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Negro Leagues Museum getting All-Star game boost
Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine sat back in the visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium earlier this season, his feet propped up on the desk, and spoke ...
Rangers' Darvish, Cardinals' Freese win fan vote
Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish was hit by a line drive during one All-Star game in Japan. He's hoping to avoid that mishap on Tuesday. Darvish and ...
La Russa, Washington fidget with All-Star lineups
Ron Washington and Tony La Russa have been spending most of their spare moments the past few days fidgeting with potential lineups for next week's ...
Kauffman Stadium transforming into All-Star venue
On a piece of metal scaffolding beyond the left-field wall at Kauffman Stadium, construction workers bolted together a table under a sweltering midday ...
Mo. officer accused of trading no arrest for sex
A Kansas City police officer has been charged with corruption after prosecutors accused him of having sex with two women in exchange for not arresting ...
Weather alerts coming soon to smartphone near you
Attorney Bob Burns already gets a lot of information from his smartphone, but he welcomes the prospect of getting a little more — free warnings about ...
Get ready for Rangers to fill up All-Star roster
Two straight trips to the World Series have turned the Texas Rangers into baseball's glamour gang. Josh Hamilton is the most popular player in the ...
Experts say 32-pound Mo. girl faces long recovery
A severely malnourished 10-year-old Kansas City girl who was found locked in a closet remained hospitalized Monday and likely faces an extended ...
Neighbors: Sisters of girl in closet clean, happy
Two little girls in a Kansas City apartment complex had perfectly braided hair, neighbors said Sunday, and were clean, happy and, if anything, ...
32-pound, 10-year-old found locked in Mo. closet
A Kansas City woman was charged Saturday with abusing her 10-year-old daughter who weighed just 32 pounds when she was found locked in a closet that ...
Missouri town remembers '62 Continental jet crash
Maureen Riordan's family barely spoke about the plane crash that killed her father when she was just 11. Same for Ronnie Cook, a Missouri soybean ...
Incoming Big 12 commish against paying athletes
Bob Bowlsby will have his hands full the next couple of months. The incoming Big 12 commissioner is finishing up his tenure as athletic director at ...
Teen driver in Kansas crash has restricted license
A 17-year-old boy with a provisional driver's license was behind the wheel when a converted semitrailer crashed on a Kansas highway, killing five ...