Try to count all the zany knickknacks inside Northeast Pizza. An empty birdcage. Legos stuffed inside the cracks of its brick walls. A giant Gumby blow-up tangled in lights, hanging from the ceiling.

Laura Palacios and others in the Northeast Neighborhood Association have noticed the number of fires happening inside these ...

Kansas City-area schools are back in session Friday after a tumultuous week of harsh winter weather, but snow days are depleted, and for some, the last day of school is getting pushed back further.