Month: March 2018

New faces at Legends Outlet area

If you haven’t been to the Legends Outlets lately, you may want to visit the shopping center at I-435 and I-70 in Kansas City, Kansas to see some new stores. A new 3,500-square-foot Kate Spade outlet opened March 9 at 1847 Village West Parkway, Suite K-127. The new apparel and accessories store offers designer merchandise. The store is located to the south of the former T-Rex restaurant.
Another new face at The Legends Outlets is Sportibles. The 2,895-square-foot store features licensed professional and college sports apparel, sports memorabilia and collectibles. It is locally owned. The store is at 1803 Village West Parkway, Suite M-137, next to Five Guys restaurant.
An H&M store opened last fall at The Legends Outlets. The 25,000-square-foot store features clothing and accessories.
A new HomeGoods store is under construction currently at The Legends Outlets at 1817 Village West Parkway, Suite 102. The new 20,097-square-foot store features home furnishings and accessories, such as furniture, bedding, bath, rugs, lighting and kitchen goods. It is expected to open in 2018.
Across Parallel Parkway, in the Plaza at the Speedway shopping center, a new St. Luke’s Community Hospital has opened a micro hospital at 10544 Parallel Parkway. The 17,000-square-foot building includes emergency room service and eight beds.

Legislators pushing Kansas child welfare agency to tell more about fatal cases

by Madeline Fox, Kansas News Service

Kansas Lawmakers moved Tuesday to make a bill to release information about the deaths of children in state custody more transparent.

In response to several high-profile cases where a child had been brought to the attention of the Department for Children and Families and later died, the bill requires the agency to release information about kids who die as a result of abuse or neglect.

Under terms of the bill, an open records request would require DCF to release the child’s age, gender, when they died and a summary of any reports they’d gotten about abuse or neglect in the child’s case. It would also have to report what the department had done in response to those reports.

Lawmakers amended it to apply those same requirements to any child who dies in the state’s custody.

Another amendment says that if the secretary or anyone else asks the court to seal records, anyone requesting the records would be notified. That would allow them to make their case to a judge about why those records should be public.

Rep. John Carmichael, who proposed the amendment, related it to the recent case of Evan Brewer. Carmichael said the Wichita Eagle filed requests for information about the death of Evan, a 3-year-old from Wichita whose remains were found encased in concrete. But the newspaper didn’t get a chance to go before a judge and argue that it should get access to the records.

The House Judiciary Committee passed the bill, with its amendments. The measure must pass the full House and the Senate to get to the governor’s desk.

Madeline Fox is a reporter for the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. You can reach her on Twitter @maddycfox. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to the original post.

See more at http://kcur.org/post/legislators-pushing-kansas-child-welfare-agency-tell-more-about-fatal-cases

Legislative coffee planned March 24

Wyandotte County legislators will have the opportunity to discuss committee assignments and provide updated information about their work in Topeka during a program at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 24, at the Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave., Bonner Springs, Kansas.

A question-and-answer session will follow. It is an opportunity for residents to discuss current legislation and developments with legislators.

Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.