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Police identify woman killed in flash floods on Overland Park trail
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Overland Park rescue crews have confirmed that a woman was killed Monday morning after flash floods hit parts of the Kansas City metro. According to Overland Park police, just after 9:30 a.m., crews were dispatched to Creekside Park, near 155th Street and Nall Avenue, regarding a missing person, later identified as a woman in her mid-60s. See the latest headlines in Kansas City and across Kansas, Missouri Police have identified the woman as 62-year-old Anupama Vaidya, of Overland Park. Overland Park police said a family member told them Vaidya frequently walks along the trail, which runs alongside a creek. Police reported that she had been out walking since about 7:30 a.m. and hadn't returned by the time the heavy rain and flash floods passed over the metro. When officers arrived on the scene, they said Vaidya was found in the creek. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the heavy rain caused the creek to overflow above the banks, forcing Vaidya to lose her footing and drown in the floodwaters. Residents near Creekside Park say flash flooding can cause the large creek inside Creekside Park to spill from its banks quickly, according to local homeowners. Blake Rumsey, whose family lives nearby, said he's never known the creek to be as high as its been in recent days, since Monday morning's heavy rain is added to the 10 inches of rain delivered to Johnson County during last week's thunderstorms. 'Somehow, she got washed in,' Rumsey said, adding that he helped direct police along the concrete trails. 'My assumption is that this has never happened here. It's just awful. It's no more than 20 minutes to go out on the trail, and that's the end of it.' Rumsey said he heard first responders using saws, likely to free Vaidya's remains from a tree in the creek. Overland Park Police Ofc. John Lacy reminds the public how dangerous flash flood waters can be. 'When you see high water, you don't want to try to cross it. You never know. It might look ankle deep. There might be a pothole or mud could be really soft,' Lacy said. Hadley Neese, a college athlete who grew up in this section of Johnson County, said she grew up riding bikes along the trails, but her parents kept her away from that area, knowing heavy rain could cause flash flooding. The sidewalks along those concrete trails are often close to the water's edge, and mud sometimes makes the walking surface slippery. 'They say she walks down to this park every day, and it just so happened today was not a good day to walk,' Neese said. Kansas City crews on scene of water rescue after flash floods leave person hanging onto tree One neighbor commented that Vaidya spends half the year in the United States and half in her native India. Firefighters from Overland Park and Leawood assisted in this recovery mission. Police said the incident is still under investigation. This is a developing story. Stay tuned to FOX4 for the latest updates and information. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Ants in liquor, mold in ice machine: Kansas City area restaurant inspections
From broken utensils to 2-month-old brisket, health inspectors in Missouri and Kansas found numerous violations at Kansas City area restaurants and a grocery store last week. Dining establishments like sit-down restaurants, drive-thrus, gas stations and grocery stores are required to get food inspections, and governments have to release those inspections to the public. In Kansas City, the city's health department enforces the food code while in Kansas, the state's Department of Agriculture handles inspections. The lower the number of violations, the better. Most restaurants correct violations at the time of the original inspection or shortly thereafter. The full inspections show how each establishment has corrected or is working to correct any remaining violations. They are available for Kansas City at and Here are the restaurants in Kansas City and Johnson County received seven or more critical violations or priority/priority foundation violations from June 29 to July 5. During that time, no restaurants in Wyandotte County reached the threshold. 12611 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park 14 priority and priority foundation violations for a July 1 routine inspection At the Overland Park Korean barbecue restaurant, three of the coolers were too warm. This meant that 21 items, including raw meat and seafood, had to be thrown away. An open bottle of wound spray was stored directly above clean pans. More than 10 wooden and metal utensils were falling apart and held together 'with duct tape, wire and broken wood.' Mold grew inside the ice machine. The scheduled follow-up inspection has not yet occurred. Read the full report for Chosun Korean BBQ by searching for the restaurant on the Kansas inspection lookup. 15970 S. Mur-Len Road, Olathe 10 priority and priority foundation violations for a July 2 routine inspection The deli cooler was not cold enough, so the store had to throw away more than 30 items, including rotisserie chicken, coleslaw and burnt ends. There was brisket that was close to 2 months old kept in the establishment. Two open containers of ricotta leaked onto the store shelves at the Olathe grocery store. The scheduled follow up inspection has not yet occurred. Read the full report for Ball's Price Chopper in Olathe by searching for the store on the Kansas inspection lookup. 6601 W. 135th St., Suite A, Overland Park 8 priority and priority foundation violations for a July 1 routine inspection Ants and winged bugs floated in two bottles of liquor at the Overland Park bar and grill located near Metcalf and 135th Street. Mold grew on lemons in the cooler. A follow-up inspection has not yet occurred. Read the full report for The Brew Top by searching for the restaurant on the Kansas inspection lookup. 928 E. Old 56 Highway, Olathe 8 priority and priority foundation violations for a July 1 complaint inspection There was no handwashing sink in the kitchen prep area at this crepe and ice cream shop in Olathe. Employees said they don't use sanitizer when washing dishes. The scheduled follow-up inspection has not yet occurred. Read the full report for La Fresca by searching for the restaurant on the Kansas inspection lookup. 427 Main St. 7 critical violations for a July 1 routine inspection A cardboard box was used as a trash can at the River Market pizzeria. There was buildup in the ice machine. The restaurant corrected all the violations, according to a July 7 follow-up inspection. Read Minsky's full report. 921 McGee St. License suspended July 3 The license for the still-unopened downtown cocktail bar was suspended due to inactivity. The owner told The Star on Thursday, July 10, that the establishment was waiting on its liquor license.
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
TreviPay CEO fears fraud ‘AI arms race'
This story was originally published on Payments Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Payments Dive newsletter. Commercial digital transactions, across the globe, don't foster many in-person relationships. They can, however, spur fraud attempts as bad actors impersonate legitimate businesses and wreak havoc among global companies' invoices and receivables. TreviPay, a business-to-business payments firm based in Overland Park, Kansas, offers companies — typically those with $100 million or more in yearly sales — software solutions to onboard new customers, and prepare and submit invoices. The company also battles fraud for customers, TreviPay CEO Brandon Spear said in an interview. TreviPay focuses on extending trade credits to buyers, typically in the form of extended payment terms that TreviPay's seller customers may not wish to fund themselves. TreviPay operates in 32 countries and industries that include manufacturing, retail, lodging and transportation. Spear spoke with Payments Dive on June 16. This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity. BRANDON SPEAR: What we're all about is helping sellers offer trade credits or payment terms to their business customers. And the reason that's a complicated undertaking is that, firstly, when you offer trade credit, there's a lot of business processes that are not necessarily well-accommodated inside your ERP (enterprise resource planning) software or inside your accounting software. So a lot of this is done manually today and done outside of those types of systems. Secondly, as we've seen more of a demand for global commerce, as we've seen the rise of things like AI, there's been a significant rise in attempted fraud. As you acquire customers online and you don't necessarily know who they are, there's a lot more risk these days and trying to confirm that a business is who they say they are. Trade credit is really one of the loyalty tools that a seller has with their buyer base. You buy something from me, and I give you 30 days to pay, or 60 days to pay, or 45 days. It's essentially purchasing on credit. The reason this is interesting is that it's one of the most powerful tools that a seller has to try to get their customers to spend more money with them. Obviously, you have to have a good product and a good service, and do all those sort of foundational things. But at the end of the day, one of the ways to compete with your competition is to offer trade credit terms to your buyer base. And if you do that, then hopefully they will spend more money with you. So, it's kind of the original loyalty program, if you will, for businesses. This whole business process is called an order-to-cash business process. And if you look at where players like banks typically play today, they only play in one very narrow portion of it, which is, do you want to get paid early? They offer funding where they if you're a merchant and you want to offer 30-day terms, but you don't have the working capital, you can go to a bank and they can essentially advance you money against your invoices, but you still have to do all of the hard work that's required to onboard a new customer, construct the correct invoice, deliver it to them, deal with disputes, and then do the application of cash at the end of the business cycle. You still have to do all of that work yourself. A big part of our value proposition is simplifying their business, allowing them to focus on what they do and take costs out. Another big part of the value proposition is increasing the share of wallet with their customer. What we've found is that if you do these integrations with your buyers, if you present the invoices in a manner that they want to receive them, then those customers ultimately spend more money with you because you're easier to do business with than your competition. What probably scares us the most is … that there's quite a lot of business identity theft. Nobody really writes about it. And what has held back the bad actors for a very long time is, how do they scale that activity? And I think AI is going to be transformational for fraud. It is going to allow the number of fraud scams and the sophistication of the fraud scams to just leapfrog the capabilities that many people have. And so there is going to be an AI arms race on the fraud front. And we're watching that really carefully. And I think the dilemma here is, unless we can figure out good answers to this, it runs the risk of basically freezing new client acquisition through e-commerce channels. When you physically meet somebody and you do business with them in person, it's really hard for a fraudster to scale that. They can't do that. But you can set up bots that can pretend to be people and be answering emails and filling in forms. If we don't get this right, the e-commerce channel for new client acquisition is going to get frozen, because there's going to be so much fraud. So we're watching that really closely. It's definitely one of the things that keeps us awake at night. It hopefully will be. I'll give you an example: The fraudsters today will go and create a fake website that's one or two layers deep. And if you run a scan against it, you can see that the first layer, the first two sets of links within the website look reasonable, but then below that it's quite junk. You can imagine, with an AI bot, you can maybe make that 10 or 15 layers deep, and it looks reasonable. So, I think there's going to be an arms race. Hopefully, it will be symmetrical. But where it will be asymmetrical is for merchants. If you think about the average merchant, we deal with somebody that's, say, a $500 million a year business. How much are you thinking about this? How much are you thinking about the potential for fraud and fraud escalation from AI for business customers that you might get down the road through an e-commerce channel? There's not a lot of mind share that's going into that yet, and so I think that's where the asymmetry is likely to come from. We have seen a lot of unusual behavior is probably the best way to say it, where people have been stocking up on some of the parts before the price increases occur. And so we've seen some seasonality that I would describe as atypical. For us, big seasonal months actually happen towards the end of the summer. In the (trucking) space, people take a lot of their fleets and maintain them in the summer in anticipation of the run-up to Thanksgiving and to Christmas. They don't want the trucks being serviced during those months because they're super busy. We've seen some weird seasonality with some of what would probably happen in August, we think has actually happened in May because they brought these things forward. Recommended Reading AI increases fraud risk, fintechs say Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
National Post
23-06-2025
- Business
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Compass Minerals Appoints Chief Accounting Officer
Article content OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP), a leading global provider of essential minerals, today announced the appointment of Ashley Ward to chief accounting officer. She most recently served as vice president, corporate controller since July 2024. Article content In this role, Ward will have primary responsibility for leading the company's accounting functions, including responsibility for all technical accounting issues of the company, ensuring compliance with all accounting policies and principles, and the management of external reporting. She will work closely with executive leadership to further implement and improve accounting systems and processes that support the company's long-term strategic goals. Article content Article content 'Ashley has demonstrated consistent leadership, deep technical expertise, and a commitment to operational excellence during her time at Compass Minerals,' said Peter Fjellman, chief financial officer. 'This promotion is a reflection of the value she brings to the organization and our confidence in her ability to guide our accounting function.' Article content Ward brings nearly 20 years of accounting experience to this role. Prior to joining the company, she spent 10 years with Crestwood Equity Partners and held positions of increasing responsibility, including assistant controller and director, operational accounting and fixed assets. After receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Wichita State University, she began her career in accounting at Flint Hills Resources, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries. Article content About Compass Minerals Article content Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) is a leading global provider of essential minerals focused on safely delivering where and when it matters to help solve nature's challenges for customers and communities. The company's salt products help keep roadways safe during winter weather and are used in numerous other consumer, industrial, chemical and agricultural applications. Its plant nutrition products help improve the quality and yield of crops while supporting sustainable agriculture. Compass Minerals operates 12 production and packaging facilities with more than 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Visit for more information about the company and its products. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Investor Contact Article content Article content Brent Collins Article content Article content +1.913.344.9111 Article content Article content Media Contact Article content Article content Kevin Gabriel Article content Article content Article content Article content
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Sport
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OU football lands Trace Rudd, 5-star kicker, in 2026 recruiting class
NORMAN — Oklahoma special teams coordinator Doug Deakin gained a big-time commitment on Saturday. The Sooners notched a pledge from 2026 five-star specialist Trace Rudd on Saturday evening, he announced on social media. Rudd is ranked as the No. 27 kicker and No. 73 punter nationally by Kohl's Professional Camps. Advertisement Rudd committed while on a visit during OU's massive recruiting event this weekend. Rudd competed at the 2025 Kohl's Underclassman Challenge and scored 114.90 points on kickoffs, 14 points on field goals, and 99.45 points in punting. Rudd attends Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. Rudd's commitment comes a day after 2026 four-star quarterback Bowe Bentley pledged to the Sooners. OU now has 11 players committed to its 2026 class. Zach Schmit replaced Tyler Keltner, who started atop the depth chart, as the Sooners' No. 1 kicker last season. After struggling in 2023, Schmit drilled nine of his 11 field-goal attempts this season and was a perfect 19 of 19 on extra points. Advertisement OU found its 2025 kicker following spring camp after landing UTSA transfer Tate Sandell in the transfer portal. More: OU football lands Bowe Bentley, beats LSU for 4-star QB in Sooners' 2026 recruiting class Colton Sulley covers the Oklahoma Sooners for The Oklahoman. Have a story idea for Colton? He can be reached at csulley@ or on X/Twitter at @colton_sulley. Support Colton's work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing adigital subscription today at This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: OU football lands Trace Rudd, 5-star kicker, in 2026 recruiting class
