The Country Club Plaza’s upscale department store is scheduled to close Sunday after nearly 50 years of operations. It is consolidating with a new 60,000-square-foot Halls store in Crown Center that is scheduled to open in mid-September.

The Kansas City Chiefs signed Steve Gregory, 31-year-old veteran, to aid a secondary that has been beset by injuries early in training camp. Gregory previously played for the San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots. Sanders Commings, who was contending for a starting position next to Pro Bowler Eric Berry, broke a bone in his ankle Wednesday. And Berry left practice early on Thursday because of a sore ankle.

Marvel took a D-list team launched in a 1969 comic book — one that nobody cared about back in the day — and turned it into the slickest, funniest action blockbuster of the summer. “Guardians of the Galaxy” proves you don’t have to be an Avenger to rescue the Marvel Universe.

The cable firm says it will dramatically increase Internet speeds, without a price hike, to Kansas City customers next year. AT&T has a pending agreement with Overland Park to build a fiber optic network that will deliver Internet speeds as fast as Google Fiber’s service.

Iliad SA, a French mobile-phone carrier founded by billionaire Xavier Niel, has stepped in front of Overland Park-based Sprint Corp. and offered $15 billion in cash for a controlling stake in T-Mobile.