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Football at Kansas University.
   
Photo of the staircase inside the Brandmeyer Great Hall at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts.
   
Rain falls upon downtown Kansas City.
     
  
The demolition derby at the Miami County Fair is the number one draw compared to the rodeo which last two days.
  
Demolition Derby at the Missouri State Fair
   
Demolition Derby ath the Platte County Fair.
     
  
The Wyandotte County Fair hosted one night of demolition on July 29th. A driver can invest anywhere from 500 to $10,000 on a car. It's not a total loss on a junked car when if a driver can save the parts on one car and use it on another. "Anybody that thinks they're making any money is probably mistaken," according to Jack Teegarden who's been derbian for nearly 30 years and isn't sure how many derby cars he presently owns.
  
University of Kansas drum majors Matt Hedrick, Josh Maddux and Emily Glaser.
  
Fall Fashion Tab for The Kansas City Star.
     
  
Fall Fashion Tab for The Kansas City Star.
   
Joe Wackerle was a doctor who oversaw care during Hyatt collapse. He's pictured here with a stack of letters and newspaper clippings from that day 30 years ago.
   
Portrait of Shelley McQueeny who was badly hurt during the Hyatt collapse 30 years ago. Shelley had a long recovery, but never felt sorry for self.
     
  
Portrait of fashion designer, Nataliya Meyer
  
Quixotic performers rehearse inside their midtown studio.
   
Megan Stockman (top) and Devan Smith of Quixotic rehearse on a new aerial apparatus built especially for Quixotic’s aerialists.
     
  
“Bite Me” branding iron from BBQFans in Kansas City.
   
Lidia’s new pasta and sauce launched in 2010.
   
Portrait of Wendell Gaskin who still holds records at Washington High School and the state of Kansas in the 200 and 400 from 20 years ago. Gaskin is also deaf.
     
  
Spring fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
   
Spring fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
   
Spring fashion tab for The Kansas City Star.
     
  
Penny the elephant at the Kansas City Zoo was apparently one of the inspirations for the book and movie “Water for Elephants.” She’s also about to turn 50. Penny is the oldest elephant at the zoo.
  
Worlds of Fun will have a carousel that was made In 1926 by M.C. Illions. Wood carved jumping horses and chariots have been detailed to its original condition by Carousel Works, Inc, in Mansfield, Ohio. Illions built the ride in 1926 for the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration held in Philadelphia. Adam Thompson (left) and Gary Stout work on the inner surrounding during its installation.
  
Worlds of Fun will have a carousel that was made In 1926 by M.C. Illions. Wood carved jumping horses and chariots has been detailed to its original condition by Carousel Works, Inc, in Mansfield, Ohio. Illions built the ride in 1926 for the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration held in Philadelphia. Carousel Works employees, Jack Ewers (top to bottom) Eric Tomlinson and Dan Jones install the crankshaft that the animals will be put on the carousel.
     
  
Illustration for inexpensive money saving ideas for planning a wedding.
   
Enrique Javier Chi and Nicholas Kolar of Making Movies rehearse inside La Fonda El Taquito in Kansas City.
   
Portrait of storm chasers Dean Burton and his wife Leslie Laster Burton.
     
  
Blizzard at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
   
Portrait of nude art model, Kent Van Dusseldorp for The Kansas City Star.
   
Portrait of Nadia Iozzo of the Kansas City Ballet.
     
  
Penn State played against California in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in Kansas City. Penn State teammates Deja McClendon (left to right) Katie Slay and Kristen Carpenter celebrate after winning the championship.
   
Adrienne Gehan (left) of California goes up for a kill against Penn State teammates Kristen Carpenter (5) and Arielle Wilson (7) during the NCAA National Championship.
   
The Penn State played against California in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship in Kansas City. Penn State went ahead to win it's fourth championship.
     
  
Chet Surmaczewicz of Santa Marta Retirement Community in Olathe, KS., created a 6300 pound ice sculpture as a Christmas card for the residents. Surmaczewicz began carving 350-pound blocks of ice at age 16 and then went on to work under a classical Japanese Chef Gardén Manager and Ice Carver at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago.
  
