TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas death toll from the coronavirus pandemic rose to 411 on Wednesday as public health officials reported six more deaths. The state Department of Health and Environment also reported on its website that Kansas had another 723 confirmed and probable cases since Monday, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal task force designed to help local law enforcement agencies reduce violent crime has already made more than 1,000 arrests in the cities where it has been deployed since it began in early July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said. Barr was in Kansas City ...
The University of Kansas on Wednesday signaled that it would strictly enforce mandatory policies during the fall semester regarding mask-wearing, social distancing and gatherings for all student populations — regardless of whether students live in KU housing, live off campus, commute from ...
Less than a week from the beginning of physical classes on the University of Kansas campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the university’s mandatory testing program to initially screen the KU community for the respiratory virus is ongoing. After several inquiries by the Journal-World, KU said ...
People are typically surprised to learn that women in Kansas received the right to vote in all elections — state and federal — in 1912, eight years prior to the 19th amendment, which guaranteed women nationwide the right to vote. That’s according to Diana Carlin, a former University of ...
The chairs and directors of 38 departments and academic units at the University of Kansas on Monday chided the university’s leaders for a lack of transparency in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and asked KU to commit to additional testing and protocols. The faculty leaders sent a letter on ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday announced she was reinstating a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures that are caused by tenants and owners being unable to pay their bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initial ban on pandemic-related evictions and foreclosures in Kansas expired ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas on Monday reported its biggest seven-day increase in novel coronavirus cases since the pandemic began as the total number exceeded 35,000. The state Department of Health and Environment said Kansas had another 1,282 confirmed and probable cases since Friday, an ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mayor of Missouri's largest city has been getting plenty of messages about people not following social distancing guidelines at bars, so he decided to check for himself. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas told the Kansas City Star that on Saturday night, he spent two ...
Kansas City, Kan. — President Donald Trump’s top coronavirus adviser used a visit to Kansas to urge people to wear masks regardless of where they live. “What’s really important for every Kansan to understand is that this epidemic that we have been seeing this summer is both urban and ...
In recent weeks, the University of Kansas has tentatively secured north of $20 million in allocations from the federal CARES Act to put toward the costs associated with reopening its campus through the end of 2020, according to a Journal-World analysis. That figure includes just over $19 ...
The city of Eudora was one of three cities in Kansas to receive $250,000 in federal funding geared toward helping smaller, more rural communities with economic development projects, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday. Eudora joined Clay Center and Lincoln in being selected as funding ...
A student survey at the University of Kansas that officials have touted for weeks as evidence of students' "overwhelming" desire to return to the Lawrence campus for an in-person fall semester did not actually ask students whether they wanted to come back amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight ...
WICHITA — Online schooling got off to a rocky start in Kansas, with teachers quickly piecing together virtual offerings. Parents complained about needing to be constantly involved while the work failed to engage their students. Now faced with sending their children back to a physical ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will require residents and visitors to wear masks in indoor public places until at least Jan. 16, Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday. The mayor and Rex Archer, director of the city's health department, said cases of COVID-19 continue to increase in the ...
Story updated at 4:26 p.m. Thursday As schools prepare to reopen, sports teams are offering an early glimpse into the challenges of protecting students from the coronavirus. Nine clusters have been tied to sports, with 64 cases as of last week, according to the Kansas Department of Health and ...
A Kansas prison has been locked down due to a coronavirus outbreak affecting nearly 100 inmates and staff at the facility, the government announced Wednesday. Kansas Department of Corrections Secretary Jeff Zmuda said none of the 84 inmates and 10 staff members at the Hutchinson Correctional ...
In recent weeks, officials at the University of Kansas have on several occasions touted data of a "recent" survey of KU students that they say shows an "overwhelming" desire to return to campus for the fall semester, which is scheduled to begin in less than two weeks. When the Journal-World ...
Story updated at 1:38 p.m. Wednesday KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Youth sports are on hold in some Kansas communities because of the coronavirus pandemic. Although the Kansas State High School Athletic Association has decided not to cancel fall activities, the Kansas City, Kansas, school board voted ...
TOPEKA — Republicans are likely to stress Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall's service on the House Agriculture Committee as he runs for the Senate. The two-term GOP congressman for western and central Kansas who sometimes calls himself “the only candidate who can sort heifers from steers" is ...