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A woman pedestrian was injured at 9:17 a.m. Aug. 5 at Rainbow and Southwest boulevards in Kansas City, Kan.
According to a police spokesman, the woman, thought to be in her 40s, was walking when she was struck by a vehicle.
She was taken to the hospital in critical condition, the spokesman said.
A new restaurant in The Legends Outlets, Noodles and Company, is slated to hold its grand opening on Monday, Aug. 8.
The restaurant will open at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 8 at 1703 Village West Parkway.
“We are excited to continue to expand in the state of Kansas and bring our real food, real cooking and real flavors to another conveniently located restaurant in Kansas City. From healthy to indulgent, spicy to comforting, we have something for everyone, from kids to adults,” said Erin Murphy, director of communications at Noodles and Company. “With a broad menu of noodles, salads, soups and sandwiches, you can get a different taste every day, in lots of different ways. We offer flavors from around the world, right down the street.”
Noodles and Company has more than 500 restaurant locations across the United States and delivers its globally inspired, cooked-to-order menu in a bowl, delivered to the table. Its menu consists of more than 25 fresh, customizable dishes that are prepared quickly with quality ingredients including cage-free eggs, naturally-raised pork and organic tofu.
The new restaurant at Legends Outlets will open with the recently introduced Spicy Korean Beef Noodles, featuring naturally raised steak, never given hormones or antibiotics and fed a vegetarian diet. The Spicy Korean Beef Noodles include a bed of ramen noodles topped with a sweet and spicy Korean-style Gochujang sauce, naturally raised steak, Napa and red cabbage, Asian sprouts and spinach, finished with cucumber, green onions and cilantro.
The company will also be opening with its newest globally inspired World Tour menu featuring two new salads – the Napa Market Salad with Chicken and the Chicken Veracruz Salad, along with our fan-favorite Med Salad with Chicken.
The new Napa Market Salad with Chicken features mixed greens layered with Gala apple slices, Roma tomato, red bell pepper, pulled grilled chicken, and tossed with pomegranate vinaigrette and topped with blue cheese crumbles and naturally raised bacon. The new Chicken Veracruz Salad starts with a bed of mixed greens and is layered with Roma tomato, red onion, chili-lime chicken, crumbled, naturally raised bacon and fresh, hand-cut corn. This salad is then tossed with Jalapeno Ranch dressing and topped with crispy jalapenos, avocado and cilantro. All together, these three craveable salads highlight authentic flavors from Mexico, California and Greece so guests can embark on a World Tour of flavor without ever having to leave their neighborhood.
The 2,700 square-foot Legends Noodles and Company is the 10th location to open in the state of Kansas. Regular restaurant hours will be from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. To place a take-out order, download the Noodles and Company App or order online at noodles.com/orderonline.
Local fans are also encouraged to join the Legends Noodlegram e-club. Noodlegram members receive news, offers and exclusive information on grand openings, VIP events, seasonal specialties, giveaways and more. For more information on Noodles and Company, visit www.noodles.com or check us out on Facebook and Twitter.
The Kansas City, Kan., Police Department listed on its Facebook page that there would be a fundraiser for the Capt. Robert Melton Memorial Fund, with 100 percent of the proceeds to the fund, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, at the new Noodles and Company location. Capt. Melton was killed in the line of duty on July 19 and a fund has been established for his family.
Kansas has joined 12 other states in a lawsuit asking a federal appeals court to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule regulating emissions standards for new, reconstructed and modified oil and gas operations, Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.
In May, the EPA Administrator signed three final rules that together purport to limit emissions of methane, volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”), and certain other air pollutants from new, reconstructed, and modified oil and gas operations. The attorney general has asked for judicial review of one of the three new rules, specifically the rule that relates to regulating emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas, during oil and gas production.
“This is yet another example of the cascade of unnecessary and unauthorized regulations pouring out of federal agencies in these final months of the Obama Administration,” Schmidt said in a news release. “The EPA conveniently skipped past the endangerment finding as required by law before attempting to regulate methane from the oil and natural gas sector under the Clean Air Act. As a matter of law, it’s just not enough that somebody at EPA thinks it might be a good idea to implement a new regulation – the agency must follow the law Congress enacted, even in the final months of a presidential administration.”
Section 111 of the Clean Air Act requires EPA to list a category of stationary sources if, in EPA’s judgment, the category “causes, or contributes significantly to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.” This requires EPA to first make an “endangerment finding” that the specific air pollution it intends to regulate from that source category “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”
In the petition filed Aug. 2, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the petitioners argue this latest regulation imposes unnecessary and burdensome rules upon the oil and natural gas industry, while setting the stage for further limits on existing oil and gas operations before President Obama leaves office. The petition asks that the rule be vacated until such time as EPA can conduct the required endangerment finding process and cost analysis.
Oil and gas production are a significant component of the Kansas economy and support thousands of Kansas jobs. Many Kansas wells are low-volume and operate on low profit margins, and even nominal additional regulatory costs can make production unprofitable. Schmidt noted that oil and gas production represents only about 1 percent of the national greenhouse gas inventory and that existing industry practices already are causing methane emissions to decline.
In addition to Kansas, other petitioners in the lawsuit are attorneys general from West Virginia, Alabama, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wisconsin, along with the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
