Steve Kraske

There’s no shortage of entertainment talent in Kansas City, and SNL funnyman Jason Sudeikis is putting his to good use.

The four-year graduation rate for the class of freshmen that started at the University of Kansas in 2008 is 37.2 percent, and it hints that not all high school seniors are ready to go on to college.

In 1984, Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted of murder. He was released after 9 years in prison and spent years asserting his innocence until DNA evidence confirmed his story.

Does death always have to be a taboo subject?

Should a child be able to grow up unhindered by the knowledge that later in life he or she will suffer from a serious illness?

It's easy to forget that the big names of history still have living relatives today.

What does it feel like to become a grandparent? There’s the initial excitement of the moment, but it’s something that changes your whole life.

Ask a school kid, and he or she will tell you that slavery in America ended in the mid-1860s. But when did the movement against slavery start?