Kansas City Star

In his 58 years, Charles Wycoff-a grandfather and self-described Old World romantic-has been a Hollywood movie actor, a deep-sea diver, a sculptor, a poet, a paramedic and a crewman on...

American radio listeners were already well-familiar with the civilized strains of "Cocktails for Two" when Spike Jones and his City Slickers started playing the song in 1944. There it was...

Kuwait-The gold rush that fizzled. Shortly after the Persian Gulf war ended, U.S. government offices around the country were blitzed with telephone calls. Construction workers, mom-and-pop companies and go-go entrepreneurs...

Ask people around here about the floods they've seen, and they'll open a hand and tick off the years like they're counting grandchildren. It takes a lot of fingers; the...

After trying for more than a dozen years to have a child, Rosalia and Salvatore Vitali consider the baby she is carrying in her womb "a little miracle." Doctors, meanwhile,...

From the beginning, Petty Officer Theresa Walker wasn't satisfied doing "a woman's job" in the U.S. Navy. "In '87, when a female came into the Navy, it was to a...

From the beginning, Petty Officer Theresa Walker wasn't satisfied doing "a woman's job" in the U.S. Navy. "In '87, when a female came into the Navy, it was to a...

It all comes down to a smile. That's what Ethel Krupsky learned in 1957 when she made her first attempt at selling World Book Encyclopedias door-to-door. She had just been...

Tucked between dairy farms and gravel roads is a speck of a town where the most people you'll find in one place are at the graveyard. There may be more...

If 1992 was the Year of the Woman, 1994 is the Year of Treading Water, according to Harriett Woods, president of the National Women's Political Caucus. "I'd be foolish to...