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Like a lot of people, Bob Litan and his wife, Margaret, have been cooped up in their Lawrence home during the pandemic. Other than the occasional walk...
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
01/21/21
Hybrid learning has become the go-to compromise for Kansas’ largest school districts to get students back in classrooms. Districts in Lawrence, Topeka,...
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Brian Grimmett
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01/21/21
WICHITA — State regulators have expanded their investigation into what’s causing a recent string of earthquakes in eastern Wichita. Regulators say the...
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Carlos Moreno
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01/19/21
Stan Herd, renowned for intricate landscape designs, will be featured in the "Parade Across America," a virtual inauguration celebration.
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Dan Margolies
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01/15/21
Mark Wisner was convicted of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated criminal assault in 2017 and sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
01/15/21
The felony charges respectively carry maximum prison sentences of 30 years and three years in prison.
One year ago this week, hundreds of people gathered on the Newman University campus for the "big reveal" of a new plan to redevelop Wichita’s downtown...
Doctors' offices and medical clinics that aren't affiliated with a hospital or other large institution may have difficulty securing COVID-19 shots for their patients.
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Aviva Okeson-Haberman
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01/13/21
The Senate is expected to finish the trial after Joe Biden is sworn in as president. Missouri and Kansas Senators don’t support impeachment.
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
01/13/21
The governor's State of the State speech called for bipartisanship, cooperation in fighting the pandemic and, less realistically, expansion of Medicaid.
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
01/12/21
Since March, K-12 students at the state’s largest districts have been sent home, brought back and then told to leave their classrooms again. Now, many...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
01/12/21
Residents of Protection, Kansas, came together in the spring of 1957 to make their town the first in the nation to be fully inoculated against polio. Today, like many rural communities, the town is divided over how to fight COVID-19.
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Sandy West
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01/11/21
Hospitals now feel widespread pressure as their intensive care units fill up with COVID-19 patients.
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Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
01/11/21
Employers could use the information to compare what they shell out for health care to what others get billed for the same services at the same hospitals.
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David Condos
Posted on
01/08/21
The art of calling and killing coyotes is competitive stuff. Sometimes people cheat — bagging kills before a contest and then trying to pass them off as...
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Brian Grimmett
Posted on
01/06/21
For starters, the COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Ness County in west-central Kansas landed somewhere else. “That was my first clue we had a problem...
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
01/04/21
College life at public universities in Kansas had one defining trait last semester: isolation.
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Steve Vockrodt
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01/03/21
Roger Golubski faces other legal challenges, including possible exposure to criminal prosecution, which lends added importance to any answers he might provide in a deposition.
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Anne Kniggendorf
Posted on
12/23/20
Pat Gray was 12 years old when she lost the use of her legs to polio. Now 80 and in an assisted living facility, she sees similarities between the two viruses and their aftermath.
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Celia Llopis-Jepsen
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12/22/20
Kansas pharmacies preparing for the massive effort to vaccinate people against COVID-19 are looking for more pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
12/22/20
State and local governments were told they had to spend the money quickly, and couldn't necessarily spend it on things they already had on their wish lists.
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Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
12/21/20
More than 5,000 inmates and 975 prison staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.