Search results for

After moving from Lawrence, Kansas, to New York City, Freedy Johnston hit it big with his major-label debut album, and charted on the Billboard Top 100. The 'songwriters' songwriter' is now attempting a shift away from his rock roots.

Kansas City officials want to reconstitute the jail on the top floor of KCPD headquarters. The city closed the jail in 2015, and — after an agreement with Jackson County fell through — now sends detainees to mid-Missouri.

Taussig's memoir delivers poignant and entertaining personal stories that examine "life in this body of mine."

A three-day ice storm in northern Michigan early this spring left 145,000 people without power, some for weeks. Three months later, clean-up efforts are focused on millions of acres of the state's forests, where broken and fallen trees could affect the forest's long-term health.

Lee's Summit is on its third superintendent in four years, and teachers are worried that turnover at the top will keep their concerns about re-entry from being heard.

The summer program is just the latest in a string of nighttime activities meant to keep kids busy in the summer and steer them away from guns and violence. But homicides — many of them involving kids and young adults — have topped 100 since 2015, and are on pace to set a record this year.

The plaintiffs alleged in court documents that Dr. James Stannard did not advise plaintiffs that “the surgery he was proposing has a failure rate as high as 86%.”

Vaccination isn't a perfect defense against flu. But vaccines remain the most reliable way to reduce the risk from an illness that causes thousands of deaths in the U.S. during a typical flu season.

This month may signal the end of summer, but Kansas City's selection of musical offerings will stay hot. To make sense of all the options, we pared the list down to simply the best.

There were 175,000 jobs added to payrolls last month. That's about 25,000 more than economists forecast. The unemployment rate, though, edged up to 6.7 percent from 6.6 percent in January.