The Kansas City Star

Eight-year-old Larry Bass, who was a triplet, weighed less than 30 pounds when he died Wednesday. His ribs poked through his sagging skin. His feet, which allegedly had been dunked...

It sounds so slick. So sexy. So 21st Century. The Skycar! Going to St. Louis in the new millennium? No problem. You've got a ruby red aero racer that will...

Beckie Allwood was happy to be up and walking a few days after her quintuple-bypass heart surgery. Down the hallway she went with help from her 24-year-old son, Bret. Bret's...

Beckie Allwood was happy to be up and walking a few days after her quintuple-bypass heart surgery. Down the hallway she went with help from her 24-year-old son, Bret. Bret's...

Anderson, of Olathe, Kan., a Kansas City suburb, is struggling to say his name. That's all. Answer his office telephone and say, "Hi, this is Jeff Anderson." But the words,...

`Dilbert" creator Scott Adams started putting his e-mail address on his daily comic strip in 1993. Since then, he's received hundreds of messages a day from workers who share the...

Air conditioners already are humming at full force. The humidity is making arugula bolt. And the cicadas are coming out of the ground to start their drone. If you're looking...

A woman who lost a leg to cancer 32 years ago now plans a Mt. Everest trek. Early in May, if all goes well, 52-year-old Sheila Brashear of North Kansas...

A widow at 41 is the sad reality for TV newswoman Katie Couric. Her husband, high-profile lawyer Jay Monahan, died of cancer Jan. 24 at age 42. When Janis Boeger...

Amid the audible breathing and the quiet whoosh of bodies slamming into air molecules, there was a sound out of place: thump, thump, thump. It was early morning at the...