Category: Kansas City Missouri

Crews will close one lane of northbound and southbound I-29 at Cookingham Drive (Exit 36) n Platte County, Mo., beginning Monday, Aug. 10, for bridge rehabilitation work, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.
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The bridge rehabilitation will be completed in two phases, a spokesman stated.

A “zipper merge” will be used in the southbound lane of the work zone. To help ease the congestion this work may cause, motorists are encouraged to take turns merging safely as they enter the work zone, according to MoDOT.

In most work zones, motorists start to merge as soon as they see warning signs and learn which lane ahead is closed. However, in the case of a zipper merge drivers will fill both lanes and take turns merging every other vehicle at the point of the lane closure, according to the spokesman.

Motorists who are going to Kansas City International Airport should make the appropriate adjustments to meet departure and arrival times, according to the spokesman. All work is weather dependent.

A Kansas City, Kan., man was ordered last week to pay restitution related to Medicaid fraud, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.

Markeith Lowe, 30, was ordered by Judge Michael A. Russell to pay $5,639.64 in restitution to the Kansas Medicaid program. Russell also sentenced Lowe to 12 months probation with an underlying sentence of seven months in prison and 12 months post-release supervision.

The charges stemmed from an investigation by the attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division which revealed that between June 2009 and October 2011 Lowe, while serving as a personal care attendant to his grandmother, charged Medicaid for services not provided. In June, Lowe pleaded guilty to one count of making a false claim to the Medicaid program.

Assistant Attorney General Alma Heckler of Schmidt’s office prosecuted the case.