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08.12.2020 / 01:05

‘He was not surrounded by friends and family’: Kansas man’s obituary slams people who won’t wear masks

SCOTT CITY, Kan. - The son of an 81-year-old World War II veteran slammed residents of his rural Kansas hometown for downplaying the ongoing coronavirus pandemic after his father, who was COVID-19 positive, died after spending nearly a week in isolation at a nursing home.Dr. Marvin James Farr, who endured multiple historic crises in his lifetime, died in isolation, according to his obituary, and his family was unable to be with him in his last moments.“He was born into an America recovering from the Great Depression and about to face World War 2, times of loss and sacrifice difficult for most of us to imagine,” the obituary said.

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Kansas hospital runs out of staff amid COVID-19 surge

FILE - Signs display COVID-19 information before the game between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers outside of Memorial Stadium on September 12, 2020 in Lawrence, Kansas. (Brian Davidson/Getty Images)RELATED: US economy will return to pre-pandemic levels by second-half of 2021, experts predictAdvertisementThe staff shortages have forced people like Eric Lewallen, a Gulf War veteran and alfalfa farmer who moonlights as a radiology technician, to mount a last line of defense.

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As virus spreads, Kansas hospital runs out of staff

The radiology technician slept in an RV in the parking lot of his rural Kansas hospital for more than a week because his co-workers were out sick with COVID-19 and no one else was available to take X-rays.A doctor and physician assistant tested positive on the same day in November, briefly leaving the hospital without anyone who could write prescriptions or oversee patient care.

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Gonzaga, Baylor remain atop AP Top 25 after game scrapped

AP Top 25 men's basketball poll Monday after their hotly anticipated weekend game in Indianapolis was called off about 90 minutes before tipoff because of positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the Bulldogs' program.Gonzaga received 54 of 61 first-place votes from a national media panel while the Bears had the other seven. Iowa remained third after Luka Garza's monster week powered the Hawkeyes to a pair of easy victories, Michigan State climbed four spots to No.

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Mahomes' fiancé part of NWSL expansion team ownership

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The National Women's Soccer League is returning to Kansas City after an ownership group led by local businesspeople that includes the fiancé of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was awarded an expansion franchise Monday.League commissioner Lisa Baird also said the ownership group, which is led by the husband-wife team of Angie and Chris Long and their Kansas City-based Palmer Square Capital Management, will assume all of the player rights, draft picks and other necessary assets from Utah Royals FC as that club winds down its operations.“This is a tremendous opportunity for our league,” Baird said.

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Wright powers Georgia Tech past slumping No. 20 Kentucky

ATLANTA – Moses Wright scored 21 points and Georgia Tech recovered from a poor start to the season to beat No. 20 Kentucky 79-62 on Sunday, giving the Wildcats their third straight loss.Georgia Tech (1-2) rebounded with a strong performance following losses to state rivals Georgia State and Mercer.

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No. 7 Kansas overcomes offensive woes, beats No. 20 Kentucky

INDIANAPOLIS – Jalen Wilson scored 21 of his career-high 23 points in the second half and posted his first double-double to help No. 7 Kansas get past No.

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Gonzaga, Baylor stay atop AP Top 25; Va. Tech, Richmond in

in the poll released Monday. The Zags received 57 of 63 first-place votes from a media panel and the Bears had six first-place votes.

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The Latest: Russia sees record number of virus deaths again

China’s claims of coronavirus on frozen foods— Restaurant employees out of work again as coronavirus surges anew— A migrant’s odyssey from boat to COVID-19 nursing job in Spain— Christmas traditions axed as pandemic sweeps rural Kansas— Germany set to extend partial shutdown well into December___Follow AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak___HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:SANTA FE, N.M.

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Christmas traditions axed as pandemic sweeps rural Kansas

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. – It's barely a town anymore, battered by time on the windswept prairie of northwest Kansas. COVID-19 still managed for find Norcatur.Not much remains of the rural hamlet, save for service station, a grain elevator, a little museum, and a weekend hangout where the locals play pool, eat pizza and drink beer.

