TOPEKA — Emergency rooms in most parts of the United States saw more tick bite-related visits than usual in April. For every 100,000 emergency room visits in the Midwest in April, 137 were for tick bites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of May, Midwest ...
TRACY, Calif. (AP) — Officials in a Northern California city urged people sensitive to smoke to keep indoors as firefighters spent a third day Saturday battling a fire in a huge medical equipment warehouse. Air quality on the south side of Tracy, a city of 100,000 people where the Medline ...
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation's museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living." The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. ...
Reminders and symbols of Lawrence’s unique history can be seen all throughout the city, but other sites of historic significance are just average places you might walk past without batting an eye. Tim Hossler, an associate professor of design at the University of Kansas, wanted to find a way ...
A man convicted of battery against three Douglas County corrections workers died in his cell at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, the Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release Saturday morning. Joshua Matthews, 38, was found unresponsive in his cell on Friday. Staff began ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic's disruptions while older students' test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data released Wednesday by the federal government. Nine-year-olds rebounded to pre-pandemic reading ...
