Do Good Co. Opens Luxury Consignment, Royals Lose Legend

0:00Country Club Plaza is getting a fresh spot for luxury consignment with Duke Goodco, opening up at 608A West 48th Street this summer. It's the second hand shop from the Crossroads, run by philanthropist Janet Kern since 2017, and every dime from sales goes straight to Wayside Wafes and Kids TLC. Earlier this week, the world's lost a piece of history as Ellie Rodriguez passed away at 79. He was the team's first all-star back in 1969, a catcher who also played for the Yankees, Brewers, Angels and Dodgers, born in Puerto Rico, he moved to New York Young and even boxed in the Golden Gloves. Storms hit the Metro Hearts Sunday night, dumping two to five inches of rain and triggering flood warnings across Johnson, Wyandotte, Clay, Jackson, and Platt Counties. Kansas City International Airport clocked 3.56 inches in 24 hours, almost the full April normal, while spots like Lawrence, and DeSoto saw 3.54 in 2.83 inches.

1:03Meanwhile, new renderings dropped for transforming US 71 between 85th Street and Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The parkway alternative turns it into a freeway with bridges over it, over passes at Gregory in 55th and 59th, dipping under. Reconnect Eastside neighborhoods, public comments are open till May 8th, under a federal civil rights consent decree. Rapping up with good news from Johnson County, the Sunflower Army ammunition plant cleanup, is almost done after tackling 7,700, 80 of its nearly 9,000 acres. That World War II and Vietnam site near DeSoto will hand nearly 400 acres to the county's biggest park soon. That's the story for today, Kansas News Today, driven by AI.