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Halloween-specific candies and packaging are already available in some grocery stores in the U.S.
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|By Associated Press
AMC Theatres, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Ruby Munguia
While coping with the death of her mother to COVID-19 earlier this year, a Wichita woman puts forth an effort to give back to healthcare workers in Wichita who are on the frontline daily, treating patients in the COVID Unit at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Associated Press and Hailey Tucker
The move came one day after the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they would not be participating this fall.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The White House’s top negotiator is trying to revive stalled talks over coronavirus aid.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Associated Press
These drugs are believed to last for a month or more and could give quick, temporary immunity to people at high risk of infection, such as health workers and housemates of someone with COVID-19.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By Angela Smith
Colby Public Schools is warning students and parents that they may have been exposed to COVID-19 if they attended a middle school concussion video meeting last week.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Angela Rose
Sedgwick County announced 12 cases of COVID-19 at the Wichita Center adult care home.
Updated: 17 hours ago
Wichita Public Schools confirmed on Wednesday that a staff member at Curtis Middle School has tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Matt Heilman
Pittsburg State University starts its fall semester next week and with that comes an expectation for about 600 students to move to residence halls on campus this weekend.
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Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The Treasury Department says the U.S. budget deficit climbed to $2.81 trillion in the first 10 months of the budget year.
Updated: 19 hours ago
|By Angela Smith
The Kansas Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that the Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF) Central Unit is on lockdown after several staff and residents tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Kylie Cameron
The total number of cases the state has seen since March now sits at 32,547.
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Millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail this fall as the nation grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Sarah Motter
Dr. Lee Norman, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said at his COVID-19 news conference on Wednesday that mass gatherings continue to be an issue for the state in fighting the deadly virus.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 6:21 AM CDT
|By staff
The vaccine is still in clinical trials and has not been approved by the FDA but is already being manufactured, so if it is approved, it can be rolled out quickly.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 6:20 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Health authorities in New Zealand were scrambling Wednesday to trace the source of a new outbreak of the coronavirus as the nation’s largest city went back into lockdown.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 6:20 AM CDT
During a time when many businesses are struggling to stay afloat, the last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Oregon, is defying the odds.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2020 at 6:07 AM CDT
A 17-year-old hostess at Chili’s was reportedly attacked by a group of more than 11 women after she told them they could not all sit together, per the restaurant’s COVID-19 social distancing policies.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:49 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The move comes six day after the conference that includes historic programs such as Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska and Penn State had released a revised conference-only schedule that it hoped would help it navigate a fall season with potential COVID-19 disruptions.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 5:47 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:38 PM CDT
|By Matt Heilman
The ordinance, first enacted on July 3, mandates that face coverings are worn when residents are in any public space where social distancing of six feet at all times is not possible.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:38 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from the coronavirus. However, scientists at home and abroad have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials could backfire.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:33 PM CDT
|By AARON MORRISON and ASHRAF KHALIL
A national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the District of Columbia.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:25 PM CDT
|By Angela Smith
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) amended its travel quarantine list, removing the state of Florida and adding attendance at mass gatherings greater than 500 people.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 2:11 PM CDT
|By Gray News staff
In the study, scientists were looking for the masks that best contain the droplets that are created when people speak.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 12:57 PM CDT
|By CNN Staff
Digital eye strain was an issue before COVID-19, but now it’s a bigger one, with some kids spending more time on their devices.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 11:44 AM CDT
|By Angela Smith
The Harvey County Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to extend a local order requiring face masks be worn in the county through Sept. 15 in a continued effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 10:29 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Anxious parents around the country are looking to schools that have already opened for signs of how it might go.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 6:04 AM CDT
|By NICK PERRY
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2020 at 3:28 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
With more than 60 million beneficiaries, Social Security is funded by a 12.4% payroll tax evenly divided between employees and employers. Deferral could mean that up to $100 billion in payments would be delayed.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:24 PM CDT
|By Braxton Jones
The situation in major college football is reportedly split with two Power 5 conferences (the Pac-12 and the Big 10) expected to postpone fall sports and others (the SEC and the ACC) expected to go as planned. That leaves the Big 12, including Kansas and Kansas State, caught in the middle.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 8:10 PM CDT
|By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Governors and state labor department officials around the country are scrambling to figure out if it is feasible to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to partially extend enhanced unemployment insurance for millions of Americans struggling to find work in the pandemic-scarred economy.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:22 PM CDT
|By Alex Flippin
A chart, concerning masks and COVID-19 cases used by Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) Secretary Dr. Lee Norman, stirs controversy as some argue information is misleading, not matching up with what it shows.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:11 PM CDT
|By MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAUREN WEBER
Vilified, threatened with violence and in some cases burned out, dozens of state and local public health officials around the country have resigned or have been fired amid the coronavirus outbreak, a testament to how politically combustible masks, lockdowns and infection data have become.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 6:45 PM CDT
|By Associated Press and LISA MASCARO
With Republicans again balking at big government bailouts, Democratic leaders are holding firm. They are using their leverage to force President Donald Trump into a politically risky standoff over help for millions of Americans.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By Hailey Tucker
The KU School of Medicine in Wichita is looking for participants in a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine. To be eligible, you must be at least 18 years old.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 1:13 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Antonio Banderas says he’s tested positive for COVID-19 and is celebrating his 60th birthday in quarantine.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 12:59 PM CDT
|By Danielle Martin and Shawn Wheat
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the graph used last week during a news conference may have been confusing, but contends it was accurate.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By Ed Payne
The Sunday vote by school presidents was 12-2 to call off fall sports because of the pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
New Zealand on Sunday marked 100 days since it stamped out the spread of the coronavirus, a rare bright spot in a world that continues to be ravaged by the disease.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:35 AM CDT
|By WJLA Staff
After a car chase, authorities say they found the suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was taken into custody but died from his injuries just days later.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 7:16 AM CDT
|By TERRY SPENCER
Concerns about school infrastructure are adding momentum to plans in some districts, even in colder climates, to take classes outdoors for the sake of student and teacher health.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 8:58 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The primaries for voting centers that had not received ballots by early afternoon are expected to be rescheduled, while voting would continue elsewhere, the commission said.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 8:51 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
After negotiations with lawmakers on the next package of pandemic economic assistance hit a wall, Trump used what he said were the inherent powers of the presidency to forge ahead on tax and spending policy that Congress says it is granted by the Constitution.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 7:50 PM CDT
|By Shawn Loging
After suffering a heart attack, COVID-19, and kidney failure, Kevin Brown’s family is talking about the challenging recovery ahead.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Gray News staff
The principal of North Paulding High School in a suburb west of Atlanta sent a letter Saturday to parents disclosing the positive tests.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By DAN SEWELL and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
The Ohio governor’s positive, then negative, tests for COVID-19 have provided fuel for skeptics of government pandemic mandates and critics of his often-aggressive policies.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By NICOLE WINFIELD and LISA MARIE PANE
The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. reached 5 million Sunday, by far the highest in the world, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2020 at 5:38 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The fourth COVID-19 test result for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine came back negative Saturday after he received conflicting positive and negative results two days before, ahead of a scheduled meeting with President Trump.