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'Covid denier' changes opinion after nearly dying in brutal virus fight

Covid-19.“I had a friend who was a critical care nurse in New York City,” he says, “and I heard what was going on there.“I firmly believed that as healthy as I was, I wouldn’t get it, it wouldn’t affect me."He says he thought the pandemic was only a problem for older people, or people in big cities, and it wouldn’t be a problem for him, in rural Parsons, Kansas. He admits that his attitude back then was “ridiculous and inexcusable.”Because now, seven months after he was first diagnosed with coronavirus, Anil is still weak and tired, and short of breath.

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Mask mandates work to slow spread of COVID-19, CDC study finds

TOPEKA, Kan. - Government mandates that require people to wear masks in public help slow the spread of COVID-19, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The findings, published Nov.

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‘We’re drowning’: Hospitals in America’s heartland flooded with covid cases

COVID-19 victim were crashing, and Kearny County Hospital in rural Lakin, Kansas, just wasn’t equipped to handle the case. Miller, Kearny’s chief medical officer - who doubles as the county health officer - called around to larger hospitals in search of an ICU bed.

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Trends in County-Level COVID-19 Incidence in Counties With and Without a Mask Mandate — Kansas, June 1–August 23, 2020

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Texas-Kansas among 6 major college games postponed by virus

No. 22 Texas at Kansas was among six games postponed Wednesday by COVID-19 problems as the virus took another chunk out of this weekend’s major college football schedule.

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Top freshmen forge their own paths in picking schools

composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports, those three schools landed only two of the top 12 recruits in this year’s freshman class: Kentucky guards Brandon Boston Jr. (No.

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Balance of power: Democrats’ Senate hopes narrow as they cling to House control

Kansas and Montana, dramatically limiting the places where Democrats hoped to make inroads.FILE - Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are seen on the East Front of the Capitol after a memorial service for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 25, 2020.

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No. 1 Zags: Gonzaga begins season atop Top 25 for first time

the preseason Associated Press Top 25 heading toward the delayed Nov. 25 start of the season.“It’s a great honor to be selected No.

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Convention centers, museums become classrooms amid pandemic

MISSION, Kan. – In ordinary times, the airy convention center on a 61-acre site in Hesston, Kansas, hosts weddings, corporate retreats and church events. During the pandemic, it has become a schoolhouse for the district's seventh- and eighth-graders.Megan Kohlman teaches literature and writing inside one of the rooms, separated from a math teacher's space by only a plastic sheet.

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No. 14 Oklahoma State holds off Kansas State, 20-18

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Jason Taylor II returned a fumble 85 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, and Oklahoma State stopped Kansas State's 2-point try that would have tied it with 2:08 to go, allowing the No. 14 Cowboys to escape with a 20-18 victory Saturday night.The Cowboys' Spencer Sanders was held to just 108 yards passing without dynamic wide receiver Tylan Wallace and with running back Chuba Hubbard slowed by an injury.

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6 Native candidates elected to Congress, breaking record

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Dust Bowl 2.0? Rising Great Plains dust levels stir concerns

Roland PeaseEarlier this month, a storm front swept across the Great Plains of the United States, plowing up a wall of dust that could be seen from space, stretching from eastern Colorado into Nebraska and Kansas. It was a scene straight from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when farmers regularly saw soil stripped from their fields and whipped up into choking blizzards of dust.Better get used to it.

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Race into NASCAR's championship round begins at Kansas

Not much has changed through NASCAR's first two rounds of playoffs: Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin are still favored to race for the championship and the other two contenders are a crapshoot. The path to the championship finale begins Sunday at Kansas Speedway, the first of three races in the title-setting third round.

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One arrested in threat to kidnap and kill Wichita mayor over COVID-19 mask mandate

A Kansas man has been arrested in connection with threatening to kidnap and kill a mayor over a mandatory mask ordinance, which he called a form of tyranny, the mayor said Friday. Meredith Dowty, 59, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail, according to records, though he has not been charged. Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple said another city official read him the text messages Dowty is accused of writing.They asked about his address and threatened his life, the Kansas City Star reported.

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Feds to execute woman who killed victim, cut baby from womb

WASHINGTON – A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades, the Justice Department said Friday.Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec.

