Kansas City Star

Under a sleepy gray morning, 300 bison rumbled through a gap in a dark orange fence and thundered onto the open prairie. Nothing stood before them but the horizon -...

This time of year invariably brings to mind my friend Rick, who, in the late 1960s in a city where I used to live, came to a Halloween party dressed...

Imagine a comfortable, old-fashioned living room. An elderly woman sits in a burgundy wingback chair with her favorite dog at her feet. A fire blazes in the fireplace, and the...

On a screen set before a glittering gold curtain on the huge stage of Tony Orlando's Yellow Ribbon Theatre, a projector flashed a photo of the bloodstained lobby of the...

The two women chatted like old friends who hadn't seen each other in years, while toddlers crouched nearby on the floor, crayons and coloring books sprawled around them. Two months...

With his wire-rimmed glasses and muted green suit, Randolph Croxton hardly looks like a doomsday prophet. And, although he talks about impending exhaustion of fossil fuels and overloaded electrical generators...

Luci Tapahonso ranks among the leading Native American poets, but sometimes that just doesn't cut it. She tells of an encounter she had once after a reading: "An elderly man...

Wal-Mart, which turned rural main street virtually upside down with its powerful discount stores, is back again. This time, the target is supermarkets. Already, Wal-Mart's Supercenters are rattling the competition....

Larry Sparks was petrified in 1985 when he learned that he had diabetes. The disease that sent his blood-sugar levels on a "roller-coaster ride" made him feel lousy all the...

Tamara Sergeeva is a Russian woman who wasn't rushing to get married. At least not as fast as Charles Wycoff of Kansas City intended. On March 24, the divorced 57-year-old...