Story updated at 7:27 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18: A Lawrence Police Department employee who recently attended a gathering with the interim police chief has tested positive for COVID-19, requiring the interim chief to quarantine. The Journal-World learned of the situation through an email Interim ...
Phillips County Retirement Center got a coronavirus testing machine this month from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But it will run out of the sample-collecting kits that came with the device on Monday, just one week after turning it on. Twenty miles away, the county’s ...
The health department will start conducting checks on local bars, restaurants and entertainment venues to ensure they are following public health orders, Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health announced Friday. A Sept. 4 health order requires that all establishments with a liquor license must ...
Completely by chance, local videographer Marc Havener released a short film — a celebration of Lawrence’s resilience and interconnectedness throughout the pandemic — on the city’s birthday. After the film was released Friday morning, a commenter pointed out the serendipity. “How ...
Surely this isn’t the first time that mixology has won out over macrame as a hobby. But, indeed, that type of victory has occurred as the former site of Lawrence’s Hobby Lobby store on 23rd Street has been converted into the city’s largest liquor store. We reported in November that ...
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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
About eight months after the Douglas County Commission approved a controversial expansion of its jail facility, the commissioners are now on the verge of formally abandoning the plan. The County Commission on Wednesday will consider repealing a resolution it approved in January that ...
Through a new drive-thru clinic in the parking lot of Naismith Hall, the University of Kansas now has the ability to offer an additional 50 COVID-19 tests per day specifically for those showing symptoms of the respiratory virus. Through a partnership with the KU Health System, the university ...
City leaders have voted to approve an ordinance that gives Lawrence police more power to enforce local health orders put in place to deter the spread of COVID-19. As part of a special meeting Thursday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-1, with Mayor Jennifer Ananda opposing, to approve an ...
For a fourth straight week, Lawrence Douglas-County Public Health has kept its education guidance in its yellow tier, which calls for schools to use hybrid learning options and prohibit “high risk” sports such as soccer and football. But the key indicators that guide the health ...
Douglas County has reported 1,968 cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, an increase of 16 cases since Wednesday. The county has averaged about 18 new cases per day over the last 14 days, according to a 14-day moving average graph updated weekdays by the health department. The current average of 18 ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court waded into the fray Thursday over obscure medical guidelines that will determine how much money workers injured on the job can collect. Justices heard legal arguments on Zoom over which edition of the American Medical Association guide ...
Theatre Lawrence’s upcoming performance will be an outdoor, two-man show complete with social distancing. And while the show’s director says the elements of nature will pose the greatest challenges to the performance, it will also complement the play, which takes place largely outdoors, on ...
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 up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Story updated at 4:10 p.m. Thursday We reported in June that a Canadian manufacturer was eyeing Eudora to open a new plant to serve the railroad industry and add about 40 new jobs to the eastern Douglas County community in the process. Well, that deal has now been finalized. Modern ...
Story updated at 9:34 a.m. Thursday TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum has broken again with fellow Kansas Republicans to support Democrat Barbara Bollier for the seat Kassebaum once held. Kassebaum said in a statement Thursday that Bollier shares her belief in working ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Roger Marshall is using out-of-context clips from Democrat Barbara Bollier's ads in a television spot in which his campaign argues that she's trying to hide liberal views from voters, suggesting the GOP doesn't have the race for an open U.S. Senate seat locked ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court seemed worried Wednesday about the proper roles of the Legislature and courts as it wrestled with whether a state statute that prohibits lawsuits based on “wrongful birth” claims is constitutional. Justices heard oral arguments via Zoom ...
Kansas officials are considering spending $50 million to dramatically ramp up testing of people who aren't showing obvious signs of the coronavirus. A state task force this week backed Kansas Health Secretary Lee Norman’s recommendation to use the federal stimulus money on testing at ...
LMH Health and the longtime Lawrence-based company that has run the day-to-day operations of the hospital’s emergency department are close to finalizing a contract extension. Members of the board of trustees for LMH Health were told at a Wednesday meeting that the hospital’s negotiations ...
