These are challenging and scary times. It seems the landscape of our world changes faster than we have ever seen before. Sometimes within a day. Sometimes within a few hours. And yet, there are people in our community stepping up to care for and provide for the needs of those who need help. ...
As many people face economic hardship because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Eudora City Commission has agreed not to collect late fees added to delinquent city utility payments during the pandemic. The measure, which was approved on Monday, builds on a statewide order issued by Gov. Laura ...
Story updated at 5:08 p.m. Saturday: Local health officials announced Saturday that 22 Douglas County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The local cases involve one person in their late teens, eight people in their 20s, seven people in their 30s, two people ...
Story updated at 5:09 p.m. Saturday TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly issued a statewide order Saturday requiring people to stay in their homes to slow the spread of the coronavirus, waiting until nearly three-quarters of the state's residents were already facing such directives. Kansas ...
Story updated at 3:53 p.m. Friday Local health officials announced Friday that 18 Douglas County residents have now tested positive for COVID-19, including another who likely contracted the disease locally. Of the 18 cases in the county, 14 involved people who traveled out of state or country ...
Despite fears of contracting the coronavirus, a steady stream of donors flowed through an American Red Cross blood drive Thursday at Lawrence's Immanuel Lutheran Church. Social distancing guidelines are impossible to maintain while a staff member takes a donor’s blood, but those involved in ...
In Lawrence, as elsewhere across the country, residents have been stepping up in big numbers to care for animals in the community. The stay-at-home order issued by Douglas County to curb the coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented hardships, to be sure, but also has created a uniquely ...
Local storyteller Priscilla Howe has been using different puppets each day in her online story time sessions. Every weekday at 2 p.m., Howe offers a free story on Zoom geared toward children. She’s doing it for the community, she said, but also to brighten up her day. “When everybody is ...
Story updated at 3:32 p.m. Thursday Kansas health officials announced Thursday that 13 Douglas County residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. Amid nationwide concerns about limited testing, the state had recorded 168 positive cases of the disease, with three deaths, as of late ...
Story updated at 4:08 p.m. Thursday: The local homeless shelter’s closely spaced bunk beds present a vulnerable setup during an outbreak of a highly contagious virus, and shelter leaders fully recognize that. The Lawrence Community Shelter is currently housing about 75 people in two dorms, ...
One of Lawrence’s largest employers was partially shut down this week after an employee allegedly lied about having contracted the COVID-19 virus, company officials are now reporting. The call center operator Maximus announced Monday that it was temporarily closing one of its large ...
Story updated at 9:39 p.m. Wednesday Ten Douglas County residents have now tested positive for COVID-19, the local health department announced Wednesday. Previously, the number of identified cases in the county had stood at six. Nine of the current cases are travel related, while one, ...
A section of the mural on the stadium at Hobbs Park, at 11th and Delaware streets, has been vandalized again — this time to reflect a hopeful message during the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The signs in the image formerly said "We demand equal rights," "Food not bombs" and "Save the tree." ...
Local grocery stores are offering a drive-thru grocery pickup service, an action that may help reduce crowding in-store and allow for at-risk customers to maintain social-distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak. In most cases, customers can order their groceries online, drive to ...
“Safer at Home.” It's a slogan of choice for the mandatory confinement measures aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. But it's not true for everyone. As the world's families hunker down, there's another danger, less obvious but just as insidious, that worries advocates and ...
Updated at 3:40 p.m. Thursday: A man who was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for stroke symptoms suffered debilitating injuries and partial paralysis as the result of a doctor’s negligence, a lawsuit alleges. Lawrence attorney Jerry Levy wrote in court documents that his client seeks ...
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UPDATED STORY (03-25-20): East Hills Business Park call center now says employee lied about testing positive for COVID-19 • • • • • • • • • ORIGINAL STORY: A worker at one of Lawrence's largest private employers has tested positive for the new coronavirus, the company ...
Story updated at 6:07 p.m. Tuesday WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is hoping the United States will be reopened by Easter as he weighs how to relax nationwide social-distancing guidelines to put some workers back on the job during the coronavirus outbreak. Trump's ...
Local nonprofits are seeking landlords who will rent their empty units to the unsheltered homeless or populations living in tightly quartered shelters. Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center will receive $50,000 in state funds to assist with housing unsheltered individuals and families in ...