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  • Bats leave Shields hanging in all his defeats

    Email OAKLAND -- When it comes to getting support from his Royals family, James Shields is stuck in the Great Depression. It's, "Brother, can you spare a run?" All four of Shields' losses this season have come by one run: 1-0, against the White Sox in Chicago on Opening Day; 3-2, to the Blue Jays and Yankees at home; and 2-1, in Oakland just Friday night. Oh, and he also had ...

  • Moustakas numbers down but Yost not counting him out

    Email OAKLAND -- Mike Moustakas' average was down to .189 entering Saturday's game, and he was in a 1-for-26 swoon with no RBIs and one run. But Royals manager Ned Yost was adamant that he was not giving up on his third baseman. "The kid's going to be fine," Yost said. "He's fighting; they're all fighting -- they all want success, they want to bring a ...

  • Missouri softball beats Hofstra and reaches final of NCAA regional

    Hearts broken over girl killed in Cass County wreck One day after Savannah Nash celebrated her 16th birthday on May 8, she picked up her Missouri driver’s license. One week later, she died in a traffic accident. The Harrisonville High School freshman, an honor roll student and Future Farmers of America competitor, was driving alone on Thursday afternoon, only 100 yards from her ...

  • Kansas City is set to launch a new tax system

    A 1918 work by Edwin Blashfield, “The Call of Missouri,” was displayed for years at the Kansas City Public Library. It disappeared in 1983. A six-year search found it online — on sale for ...

  • Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

    That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...


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Movie Review

The Rage: Carrie 2

The Rage: Carrie 2

"The Rage: Carrie 2" is a sequel-cum-updated remake of "Carrie," Brian De Palma's 1976 high school horror revenge fantasy. There's not much connection between the two films, and one gets the feeling that the producers weren't sure whether "The Rage" should be considered a sequel to "Carrie" or its own beast. After all, it could certainly work on its own, although anyone with any film knowledge wou ... ...

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  • Man dies in crash south of Lawrence

    LAWRENCE, Kan. - A 21-year-old Leawood man died Friday night when he ran a stop sign and collided with another SUV at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and County Road 458, just south of ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 18

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

  • Kansas City museum plans to fly ‘Connie’

    KANSAS CITY -- The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and re-create multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the airplane that transformed commercial air ...

  • John Force tops NHRA Kansas Nationals qualifying

    The 64-year-old Force earned the 141st No. 1 qualifying position of his career and his 11th at Heartland Park Topeka with a pass of 4.043 seconds at 313.22 mph in a Ford Mustang. The 15-time NHRA season champion will meet former teammate Tony Pedregon on Sunday in the first round of ...

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