Participants planned to watch "Smokey and the Bandit II" during the evening of June 9 at a farm in the area of Kansas City, Missouri, then stay that night in that city. This year's Bandit Run is ...

Burt Reynolds' niece, Nancy Lee Hess, visited Cora the elephant at the Topeka Zoo as part of the "Bandit Run." Cora, now 67, played "Charlotte" in "Smokey and the Bandit II" alongside Reynolds.

The distinction between kitsch and cool can be as blurred as a party clown’s twisted pink balloon poodle and a Jeff Koons ...

The “Bandit Run,” including about 100 classic Trans Ams, is coming to Topeka on Monday. The “Smokey and the Bandit” traveling fan club/car show will visit the Topeka Zoo.

It’s appropriately called, ‘The Bandit Run’ and its lunch stop today was Chicken Mary’s in Pittsburg. Drivers not only ate ...

The Trans Am, with its powerful V-8 and a giant screaming eagle plastered across the hood, became a cultural icon, immortalized as Burt Reynolds’ ride in the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies ...