Story updated at 6:18 p.m. Monday Bianca Labrador, an online student at the University of Kansas who until recently was studying abroad in London, has faced many confusing and frustrating moments in the time since the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping the globe. It was bad enough, she said, ...
Updated at 11:01 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Kansas banned public gatherings of 50 or more people for the next two months and blocked utilities from cutting off services until mid-April, as Gov. Laura Kelly warned Monday that the coronavirus pandemic may force additional restrictions to contain its ...
Updated story - March 17 — KU moves classes online for entire spring semester Story updated at 6:12 p.m. Monday The immediate future of the University of Kansas’ campus operations remained in limbo on Monday as Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly ordered gatherings be limited to less than 50 ...
Story updated at 6:01 p.m. Monday. Offices of local governments are encouraging residents to avoid conducting business in person. Some offices of the Douglas County government are remaining open as many other organizations are closing as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. But the ...
Story updated at 3:05 p.m. Monday All nonessential dockets in Lawrence Municipal Court have been canceled for the next two weeks, beginning immediately, the city announced Monday afternoon. Judge Scott Miller of the court, which handles city ordinance violations including traffic and parking ...
TOPEKA — Staff and other residents at a Kansas City, Kansas, nursing home tested negative for coronavirus after a resident became Kansas' first COVID-19 related death, the local government health officer said Monday. Eighty-five patients and staff from the Life Care Center were tested, said ...
Story updated at 6:31 p.m. Monday WASHINGTON — Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House on Monday released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of American society. President Donald Trump, employing a ...
This story was updated at 9:54 CHICAGO — Officials across the country curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, with health officials recommending that groups of 50 or more don’t get together and a government expert saying a 14-day national ...
Story updated at 10:19 p.m. Sunday TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas’ top education official on Sunday urged public schools to remain closed this week, and the state health department called for people who are traveling outside the U.S. or to several other states to quarantine ...
As the University of Kansas prepares for a shift to teach all courses remotely until at least the end of March, the change will be a balancing act for all involved. While the university for years has had a multitude of online classes, never before have professors been forced by extenuating ...
Story updated at 2:56 p.m. Sunday BARCELONA, Spain — New travel restrictions and border closures reverberated Sunday across Europe and beyond as daily life increasingly ground to a halt to try to keep people apart and slow the spread of the coronavirus. Americans returning home faced chaos ...
A week ago, bartender Joey Pauda was expecting mid-March to be one of the busiest times of the year for The Burger Stand at The Casbah, with University of Kansas basketball fans flocking to watch their team play in the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments. But all that changed in an instant on ...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, individuals may have found it difficult to understand what they are supposed to do if they fear they have contracted the COVID-19 virus. Some have also wondered why they have not been able to get tested for the virus, fearing the disease may be ...
Local health departments are helping lead efforts within communities to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which as of Saturday had infected at least eight people in Kansas. Health departments in Kansas have the authority to cancel public events and isolate individuals, per the advice of ...
LMH Health is working with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to closely monitor the outbreak caused by COVID-19. As the number of reported cases around the nation continues to ...
Story updated at 3:49 p.m. Saturday: Kansas health officials on Saturday confirmed the state's eighth novel coronavirus case in a person from Franklin County in eastern Kansas. No details about the person were released, but the news follows on the heels of the Johnson County Department of ...
Inmates serving sentences in the Douglas County Jail could be released on 14-day furloughs without court hearings if they are at risk for, or actively suffering from, the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, according to a court order. The Douglas County District Court administrative order, issued ...
Story updated at 4:38 p.m. Friday WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency in order to free up more money and resources as he denied any responsibility for delays in making testing available for the new virus, whose spread has ...
Story updated at 7:04 p.m. Friday Douglas County's health department said Friday afternoon that it will be closing local public and private schools, indoor parks and recreation facilities and public libraries for two weeks in response to the spread of the new coronavirus. Douglas County's ...
UPDATED STORY: Douglas County health department prohibits large gatherings, orders 2-week closure of schools, rec centers, libraries A pair of area school districts are contemplating how to hold classes as coronavirus fears mount, and one of them is telling parents to begin thinking now ...