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Members of the Basehor-Linwood Board of Education will have a series of meetings to discuss a possible bond issue for improvements at the school district’s high school. Basehor-Linwood High School may see a surge in enrollment by the 2026-2027 school year, leading to concerns about future overcrowding at that facility, Superintendent Doug Powers said.

A federal judge’s decision to strike down a national mask mandate was met with cheers on some airplanes but also concern about whether it’s really time to end one of the most visible vestiges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work.

Classic film lovers know the importance of a grand entrance and the folks at Turner Classic Movies are pulling out all the stops for the return of the TCM Classic Film Festival this week in Hollywood.

A fire at the Logistics Readiness Command headquarters at Fort Leavenworth remains under investigation, according to a fort spokesman. Tuesday’s fire was contained to one room and damage was minimal, according to fort spokesman George Marcec.

The Lansing City Council is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lansing City Hall, 800 First Terrace.

Kansas to set up weevil program, let drinkers roam at fair New Kansas laws will make the state fair home to drinkers who roam and allow the state to tax each bale of home-grown cotton up to $2 to pay for efforts to get rid of the bug that ruins cotton crops. Democratic Gov.

Russia assaulted cities and towns along a boomerang-shaped front hundreds of miles long and poured more troops into Ukraine on Tuesday in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.