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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Assn . will host a two-day celebration on Oct.

Oklahoma Joe's ribs apparently stick with you. The Daily Meal has just named the pork ribs from OK Joe's the best in the country.

The Pitch talked to Kansas City native Burt Bacharach this week, and we came away convinced that the Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer, who turned 85 recently, is as relevant as ever.

Caution: Water slides are best served hot. To enjoy the icy splash, you need the weather to sizzle at a sunny 80 degrees — at least.

It was a wild night after a liquor store robber shoved two people into a cooler, got into a shootout with police and drove the wrong way on Interstate 70 before crashing into a Fed-Ex truck.

The Kansas Historical Society is offering 12 people that chance. At 4 p.m. on June 1, Elite Paranormal of Kansas City will do an investigation at the Grinter Place State Historic Site.

Forced federal spending cuts intended to be equal and across-the-board have lately fallen harder on the nation's poor, sick and elderly.

Several major U.S. banks are beta-testing a new way to give you access to your mobile banking account, which could mark the beginning of the end for your password headaches, according to Toby Rush, CEO of EyeVerify, a Kansas City, Kan., technology firm.

A grand jury indictment issued at federal court in Kansas City details allegations of a nasty crime in Independence where a black family had its house set on fire by racist neighbors.

A Kansas City, Kan., man has been indicted on charges of threatening the city's police chief and other law enforcement officers.

The challenge when one is aspiring toward greatness is when you're recognized too early.

We missed this one in the flood of summer concert announcements, but: Rob Zombie is coming to Kansas City in a few months.

Even seasoned volunteers, with years of experience responding to the worst natural disasters of the last decade, were taken aback by the scene that greeted them in the shattered neighborhoods of Moore on Wednesday.

The National Institutes of Health awarded $475,076 to OsteoGeneX Inc., a Kansas City, Kan., private pharmaceutical company focused on developing a treatment for osteoporosis.

The Kansas City district’s safe schools task force was already planning to meet Tuesday night to review crisis-management plans for the district’s 34 schools.

Michael Newsom participated in the "Take 5 to Care: Helping Oklahoma" campaign. He rolled up in a Fairway police car with a wheelie cart of water and a stack of worn books in his arms.

Monday Night Raw may have just been in Kansas City, but the WWE's biggest weekly television show is returning to the Sprint Center on October 14 for another live go-round on the USA Network.

It's been a long time - decades, maybe - since you gathered up your favorite vinyl records and hauled them anywhere .

Centric Projects LLC is moving their offices two blocks up Main Street to accommodate rapid growth at the Kansas City commercial general contractor.

Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine appeared on KCTV, the CBS-affiliated TV station serving Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan.