Here is a fact you may want to take notice of in today’s COVID-19 world: In Douglas County, there is no guarantee you will ever know when one of your co-workers tests positive for the virus. As the Journal-World did reporting this week to confirm a positive case at Lawrence manufacturer ...

A major Lawrence manufacturer has confirmed that an employee has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, but it has no plans to temporarily close the plant, which employs about 800 people. A spokesperson with Berry Global confirmed that the manufacturer of plastic cups and packages received ...

Numbers can make you dizzy if you look at them long enough. (If you watch them while standing around a roulette wheel, you can have the fun of being both dizzy and broke.) If you are feeling that way now, I probably can’t fix those conditions, but I can provide you some new ways to look at ...

Perhaps you’ve never been unemployed before. If you are now — or fear you soon will be — you’re about to enter a government world of applications, weekly paperwork and a whole lot of rules. That’s the price for getting an unemployment check from the state of Kansas. I reached out to ...

Story updated at 4:01 p.m. Tuesday: An athletic trainer at the University of Kansas was aware of “at least some reports of unwarranted and unwanted touching” by a massage therapist who worked with female student athletes, university leaders said Tuesday. Shawn P. O’Brien, who has been ...

Story updated at 8:54 p.m. Monday I have heard from several of you about questions related to the stay-at-home order issued by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health that takes effect Tuesday. I probably don’t have answers to all your questions, but here is a look at a few. ...