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Here's The Latest On Where And How To Get A COVID Vaccine In Kansas

Author Celia Llopis-Jepsen Posted on 01/22/21

Kansas Officials Start With Talk Of Unity, But Fights Over Taxes And Abortion Loom

Author Stephen Koranda Posted on 01/21/21

Kansas Pharmacies Hire And Train More Workers To Help Roll Out COVID-19 Vaccines Faster

Author Celia Llopis-Jepsen Posted on 01/20/21
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Get Paid To Get Vaccinated? How One Economist Proposes We Reach Herd Immunity

Author Tom Shine Posted on 01/22/21
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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Kansas Teachers Say Hybrid Learning Is No Better Than All-Virtual Classes

Author 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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State Regulators Expand Investigation Into What's Causing Wichita Earthquakes

Author Brian Grimmett Posted on 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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Lawrence Artist Burns Message Of Unity Into Kansas Field For Biden-Harris Inauguration

Author Carlos Moreno Posted on 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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Government Ordered To Pay More Than $1 Million To Yet Another Veteran Abused At Leavenworth VA

Author Dan Margolies Posted on 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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Former KU Med Center Administrator Charged With Embezzlement

Author Dan Margolies Posted on 01/15/21
The felony charges respectively carry maximum prison sentences of 30 years and three years in prison.
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Sidelined By The Pandemic, Work On A Plan For Wichita's Riverfront Could Resume This Year

Author Tom Shine Posted on 01/15/21
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...
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Private Practice Doctors, Patients Wonder When It’s Their Turn for The COVID-19 Vaccine

Author Tom Shine Posted on 01/14/21
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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In Missouri And Kansas, Party Predicted Whether Lawmakers Backed Trump’s Second Impeachment

Author Aviva Okeson-Haberman Posted on 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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Gov. Kelly Mourns Kansas COVID-19 Losses And Uses State Of The State Address To Ask For Civility

Author 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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Students In Kansas' Largest School Districts Return To Classrooms During The Pandemic

Author 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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This Kansas Town Was The First To Line Up For Polio Vaccine, But Now Pandemic Skeptics Abound

Author 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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One Kansas Ambulance Ride Leads to Another When Packed Hospitals Cannot Handle Non-Covid Patients

Author Sandy West Posted on 01/11/21
Hospitals now feel widespread pressure as their intensive care units fill up with COVID-19 patients.
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You Now Have The Right To Know Your Hospital's Prices, And Here's How Experts Hope That Will Help

Author 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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Kansas Coyote Killing Competition Is So Serious That You'll Have To Pass A Lie Detector Test To Win

Author 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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Kansas Stumbles On COVID-19 Vaccinations, Leaving Health Officials Confused And Doses On Shelves

Author 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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Kansas College Students Say Campus Life During A Pandemic Is 'Like The Ocean Dried Up'

Author 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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Accused Of Coercing Women Into Sex And Lies To Solve Cases, ex-KCK Cop Takes The Fifth

Author Steve Vockrodt Posted on 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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Kansas City Poliovirus Survivor 'Hopes And Prays' Many Will Agree To COVID-19 Vaccine

Author 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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Coronavirus Vaccines Are Coming To Nursing Homes Soon, But Family Visits Likely Remain Months Away

Author Celia Llopis-Jepsen Posted on 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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Tents, Police Radios And A Grocery: Some Of The Ways Kansas Is Using $1 Billion In COVID-19 Aid

Author 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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Kansas Prisons Have Some Of The Highest COVID-19 Infection Rates In The Country

Author Nomin Ujiyediin Posted on 12/21/20
More than 5,000 inmates and 975 prison staff have tested positive for the coronavirus.
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