You may not be able to pronounce several of the ingredients in your pharmaceuticals, but chances are you really won’t be able to guess what produces them: Fungi that love to help decompose plastic bottles, bags and other such waste found in the world’s oceans. No, it is not just any fungi ...
It’s been over two years since Barry Guyer came down with COVID-19. “(I) was just out in the harvest field. I just got feeling terrible,” said Guyer, who farms near Goodland in northwest Kansas. “I got home that one night (and) I said, ‘I think I’ve got this stuff.’” Guyer ...
Most University of Kansas employees are in line for a 5% wage increase — for the second year in a row — if the Legislature approves Gov. Laura Kelly’s recommended budget for the upcoming budget year. That proposed wage increase was one of several pieces of good news that university ...
Updated at 7:37 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023: TOPEKA — A federal court jury convicted a Lawrence man who insisted that a death threat he made against U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner was a message from God, amid what authorities have said is a sharp rise in threats against members of Congress and ...
St. Louis — A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Missouri’s abortion ban, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who don’t share them. The ...
The pipeline company that spilled nearly 600,000 gallons of oil onto fields and into a stream in north-central Kansas says it has cleaned up more than 85% of the crude. Meanwhile, the Washington County, Kansas, newspaper reported that the Keystone pipeline is by far the county’s biggest ...