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Kansas coach cleared of virus but skips West Virginia game

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas coach Les Miles has been cleared to return to the Jayhawks after his positive test for COVID-19, but out of caution is skipping the team's trip to West Virginia for Saturday's game.The 66-year-old Miles announced last week that routine testing had returned a positive test.

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COVID-19 cases surging in US as several states report record increases

compiled Oct. 15 by Johns Hopkins University.

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COVID-19 testing firm brings 200 jobs to Perth

Perth and Kinross Council’s leader said bringing 200 jobs to the Fair City is “the biggest employment opportunity in Perth in years.” The Conservative leader was ecstatic to secure a deal with Thermo Fisher Scientific to help meet the global demand for COVID-19 tests. The American company is expanding its Inveralmond site to allow the manufacturing of eight million sample collection tubes a week.

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Trump's task: Resetting campaign that GOP fears is slipping

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of self-inflicted setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost to Democrat Joe Biden.The one-two punch of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and his widely panned debate performance also has Republicans worried they could lose control of the Senate.

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Democrat's praise of strict gun law roils Kansas Senate race

TOPEKA, Kan. – Republicans on Sunday circulated a video of the Democrats' candidate for an open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas praising strict Australian gun laws that she said “took them all away” to undercut her campaign as a political moderate in what's been an unexpectedly tough red-state race for the GOP.Democrat Barbara Bollier's spokeswoman accused Republican Roger Marshall's campaign of being “duplicitous" in highlighting the video.

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Iowa State hands No. 18 Oklahoma second straight loss, 37-30

AMES, Iowa – Breece Hall scored the go-ahead touchdown on an 8-yard run with 4:06 left and Isheem Young intercepted Spencer Rattler's pass in the end zone on No. 18 Oklahoma's final drive, giving Iowa State a 37-30 victory Saturday night.The Sooners (1-2), beaten at home by Kansas State last week, lost back-to-back regular-season games for the first time since 1999.

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Mosquitoes cannot transmit the coronavirus: Study

Mosquitoes cannot transmit COVID-19A mosquito that bites a person with COVID-19 cannot pass the coronavirus infection to its next victim, according to a study by researchers from U.S. Department of Agriculture and Kansas State University.

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Kansas State stuns No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35

NORMAN, Okla. – Skylar Thompson passed for 334 yards and ran for three touchdowns, and Kansas State rallied from 21 points down to beat No. 3 Oklahoma 38-35 on Saturday.Freshman Deuce Vaughn caught four passes for 129 yards and ran for a touchdown for the Wildcats, who were coming off a season-opening loss to Arkansas State.

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Would you ever consider this? Some parents are delaying preschool, kindergarten amid pandemic

MISSION, Kan. – Claire Reagan was feeling overwhelmed as her oldest child’s first day of kindergarten approached and with a baby on the way. The 5-year-old boy has autism, and she worried he would struggle with juggling in-person and virtual learning, and that she wouldn’t have enough time to give him the help he needs.So she decided to wait a year before sending him to school.“I was stressed about everything and then thought ‘Why does he need to start kindergarten?’ And it was like a weight was lifted,” said Reagan, a 36-year-old high school teacher in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, Kansas.Thousands of parents around the U.S.

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US parents delaying preschool and kindergarten amid pandemic

MISSION, Kan. – Claire Reagan was feeling overwhelmed as her oldest child's first day of kindergarten approached and with a baby on the way. The 5-year-old boy has autism, and she worried he would struggle with juggling in-person and virtual learning, and that she wouldn't have enough time to give him the help he needs.So she decided to wait a year before sending him to school.

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Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 77

Gale Sayers in Chicago Bears uniform. (Photo: Getty Images) Gale Sayers, a Chicago Bears legend and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, died Wednesday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame announced. He was 77."All those who love the game of football mourn the loss of one of the greatest to ever play this Game with the passing of Chicago Bears legend Gale Sayers," Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker said in a statement.

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Mixed messages hamstring US COVID-19 response

US officials continued to send mixed messages about the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine and the benefits of masks, as vaccine developer Moderna today released a document that spells out how it's conducting phase 3 trials.

