Missouri Life

On this date in Missouri history, the Hyatt Regency walkway collapsed, claiming more than 100 lives in Kansas City.

Missouri History Today is a regular online feature of Missouri Life magazine to chronicle Show-Me State history.

Spending the night in a 48-million-year-old cave in the Missouri Ozarks was everything you could imagine it would be. Except for the sounds.

The disappearance of 12-year-old Heather Kullorn in 1999 remains a tragic mystery.

This was the hottest day in Missouri history. The temperature reached 118 degrees Fahrenheit  in Warsaw and Union—towns 160 miles apart.

Screenings for the 22nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase are set for July 15-17 and 22-24.

Missouri History Today is a regular, online feature from Missouri Life magazine. We look at significant dates in Show-Me State history that shaped who were are today.

The Parkway Theaters in the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City was the first known complex to have multiple theaters at one location. 

Kansas City Royals star Hal McRae was born on this date. He defined the position of designated hitter.

Missouri's official state dinosaur, Hypsibema Missouriense, was a duck-billed herbivore.