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Today's riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Your Library: Community Connections hub expands essential support (johnsoncountypost.com) — Overland Park residents can now access job help, mobile health care, recovery resources and free community meals right inside the Central Resource Library through Johnson County Library's expanding Community Connections hub. Partner nonprofits regularly staff a dedicated space, hosting hiring and benefit-enrollment events that use the library's computers and printers to simplify applications. Organizers say the trusted library setting reduces stigma and makes support easier to find.
2. Who are the ex-high school stars from Johnson County area competing on Sunday, Aug. 30? (jocotoday.com) — Several former Overland Park high school standouts are in action today across minor league baseball, including players from Olathe West and Blue Valley West, plus other Johnson County grads. If you follow local athletes, this roundup tells you exactly who's playing, for which teams, and when their Sunday, Aug. 30 games start.
3. Overland Park chiropractor faces up to 10 years in prison for fraud (johnsoncountypost.com) — An Overland Park chiropractor has pleaded guilty in federal court to health care fraud tied to claims submitted between 2022 and 2025, and now faces a possible 10-year prison sentence. Prosecutors say the chiropractor billed Blue KC for treatments on days patients never visited the Overland Park clinic at Quivira Crossings. A judge will set sentencing after a presentence investigation.
4. Kansas City auto industry faces a new threat from Canada. Here's what is at stake (kansascity.com) — Overland Park-based Compass Minerals and Morton Salt could feel the squeeze as a new U.S.-Canada trade war threatens cross-border salt shipments, alongside Kansas City's auto exports. The article explains how new tariffs on Canadian goods may raise costs, unsettle manufacturers, and potentially impact jobs at major regional plants if the dispute drags on.
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