TOPEKA (AP) — Kansans who can certify that they are unemployed because of the coronavirus outbreak will be eligible for an additional $300 in unemployment benefits beginning Friday. Gov. Laura Kelly said the Kansas Department of Labor will begin processing applications for benefits from the ...
TOPEKA — The top public health official in Kansas said Wednesday that the state has yet to see its biggest wave of coronavirus cases, suggesting the pandemic could spawn an average of 800 or even 900 new cases a day in coming months. Dr. Lee Norman, the head of the state Department of Health ...
In its weekly update on the locations of certain outbreaks of COVID-19, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on Wednesday identified two Douglas County-area high schools that have confirmed five or more cases of the respiratory virus in the last 14 days. Five cases were confirmed ...
WICHITA — Katie Hansen’s recent trip from Columbus, Ohio, through Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Wichita felt pretty familiar. Sure, restaurants sat closed, but O’Hare looked busy and her flights were full. “If people didn’t have masks on,” she said, “there would be ...
The University of Kansas has confirmed another 21 cases of COVID-19 since it last released data on Friday, and the cumulative case total at Kansas' flagship university now sits at 971. A total of 954 tests conducted from Sept. 21 to Sept. 27 revealed 31 positive cases, though 10 of those were ...
Story updated at 3:32 p.m. Tuesday TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday she supports new federal guidelines that will allow some visitations at nursing homes that accept Medicaid and Medicare if proper coronavirus-related safety measures are followed. The Centers for Medicare ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Two white Topeka police officers who fatally shot a Black man as he fled from them after a struggle that revealed he was armed have been removed from a federal lawsuit accusing them of using excessive force. A second count in the lawsuit brought by the family of Dominique ...
Richard Schiefelbusch, one of the foremost authorities on speech language pathology and intellectual and developmental disabilities who spent over four decades as a professor and institute director at the University of Kansas, died last week at the age of 102. Schiefelbusch, a Kansas native, ...
WICHITA (AP) — Criminals have targeted Kansas' unemployment system in a multibillion dollar fraud scheme that has delayed relief payments to thousands of people around the state who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, officials say. Ryan Wright, the acting secretary of the ...
On the same day that Kansas hit a new high for new COVID-19 cases in a single data reporting period, Gov. Laura Kelly announced a strategy to rapidly increase the state's ability to test both symptomatic and asymptomatic people for the respiratory disease. The strategy, Kelly said, is an ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas on Monday reported another seven-day record for new coronavirus cases, with 16% of the tests for the virus during that period coming back positive. The continued spike in confirmed and probable cases comes as officials in some Kansas counties worry that they won’t be ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has moved a Kansas Statehouse meditation room created by Republicans as a place for prayer and reflection to a less-visible space to create more room for her staff to social distance during the coronavirus pandemic. The new meditation room is on the ...
A local effort to tag and track monarch butterflies on their migration to Mexico hasn't been able to hold its usual public events because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the insects' annual journey is continuing mostly as normal, the project's director says. Monarch Watch, a program housed on ...
The University of Kansas' cumulative COVID-19 case total has risen by 12 since the university last released data on Tuesday — by far the lowest uptick since the university began regularly sharing data. KU has now confirmed 950 cases of the respiratory virus since its mass entry testing ...
Members of Ellsworth County Fire and Rescue have credited a Lawrence woman and her friends with saving strangers’ lives from a fiery car crash. Makenzie Rodgers, 24, of Lawrence, was driving to Colorado for a vacation with her friends, Jacque Shorten, 23, and her husband Josh Shorten, 25, ...
WICHITA — Wichita State University President Jay Golden resigned Friday, less than a year after he was hired, the Kansas Board of Regents said Friday. Regents chair Bill Feuerborn issued a brief statement announcing Golden's resignation, but it offered few details of what led up to ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas reported Friday that it had more than 1,300 new coronavirus cases over two days, and most of the biggest spikes over the past two weeks occurred in rural counties in the central and western parts of the state. The state Department of Health and Environment said Kansas ...
TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed on Friday convictions for first-degree murder and battery stemming from a 2015 shooting at the Roxy bar in Overland Park. The court ruled that Dale Willis' claims of jury instruction errors were barred because he had requested and agreed to ...
BELLE PLAINE (AP) — More than 1,500 Kansans did not have their votes counted in the August primary because their mail ballots arrived too late, but many of them were uncounted because voters didn’t mail them on time, election data shows. A 2017 state law that aims to mitigate the impact of ...
Zach Zimmer’s roommates at Benedictine College had grown accustomed to seeing him stressed. But on the first Saturday in September, the college junior got them worried. He was running a temperature of 101.5. “We knew immediately at that moment,” Zimmer said, “that this could be ...