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 ...