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Bridge project on 134th rescheduled for April 7

A bridge project on 134th Street over I-70 in Wyandotte County has been pushed back to Monday, April 7.

Rescheduled for the second time, the bridge project was supposed to start March 31, and then April 2. But rainy weather has caused it to be canceled again, according to the Kansas Department of Transportation.

The project will require the road to be closed from Kansas Avenue to Riverview Avenue from 8 a.m. Monday, April 7, through Friday, April 11.

There is no marked detour. Drivers are asked to find another route.

Kansas joins suit over lesser prairie chicken

Kansas has joined with Oklahoma to challenge a federal endangered species listing.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced that Kansas joined an Oklahoma lawsuit that challenges a process resulting in the lesser prairie chicken being named as a threatened species.
North Dakota also joined in the lawsuit.
A “citizen suit” led to a federal court order that ultimately led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the endangered species act, according to the attorney general’s office.
Private interest groups may sue federal agencies and then enter into consent decrees that compel the agencies to take certain actions.
Oklahoma, Kansas and North Dakota are arguing that consent decrees cannot be used to circumvent provisions of federal statutory law. The states alleges that the Fish and Wildlife Service violated its statutory obligation to make endangered species listing decisions “solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available” and it alleges the agency failed to adhere to its own regulations and guidelines in the rulemaking process.

Semi driver injured in I-70 crash this morning

(KC Scout photo)

A semi truck driver was injured after an accident at 6:35 a.m. April 2 on I-70 westbound, just west of the I-670 split in Kansas City, Kan.
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s crash log stated that the driver was going too fast for the conditions, lost control and struck the barrier wall. A thunderstorm with rain and lightning occurred this morning and some areas reported hail.
The driver, a 42-year-old man from Lansing, Kan., was taken to a hospital in Kansas City, Kan.

The interstate has reopened to traffic.