In an age of instant global communications, the death of printing has been greatly exaggerated. “Shortly after we started our business 22 years ago, the Macintosh computer was invented,” said Hank Pittman, president of Pittman Printing in Liberty. “That was followed by the Internet. Many people — including printers — thought that having so much information available online would kill the ...

Concrete award The Concrete Promotional Group has awarded its 2009 Judge’s Award to Lafarge North America’s Western U.S. Ready Mix operation for work on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The promotional group, a nonprofit trade association representing the area concrete industry, singled out Lee’s Summit-based Lafarge’s work as the best of the year and also presented the company with ...

The Leawood Chamber of Commerce will hold its Annual Meeting and Hall of Fame Awards on Wednesday. See Business Calendar, C15.

Looking like paddle wheels from an old-time riverboat and sitting atop an 83-foot steel pole, the aluminum contraption hovering near Interstate 435 and Roe Avenue in Overland Park could be modern sculpture. It is a wind turbine, the first of its kind to be installed in North America.

This is a list of Johnson County Kansas Christmas light displays worth going out of your way to see. Click on the photos for larger images or links to pages devoted to the displays.

Steve Beamer couldn’t help taking a little detour while learning about the light-rail system in Portland, Ore., earlier this year. At one of the stops, there was Portland’s Saturday Market, an open-air art marketplace that attracts a large crowd and creates a lot of buzz.

TOPEKA - Whether he intended to or not, when Rep. Dennis Moore announced that he was retiring from C ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Lyle B. Anderson, M.D., of Bloomington, Ind., passed away Nov. 19 while visiting family in Kansas. He was born in Newton on Aug. 15, 1928. He was 81.

Roger Kemp knew he couldn’t always be there to protect his little girl. But it never occurred to him that one day she might not be able to protect herself.

A suburban Kansas City woman suffered serious injuries early today in one-vehicle crash north of Springfield, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.