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  • Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, in an Auckland, New Zealand, court today.
    Megaupload Is Trying To Go Back Online Even As Execs Sit In Jail
    Accused of copyright infringement and conspiracy, the file-sharing site's founder and three others are being held in a New Zealand jail. Meanwhile, the site has one webpage up and running.
  • Near Laporte, Colo., earlier this week, smoke billowed from the mountains. In the foreground: A helicopter was dumping water on a hotspot.
    As Wildfires Rage, 'A Helpless Feeling'
    There are now at least 19 large wildfires burning in nine Western states. As the blazes rage in Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere, firefighters are battling against dry weather and gusty winds.
  • Good People
    Economic struggles, loyalty to friends and endless hopes of coming out on top in America. Those are the central themes of the play Good People, a 2011…
  • Real To Reel
    What really happens on the set of a reality TV show? Two contestants from Kansas City and a former production assistant spill the details — and discuss…
  • Frank Smith Jr III, a Marine veteran, connected with Veterans Community Project
    Military members and families rely on Kansas City nonprofits for food: ‘Budgets only go so far'
    According to a recent report, 19% of responding Missouri military-connected families said they were facing low or very low food security. Some Kansas City organizations are working so members of the military community don’t have to choose between the expenses of day-to-day life and going hungry.
  • Can Employers Dump Workers On Health Exchanges? Yes, For A Price
    A recent IRS rule bars employers from offering workers tax-free subsidies to buy policies. But a company could still cancel its plan and leave workers to buy individual policies on the marketplaces.
  • Democrats say they're focused on the Koch brothers because, they allege, Republican candidates are doing the billionaires' bidding. Republicans say Democrats are desperate. David Koch (above) is chairman of Americans for Prosperity.
    Why The Democrats' Koch Brothers Fixation?
    Democrats are painting Republican senatorial candidates as stalking horses for the billionaire Koch brothers. Republicans say Democrats are desperate.
  • Congressman Sam Graves is sponsoring a wholesale overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    Missouri Rep. Graves welcomes government reopening: 'There are no winners in a shutdown'
    During the record-setting 43-day government shutdown, Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves said he got a lot of calls from air traffic controllers — who had to work without pay, despite already being overworked and understaffed. But another shutdown could just be a few months away.
  • How The 'Village Movement' Is Being Adapted In Rural Areas
    Americans are maintaining independence thanks to something called Villages — local membership organizations that provide access to services that help older adults stay in their homes as they age. But how is that model being adapted when it comes to mountain communities, like those of rural Plumas County in northern California?
  • Two young boys stand next to each other on a river rock garden path. The boy on the left is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, black jeans and white sneakers, while Sir Antonio Brown, the boy on the right, wears a T-shirt with a shark on it, jeans and coral-colored sneakers.
    Family says 6-year-old boy fatally shot in Kansas City, Kansas, was a ‘protector’
    Sir'Antonio Brown, just six years old, was shot and killed Wednesday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Gun violence has surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children, according to a December report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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