By MARCIA DUNN (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., AP) — Astronauts ventured out Saturday on the first of a series of urgent repair spacewalks to revive a crippled cooling line at the… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A festive holiday train that has chugged through Kansas and other states has ended its journey at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas… Read more »

(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – Kansas City Public Television officially took over the radio station 90.9 FM The Bridge on Tuesday. The University of Central Missouri transferred ownership of the 100,000-watt station… Read more »

By ANDRA BRYAN STEFANONI The Joplin Globe (JOPLIN, Mo., AP) — A once-popular Christmas tradition of killing birds for sport has evolved into a Christmas tradition in which tens of… Read more »

Editor’s Note: In a story Dec. 14 about a growing interest in the use of drones for agriculture, The Associated Press reported erroneously which school’s researchers flew drones this summer… Read more »

By JEFF KAROUB (DETROIT, AP) — On Detroit’s Heidelberg Street, where a local artist turned the shell of a crime-ridden neighborhood into an interactive public art project, visitors coming to… Read more »

By LOUISE WATT (BEIJING, AP) — China on Saturday successfully carried out the world’s first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media… Read more »

By BRENT FRAZEE The Kansas City Star (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Garrett Westfall has some impressive bucks living just out his backdoor in rural Liberty. But when Missouri’s firearms… Read more »

By THOMAS ADAMSON (PARIS, AP) — A U.S. charitable foundation said Wednesday that it was the anonymous bidder that paid $530,000 for 24 Native American masks in a contested Paris… Read more »