Jonathan Shorman is The Kansas City Star’s lead political reporter, covering Kansas and Missouri politics and government. He previously covered the Kansas Statehouse for The Star and Wichita Eagle.

Getty Images/iStockphoto A Mega Millions ticket sold in Missouri just missed the $44 million jackpot but won $50,000, lottery officials said. The ticket matched four of five winning numbers ...

Legal Missouri sports betting will officially arrive in 2025. On Nov. 5, 2024, Missouri voters approved Amendment 2, allowing retail sportsbooks and up to 14 online betting sites to operate in the ...

Missouri basketball will finish the opening month of Southeastern Conference play with five wins and two losses in the league. No. 24/22 Missouri basketball beat No. 16/16 Ole Miss 83-75 on ...

A kindergarten teacher at Kalihi Uka Elementary School was honored Tuesday as Hawaii’s sole recipient of the 2025 Milken Educator Award. Read more ...

And years likely lie ahead before it’s completed. If Belle Grove Plantation wanted the project — quilts that honor those who were once enslaved at the historic property — to be done as ...

Raise shields, red alert — we’re going to try and put all the Star Trek movies in order. And we do mean try. When they were focused on the Original Series era, the Star Trek movies were so ...

Panhandle Blocks, the local chapter of the Quilts of Valor Foundation, continued its drive to honor area veterans, awarding Quilts of Valor to seven veterans at WNCC’s Harms Center on Sunday ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Brady Martin had a three-point night for the Hounds with one goal and two helpers. The second-year centre is third in team ...