Racy ads, rumors: a Parkville B&B controversy

Janet Byers’ sincere sentiment that her Romantic Getaway Today Inn is all about “couples having good, clean fun” has hardly kept the inn from the being the talk of Parkville, with eyebrows rising and tongues wagging, ever since Byers took over the inn in January.

Queen city of the Ozarks

Springfield, only about 115 miles away, is fairly easy to visit for a day. There are enough things going on there that just spending a day can take a bit of planning. Are you going to Springfield with girlfriends? With kids? Are you looking for a romantic getaway? A chance for a cultural experience? Here are three Day Trips to Springfield: one for families, one for the culture-seeker and one for ...

Day trippin': Springfield

The main house at the Walnut Street Inn. Springfield, only about 75 miles away, is the area's Big City To The South. And while it’s fairly easy to just run to Springfield for a day, there are enough things going on there that just spending a day takes a bit of planning.

Exclusive First Read: 'Gone Girl' By Gillian Flynn

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.