Kansas City News

On Tuesday, the Kansas State Department of Education announced this year's finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching at a ceremony at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson.

Sgt. Emmett Lockridge said the man in his 30s was traveling southbound on I-635 when a black pickup truck that had two men inside pulled up alongside him and began shooting.

Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys.

Ben Barreth liquidated his retirement account to buy the Homes for Hackers house to encourage startups to move to Kansas City for Google Fiber.

It's out with the old, in with the new on the side of 1712 Main, the building that long featured a painted advertisement for Boulevard and the Roasterie.

Where do you drink? I'm an aspiring teetotaler, but when I do, it's typically the Jacobson, Retro, Green Room Burgers, Nara, Anton's Taproom, Nica's 320, RecordBar, the Farmhouse, Brick or Green Lady Lounge.

The Rev. Bill Bruning, left, when he was pastor of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Catholic Church, shown here presenting a check to Barry Feaker for the Topeka Rescue Mission.

The Capitol Police are investigating threats against two legislators, and the House majority leader has reminded lawmakers they should report such intimidation.

Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, is the flood of 1951, which was dubbed "The Great Flood" with the local mantra "May there be no next time."

The $66 million in state budget cuts to higher education over the next two fiscal years makes the Legislature's approval of $2 million to help start the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City seem even more ridiculous.

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the operators of a party bus from which a young mother fell to her death in May. Kansas Highway Patrol officers investigate an accident that claimed the life of 26-year-old Jamie Frecks of Kansas City, Kan.

The 1981 Mel Brooks film The History of the World, Part 1 includes a famous line from King Louis XVI who exclaims, "It's good to be the king," as his character takes advantage of one of the perks of his lofty title.

A Kansas City, Kan., utility company is investigating reports that a downed power line at a public park was left unattended for more than 11 hours before a man was electrocuted.

A Kansas City man supported a "nascent" plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, an FBI official said Tuesday at a Washington D.C. hearing.

A Kansas City man supported a "nascent" plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, an FBI official said Tuesday at a Washington D.C. hearing.

The food pantries in the Kansas City metro have been doing record business since the economic downturn of 2008.

It is an old city, especially compared to others west of the Mississippi, fueled in its early years by farming money and trade from settlers heading west.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona cannot require voters to show proof of citizenship.

A Wyandotte County judge dealt a serious blow Monday to price-fixing claims that Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc. brought against the egg industry.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Monday he has asked state officials to investigate an immigration reform rally that was held outside his Wyandotte County home.