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By the eighth inning of Sunday's game, the White Sox had left the Royals and manager Ned Yost to lament some bounces that didn't go their way.

JOHN SLEEZER | The Kansas City Star

By the eighth inning of Sunday's game, the White Sox had left the Royals and manager Ned Yost to lament some bounces that didn't go their way.

White Sox edge Royals 2-1, win series

The Royals got plenty of runners on base but struggled to drive in runs Sunday as the Chicago White Sox claimed a 2-1 win and the three-game series at Kauffman Stadium.

Electric football is still all the buzz among its devoted fans

Jul 16, 1:13 AM

Norman Sas, who in 1948 invented electric football, died June 28 at age 87, but his game lives on. Weird Wolf — aka Lynn Schmidt, one of the Kansas City Chiefs’ most crazed fans — and other members of the Miniature Football Coaches Association make sure of it.

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Money, murder and prison: The rise and fall of a JoCo drug boss

Jul 13, 8:44 AM

The boss of one of KC’s biggest drug trafficking operations, Alejandro Corredor sought refuge in his modest Fairway house and the relative security of suburbia. He took care to blend in on Fontana Street, away from a mounting federal investigation and rivals who targeted his drugs and money.

Local artist catches eye of Hollywood

Jul 12, 12:38 PM

Twelve years ago, William Rose picked up a pencil and pad that his daughter had left on the coffee table and started to draw a photograph he’d taken earlier that week — a KU softball player at bat, an intense look in her eyes. An hour later he looked at his drawing. Then back to his photo. Then back to the drawing. They looked exactly the same.

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Novelty piñatas are a hit at West Side market

Jul 16, 12:00 AM

Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Frankenstein monster, Santa Claus. Agustin Juarez can get pretty much any kind of piñata you want. For 12 years he’s been bringing them back from Mexico to sell in his combination restaurant and market in Kansas City, and he said he’s happy to hear ideas from customers.

Mary Sanchez | KC’s leaders know action on light rail is long overdue

Jul 15, 11:51 PM

“We’ll build it, and the heck with those of you who don’t want to come.” Expect a more politely verbalized version of that sentiment to continue coming from City Hall when the topic is Kansas City’s inability to get light rail up and running.

‘Up to Date’ with Steve Kraske

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Community Faces | National Ice Cream Day celebration in Merriam

Jul 15, 10:22 PM

The city of Merriam on Sunday marked National Ice Cream Day and National Parks & Recreation Month with a celebration at Vavra Park at 61st and Slater streets. Besides free ice cream, there were games, a bounce house, music and more.

Community Faces | 2012 CAF Air Expo

Jul 15, 3:08 PM

The Heart of America Wing of the Commemorative Air Force opened its annual vintage-aircraft show Saturday at the New Century AirCenter, featuring the Kansas City-built B-25 bomber “Show Me” and a performance by the Moonlight Serenade Orchestra.

Community Faces | Sunflower ArtFest

Jul 15, 2:55 PM

This third annual fine-art show continued on a hot and sunny Saturday at Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm in De Soto.

Community Faces | Vans Warped Tour

Jul 15, 9:56 PM

The 18th edition of the Vans Warped Tour stopped Monday at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Bonner Springs. The traveling music festival featured 100 acts that performed to approximately 10,000 fans.

Community Faces | Tractor Daze at Agricultural Hall of Fame

Jul 14, 6:53 PM

The Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs on Saturday hosted its annual Tractor Daze and Mud Run. The event included tractor pulls featuring antique tractors, classic tractors and lawn tractor pull, a kiddie pedal tractor pull, rides on a miniature train, milking demonstrations, stagecoach rides, a bounce house, hayrides, farming demonstrations, working antique construction equipment and the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Posse.

Crime Scene

Two bodies found in rural field in search for missing sisters

Jul 16, 1:04 AM

Authorities found the bodies of two women in a rural field late Sunday after interrogating a suspect in the disappearance of a pair of sisters, 19-year-old Britny Haarup and 22-year-old Ashley Key, from an Edgerton, Mo., home.

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Business

Stocks are less alluring for young investors

Jul 15, 1:10 AM

Many young investors — confronting lousy markets and Wall Street scandals — aren’t embracing the stock market as eagerly as their predecessors did. Others, caught in the economic malaise with low-paying jobs or no job at all, simply don’t have money to invest.

Garmin to pay $500,000 to settle patent infringement case

Jul 14, 9:37 AM

A unit of Olathe-based Garmin Ltd. has been ordered to pay $500,000 to a company to settle a patent infringement lawsuit involving personal navigation technology.

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Party Pics | Retro Party at Saints

Jul 15, 5:00 PM

Fun-seekers turned out at the Overland Park club for dancing and midnight prizes.

Gold Star wife: Abby Knapp lost her husband, an Army sergeant, in an explosion in Afghanistan

Jul 10, 2:19 PM

Abby Knapp hides her emotions. “I’m not the typical girl,” she says. “I hold ’em in.” So it was her husband, Mike, a blue-eyed soldier from Overland Park, who cried at their wedding in 2008 and at the birth of their daughter, Kinsley, last summer.

Entertainment

Blake Mills says he’s been influenced more by drummer Jim Keltner and singer Nina Simone than by other guitarists.

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Blake Mills says he’s been influenced more by drummer Jim Keltner and singer Nina Simone than by other guitarists.

Timothy Finn | Guitarist Blake Mills: A name you’ll hear more of soon

Blake Mills has an impressive resume of musicians he has performed with, including Fiona Apple, whom he will support Tuesday night at the Midland. The 24-year-old guitarist is about to add another honor: Eric Clapton has invited Mills to perform at the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival at Madison Square Garden.

‘Fringe’ cast bids tearful goodbye to Comic-Con

Jul 15, 9:46 PM

There were no doppelgangers at the final panel for "Fringe" at Comic-Con, but there were plenty of tears. "Fringe" stars Jasika Nicole, Anna Torv and Lance Reddick cried while reminiscing about their favorite scenes at the pop-culture convention Sunday.

Stargazing

Lifestyle

The big brown bat is one of two common species of pest bats in this area. They gather in caves to raise their young, but in many cases they seek out attics instead.

Associated Press file photo

The big brown bat is one of two common species of pest bats in this area. They gather in caves to raise their young, but in many cases they seek out attics instead.

The real ‘Batmen’ battle flying foes

Bat trouble has been on the rise lately … just in time for Friday’s release of Christopher Nolan’s Batman sequel, “The Dark Knight Rises.” “It’s this odd weather year that made them more noticeable,” says Tony Elliott of the Missouri Conservation Department. Triple-digit temperatures are responsible for the surge in bat calls to exterminators.

Phuzzle | Time to break the dry spell

Jul 15, 7:27 PM

“Knee high by the Fourth of July” is how farmers used to judge the progress of their corn crops. If that’s still the case, then an ongoing drought could jeopardize this year’s harvest. While you pray for rain, try to solve this new agriculturally themed photo puzzle.

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