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Return of football renews fears over more virus spread

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – The kickoff of the NFL season Thursday with 17,000 fans in the stadium illustrates on a global stage the nation’s determination to resume its most popular sport in the middle of a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 Americans.The topic has led to passionate debates at the state and local level, including whether to allow high school seasons to proceed and how many fans to allow in professional and college stadiums. Many high schools have started football but states like California and Illinois cancelled the entire season.

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Famed basketball coach Roy Williams pays tribute to Budig

A Hall of Famer with three national championships and a familiar face at the Final Four, it would seem Roy Williams was destined for big things in basketball.The way the North Carolina coach tells it, a lot of credit goes to a future baseball leader who really went to bat for him.Williams paid tribute Wednesday to Gene Budig, a day after the former American League president and head of three major universities died at 81.“He was the guy that gave Roy Williams a chance,” Williams told The Associated Press.

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Delaware once again among states added to New Jersey quarantine advisory list

TRENTON, N.J. - Delaware is once again among the nearly three-dozen states and U.S.

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Trump calls for boycott of Goodyear after employee shares photo of 'discriminatory' zero-tolerance policy

A file image taken Feb. 12, 2018 shows a Goodyear Tire & Service location in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Pizza Hut franchisee NPC International files bankruptcy: 300 restaurants, mostly dine-in locations, to close

LEAWOOD, Kan. - Up to 300 Pizza Hut restaurants will be closed, most of them dine-in locations not well suited for carryout and delivery at a time when millions of people are sheltering and eating at home.Pizza sales have exploded during the pandemic.Domino’s last month reported a 30% spike in quarterly profits.On Monday it said that it was hiring more than 20,000 people to handle surging orders.Franchisee NPC International said Monday in documents filed in bankruptcy court that it had come to an agreement with Pizza Hut to close hundreds of locations.AdvertisementThe Leawood, Kansas, company filed for bankruptcy protection last month.

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US reaches 5 million COVID-19 cases, experts press for bold steps ahead of fall

Yesterday the United States reached another grim milestone in its battle with the COVID-19 pandemic: more than 5 million cases, with 1 million of those cases being confirmed in just the past 17 days.

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Pfizer signs multi-year deal to manufacture Gilead’s remdesivir

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Pfizer has entered into a multi-year agreement to manufacture and supply Gilead Science’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir, for the treatment of Covid-19 patients. As part of the deal, Pfizer will provide contract manufacturing services at its McPherson, Kansas facility to produce and supply the drug candidate for Gilead.

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US scientists claim to find potential therapeutic treatment for coronavirus

WASHINGTON : Scientists at Kansas State University in the United States have claimed to found a potential therapeutic treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and other coronaviruses.The study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, has found that small molecule protease inhibitors show potency against human coronaviruses.The scientists said the coronavirus 3C-like proteases, known as 3CLpro, are strong therapeutic targets because they play vital roles in coronavirus replication."Vaccine developments and treatments are the biggest targets in COVID-19 research, and treatment is really key," said Kyeong-Ok Chang, a professor at Kansas State University in the US, reported news agency PTI."This paper describes

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MLS is Back Tournament: Quarterfinals preview

FILE - Orlando City midfielder Cristian Higuita (7) controls the ball away from Los Angeles FC defender Tristan Blackmon (27) during the soccer match between LAFC and Orlando City on Sept. 7, 2019, at Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Fla.

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DO NOT OPEN: Florida officials warn of suspicious seed packages being sent through mail

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services officials are warning residents about suspicious seed packets that some Floridians are receiving unexpectedly through the mail, according to a news release.The surprise shipments, which may bear the name China Post and could be disguised as jewelry, have been reported in several other states, including Virginia, Kansas, Washington, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Utah, according to Florida agriculture officials.As of Monday, the FDACS had received at least 160 reports from Floridians who said they’d received the suspicious seed packages.

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Q&A: How should parents talk to kids about going back to school during the COVID-19 pandemic?

ORLANDO, Fla. – Stress has been building for weeks as the deadline approaches to decide how students will go back to school during the coronavirus pandemic. News 6 spoke with two specialists about how those decisions can affect children’s mental health. Amanda Reineck is a behavioral health coordinator for Embrace Families in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties. Dr.

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