The Kansas City Star

There’s no crying in baseball, as Tom Hanks famously said, but there’s also no tackling. The latter rule was ignored during Wednesday’s game between Weatherford (Texas) College and North Central Texas College. A Weatherford pitcher attacked NCTC’s Josh…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man charged in the fatally shooting a 33-year-old outside a Kansas City gas station in broad daylight last week was seen by cameras and witnesses walking back inside to purchase gasoline before fleeing the scene, according to court…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals won their third in a row and clinched their first series victory of the season with a 2-0 victory of the Minnesota Twins in front of an announced 8,969 in the second game of a three-game set on a wet Wednesday night at Kau…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Weeks before Manuel Guzman was fatally stabbed at Northeast Middle School, he was involved in a fight with the boy charged with murdering him, friends and family told The Kansas City Star. A Northeast parent shared with The Star what…

Quarterback Patrick Mahomes helped the Kansas City Chiefs knock Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills out of the playoffs in each of the previous two NFL seasons, but soon they’ll be teammates on the golf course. On June 1, the star quarterbacks will face o…

It’s mid-April, a month after the initial wave of free agency in the NFL, and the Chiefs could still use another wide receiver. And a cornerback. And an edge rusher. Or maybe two. The roster has more needs than at any point in the Patrick Mahomes era, …

TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal Friday that would have raised work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving food assistance in Kansas. The bill would have required able-bodied adults without dependents to work 30 hours a week and…