time defending Cup champion Jimmie Johnson dominated Sunday at Kansas Speedway, going to the front early and weathering a series of late cautions to hold off Kasey Kahne and win for the first time since April.
Johnson stumbled through the first two (...)
Hallmark Cards Inc. says a greeting card using Paris Hilton's “that's hot” catch phrase and image was meant as a parody. But the celebrity socialite apparently didn't appreciate the humor.
The Kansas City-based greeting card giant and the hotel (...)
Bryan Bullington, the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2002, threw eight crisp innings for his first major league win, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 1-0 victory over the New York Yankees Sunday.
Bullington (1-2) allowed two hits, walked one and (...)
The comic strip “Cathy,” which has chronicled the life, frustrations and swimsuit season meltdowns of its namesake for more than 30 years, is coming to an end.
Cathy Guisewite, the strip's creator, said Wednesday that deciding to end the comic (...)
Scott Dixon took an early lead and never gave the other drivers much of a chance, cruising to his second straight IndyCar Series victory at Kansas Speedway Saturday. Dixon had a fast-off-the-truck car all weekend and an easy race day, making few (...)
Red Sox left fielder Jacoby Ellsbury was helped off the field after colliding with third baseman Adrian Beltre in the ninth inning of Boston's 8-6 win Sunday over the Kansas City Royals.
Ellsbury and Beltre were chasing Mitch Maier's foul fly ball (...)
A medical examiner has found that the cousin of rock veteran Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose.
Kansas City television station KCTV reports that the autopsy results released Tuesday say 36-year-old Lenny Sullivan died of acute (...)
President Barack Obama has nominated the commander of Fort Leavenworth to lead US and NATO efforts to train Afghan forces.
Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV would join the war's top US commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, if confirmed by the Senate (...)
Tony Stewart used a fast final pit stop to grab a much-needed victory in the Price Chopper 500 at Kansas Speedway Sunday.
It was the first victory in eight races for Stewart and put him back into title contention after a tough start to the Chase (...)
Alex Gordon and Alberto Callaspo homered to lead the last-place Kansas City Royals past the Detroit Tigers 7-4 for a surprising three-game sweep of the American League Central leaders Thursday.
It was the first three-game sweep of an AL team at (...)
Albert Pujols finished off a three-day romp in Kansas City with two homers and six RBIs to help the St. Louis Cardinals rout the Royals 12-5 Sunday in win No. 2,500 for manager Tony La Russa.
Pujols made a mockery of Kansas City pitching in his (...)
Zack Greinke struck out eight batters while pitching his fifth complete game as the Kansas City Royals downed the Detroit Tigers 6-1 in the American League on Tuesday.
Mitch Maier drove in three runs after coming off the bench, while Greinke (8-1), (...)
After overcoming heartbreak and tragedy just to get to the national college basketball tournament, Cal State-Northridge could not get past the greatest game of Roburt Sallie's life on Thursday.
Sallie scored 35 as second-seeded Memphis beat plucky (...)
Jason Bay had four hits and two RBIs and Josh Beckett pitched effectively into the seventh inning to help the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 8-2 on Tuesday.
Beckett, 0-3 with a 5.31 earned run average while allowing 29 hits in 20 1-3 (...)
A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.
A day later, the mother stopped caring for (...)
Armando Galarraga carried a perfect game into the seventh inning, Miguel Cabrera drove in three runs and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
Galarraga retired the first 18 batters before (...)
The Minnesota Twins won 5-1 in the American League on Thursday to inflict the punchless Kansas City Royals 11th consecutive loss.
Kevin Slowey pitched a six-hitter and Carlos Gomez had four hits and two RBIs for the Twins.
The 11-game skid is the (...)