Monroe City winter.
   
Steve Yates grooms his Josey after a sleigh ride.
     
  
Emmy Panzica puts on make-up during a Cats Broadway workshop.
   
Missouri fans enjoy themselves after defeating Oklahoma.
   
Will Ebner of Missouri loses his helmet tackling DeMarco Murray of Oklahoma.
     
  
DeMarco Murray of Oklahoma is stopped by the Missouri defense.
   
Game action between University of Missouri and the University of Oklahoma on Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.
   
De'Vion Moore of Missouri runs through the Oklahoma defense.
     
  
Ed Dwight was the first African American to train as an astronaut in the early 1960s under JFK. He is now known for his bronze sculptures and memorials of African American notables and events, including a large body of work depicting jazz greats.
  
Workers install the stainless steel unitized system on the North slope at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
  
The Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Diego Chargers on Monday Night Football.
     
  
Michael Aaron Walker waged a successful legal battle to change Missouri law relating to paternity determinations. Because of his case, putative fathers, who are paying child support, can now challenge their paternity and child support orders with modern DNA technology.
  
Illustration for The Kansas City Star regarding angry football coaches.
   
Portrait of miners from the Lafarge Sugar Creek Cement Plant
     
  
Nineteen-year-old Caleb Slivinski fastens a floating device at Ocean's of Fun.
   
Hiromi Baldwin (left) looks upon TBI survivor Tammie Drake as she struggles with vertigo.
   
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse inside his office.
     
  
Mason Finley, a KU freshman, is headed to NCAA track nationals as one of the best discus and shot throwers. He's 6 feet 8 and 375 pounds and could be an Olympian soon.
   
Eleven-year-old Daniel Tovar of KCK gets into gear on the first day of baseball.
   
Eleven-year-old Jaeshon Daniels and his teammates say a prayer before the first day of baseball.
     
  
Senior painting student, Christina Dostaler works inside her studio as seen from outside the Dodge Building at the Kansas City Art Institute. Dostaler described moving into this bigger studio earlier in the school year because it offered an additional window. ”It was a hard transition because the previous student had a ton of paint spilled all over the floor so I came in an scraped it all off so that there wasn’t that history from another artist. If it were my own paint that would be fine but if it someone else’s colors, then their identity embodies into that studio so its important to me to start with that clean slate."
  
Painting student Kristin Brown wakes up from a nap inside her studio space at the Dodge Painting Building at the Kansas City Art Institue.
   
Steve Robbins (right) of Willoughby Design Group works accross from "Chuck." "He just kind of materialized one day," Robbins said.
     
  
Portraits of Anthony Magliano (top to bottom) Steve Bernstein and Brent Anderson of Bernstein-Rein.
   
Art Director, Sarah Nelson of Bernstein-Rein
   
Portrait of Vernon Williams, Vice President/group account director at Bernstein-Rein
     
  
Kansas City Art Institute sculpture students Bri Chesler (left to right) and Joel Mersmann take a break from mid-term critiques in front of an untitled mechanical sculpture by fellow sculpture student Jake Wiens in October, 2009. Wiens sculpture was based on his thesis project "real but not real."
  
Jim Gubar of KCMO seized the day to create a painting he's been thinking about for a year.
  
     
  
Kansas City Art Institute sculpture student Joel Mersmann works on his final project titled, "Why Blue? Because of Orange. Why Orange? Because of Blue."
  
New chamber of commerce chair, Anne St. Peter, at her Global Prairie office.
  
Comedian Bill Maher performs at the Midland Theatre.
     
  
Peggy Kesl comforts her cocker spaniel, "Scootie" at Mission Med Vet.
   
Anita Keck comforts and tends to Lil' Bit, a Pug who receives an iv catheter before his eye surgery.
   
Dinah, a Jack Russell Terrier pup recovers after a inguinal hernia.
     
  
Beefcake an english bulldog hitched a ride on the back of a fire truck during North Kansas City's Snake Parade.
   
Yard spinners were in full motion as a display at Flowerama in Independence, MO.