Kansas City News

Last month, Kush Sharma and Sophia Hoffman outlasted 66 rounds of spelling words for the still unresolved Jackson County Spelling Bee title, garnering national attention.

As Karl Bode noted last month , Google's installation of a telecom cabinet in the middle of a sidewalk caused a bit of an issue with residents of Kansas City, MO.

Members of the Kansas City Blues Rugby Team will be living on the roof of a former hospital until they can raise $25,000 to help turn the facility into apartments for low-income Kansas Citians.

Explosive allegations have been made in a lawsuit against the city's hand-picked operator of the downtown entertainment district.

Brenda Lamson placed a headstone for her daughter, Tabitha Brewer, outside what was once the 16-year-old's bedroom.

The Kansas City Council defeated a measure that it was expected to approve, one that would allow intoxicated people with conceal-carry permits to have their guns with them.

A wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the Cordish Companies and other companies alleges that downtown Kansas City's Power & Light entertainment district deliberately created disturbances to eject black patrons.

I typically visit the Greater Kansas City International Auto Show and leave with my head filled with visions of the sheer horsepower available from all the exceptionally cool muscle cars on display, but this year was different.

These people are sought by the Kansas City, Mo. Police Department and are presumed to be in our area.

TKC FACT CHECK : More than ever the old school transit legacy is dependent on Kansas City taxpayers, tax breaks and the ongoing bait and switch corporate-office-space-play which isn't really what the bi-state tax that started the redevelopment of the place promised.

THEY CAN AFFORD EXPENSIVE TEST PREP CLASSES. A RAGING FIRE DEALS A BIG BLOW TO A SMALL NORTHWEST MISSOURI TOWN.

Like it or not, the Rockfest 2014 lineup is rather unimpressive and prosaic . . . We don't blame Rockfest producers for this somewhat mediocre set of artists with the exception of old school favorites Korn.

Associate Conductor Aram Demirjian will conduct the Symphony in the following student works: Brian Lynn, "Resident 1"; Joseph Kern, "Stahldammerung"; and Phil DeWalt, "Ignatius Wishes He Could Dance".

Union Station ended a fourth year in a row with a seven-digit cash surplus in 2013.

Spring Valley Park, located between 28th Street at Woodland Avenue and 29th Street at Brooklyn Avenue, lies in a natural canyon carved out during a previous ice age that exposed the natural limestone shelf and a small cave.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, Appling will be sentenced to 40 years in federal prison without parole.

M UNTIL TWO. WE'RE LESS THAN 24 HOUR AWAY FROM THE 20-14 GREATER KANSAS CITY AUTO SHOW.

As we reported a few days ago , FC Kansas City made Australian midfielder Katrina Gorry their first international signing.

Police are looking for the driver of a maroon SUV seen leaving the area where a man was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon.

The city will initiate condemnation of the yellow brick portion of the Majestic Hotel, with Board of Directors consideration to be placed on the March 18 agenda.