Breathe easy, Kansas, with the knowledge that the state has less dust in the wind — that is, relatively low air pollution — compared to other states. Just make sure you brush and floss. The state only has 49.7 dentists per 100,000 population. These numbers are according to America’s ...
What happens when a patient must choose whether to pay for a critical antibiotic or put food on their family’s table that night? Or what happens to the patient who is discharged from a hospital stay but cannot afford the medical equipment needed to complete their recovery at home? In 2006, ...
The transitional group home and apartments to be built in 2019 as part of Lawrence's newly approved behavioral health campus can’t open too soon. “The truth is when we cut the red ribbon at the opening, we will be full,” said Mathew Faulk, housing program supervisor for Bert Nash ...
Today, Dec. 16 Don’t Miss: The Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet, 3 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Other Events: AB’s Crepes and Buffet, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., VFW Post 852, 1801 Massachusetts St. Music of the Season, 8:30 & 11 a.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton ...
The city of Lawrence has an account with more than $1 million in deposits collected from Lawrence utility customers, some of whom may not realize the city actually owes them that deposit back. The city automatically charges all renters a $40 utility deposit when service is initiated at a new ...
SEATTLE — High school students are getting more sleep in Seattle, say scientists studying later school start times. Teenagers wore activity monitors to find out whether a later start to the school day would help them get more sleep. It did, adding 34 minutes of slumber a night. They also ...
Topeka — Republicans have picked Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s top deputy to fill a vacant state Senate seat, making the chamber more conservative. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rucker will replace Insurance Commissioner-elect Vicki ...
Designers of the “Wak’ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural” located on the south side of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., held a ribbon cutting and celebration of the mural on Saturday. The mural depicts more than 20 local women and girls of color from multiple centuries and ...
Today, Dec. 15 Don’t Miss: The Nutcracker: A Kansas Ballet, 2 & 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Other Events: Red Dog Workout, 7:30 a.m., parking lot, Ninth and Vermont streets. Decorating cookies with Mrs. Claus and face painting from Fairy Fox Design, 10 ...
Washington — A conservative federal judge in Texas has ruled the Affordable Care Act “invalid” on the eve of the sign-up deadline for next year. But with appeals certain, even the Trump White House said the law will remain in place for now. In a 55-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Reed ...
As the first course was being served, Lexi Dutcher said she couldn’t wait for dessert. Not that the Lawrence High School junior had a sweet tooth; she was just excited to see how the amaretto-chocolate torte prepared by the advanced culinary class would look on the triangle-shaped plates she ...
Topeka — Kansas clinics still don’t know whether it will be legal for them to offer telemedicine abortions in January, even though a state-court judge on Friday derided an upcoming ban as an “air ball” that can’t stop doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to patients they ...
Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug retired Friday. He held the position for 26 years. “I have loved this job,” he recently told the Journal-World. “I won’t say I’ve loved every minute of it, but I have loved this job for a very long time, and I love this community and county ...
The United Way of Douglas County hopes to hire a new leader for its organization in February, said Peggy Johnson, chair of the board of directors. A committee conducting the search for a new president and chief executive officer for the nonprofit organization set a general timeline earlier ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod has said KU is officially in “stand-down mode” when it comes to figuring out whether KU basketball coaches acted improperly in the recruiting scandal that is gripping the sport. The reason, Girod told the Journal-World in November, is because ...
Consent agenda 1. Approve City Commission meeting minutes from 12/11/18. 2. Receive minutes from various boards and commissions. 3. Approve all claims. The list of claims will be posted by the Finance Department on Monday prior to the meeting. If Monday is a holiday, the claims will be ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 189 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
A prominent Jewish culture magazine recently honored a Lawrence rabbi for his work with the University of Kansas community. The Forward magazine named Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel as one of the magazine’s 50 most influential American Jews in 2018. Tiechtel and his wife, Nechama, have led Chabad of ...
A $6.9 million gift from a late geologist and his wife will help University of Kansas researchers develop a fuller understanding about early human life in the Americas. Joseph L. and Maude Ruth Cramer had established the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund at KU in 2002 with a $1 million ...
WICHITA — Election officials in Kansas counties don't believe voter fraud is a problem in the state, according to a survey of local election officials released Friday that counters Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's unsupported claims that voter fraud is widespread. The finding came in ...