiki's famed sun and surf. Behind his chair, an open door led to a hotel lanai, the preferred island term for what most Midwesterners would...

Federal officials have agreed to build a new regional headquarters for the Environmental Protection Agency in downtown Kansas City, Kan., and a new building to consolidate Federal Aviation Administration operations...

It was the last Saturday in July in the year of the great flood, when Sherry Englert prayed by candlelight in a neighbor's shed on higher ground. "We know some...

The state capital is here, but the pulse of Jefferson City beats on Stadium Boulevard. A cruise down that stretch of pavement leads to the high school football field that...