
Kaylie McLaughlin
Reporter, Johnson County PostKaylie McLaughlin covers Overland Park and Olathe for the Johnson County Post. Email her at kaylie@johnsoncountypost.com
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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach alleged that the Olathe, Shawnee Mission, and Kansas City, Kansas, school districts are violating federal law by not properly notifying parents of their students’ gender identity.
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A new World Cup countdown clock is up and running at the Scheels Soccer Complex in Overland Park.
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The Moody Hills neighborhood, once shaded with towering trees, is now lined with stump after stump. It’s part of a street reconstruction project that will also completely overhaul other infrastructure in the northern Overland Park neighborhood.
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The Fortune 500 company Fiserv wants to lease out two existing buildings at the former Sprint campus, with plans to employ 2,000 employees. It's requested what amounts to a roughly 40%, 10-year property tax rebate.
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While Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran spoke at a luncheon at the K-State campus in Olathe, protesters lined the street imploring him stand up to the Trump administration as it takes aggressive, and at times illegal, steps to reshape the federal government.
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The proposed project at the corner of 119th Street and Renner Boulevard centers around an 18-acre, "ultra accessible" amusement park, a 5,000-seat multi-sport complex, and a hotel.
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Overland Park City Council voted last week to amend the city's development code and set a height limit for apartments in the city’s highest-density multifamily zoning areas. It spurred a heated discussion about the philosophy of housing in the fast-growing Johnson County city.
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Tim Tinnin and three other officers were placed on paid leave in 2022 during an investigation over alleged misappropriation of funds within the Overland Park Police Officers’ Foundation they led. Now Tinnin is a deputy in the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
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On a rainy Palm Sunday in 2014, a man motivated by his hate for Jewish people killed three people at Jewish sites across Overland Park: Bill Corporon, Reat Underwood and Terri LaManno. A decade after that tragedy, the victims' families and loved ones — and the witnesses who survived — grapple with the loss and how to honor their memories.
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Despite a few headline-grabbing incidents in Overland Park, public records show that reports and arrests for shoplifting and theft remain below their pre-pandemic peaks. But police officials are raising concerns about what they call "organized retail crime."