The first COVID-19 report after Christmas shows the new omicron variant has been detected in nine Kansas counties, while hospitals continue to feel the brunt of the surge. “Stormont Vail Health, like other hospitals in our region, continues to feel the impact of the pandemic with almost all of our staffed beds full today,” hospital CEO Robert Kenagy said in a Monday statement to the Topeka area community.
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For more than 25 years, the Leavenworth County Council on Aging has been providing Christmas gifts to more than 400 local senior citizens through generous donations from churches, businesses, organizations and individuals. Santa delivered those gifts in mid-December, including several stops in Basehor.
Scrappy is an adult male orange tabby cat available for adoption through the Fort Leavenworth Stray Facility. Neutering, vaccinations and microchipping are included in his adoption fee. The FLSF is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. the second Saturday of the month and by appointment for pre-approved adopters. Call 913-684-4939 or email fortleavenworthstrayfacility@gmail.com for more information. PRUDENCE SIEBERT/FORT LEAVENWORTH LAMP
Lansing Mayor Tony O’Neill, left, accepts a $500 check from Greg Robinson for the Mayor’s Christmas Tree program. Robinson, Lansing city attorney, said he was acting as a private citizen in making the donation on behalf of the business owned by him and his brother, Gary, who recently died, as well as the customers who donated to the cause. CONNIE PARISH
I prefer to believe that climate change is caused by humans rather than to think that it is inevitable because it is part of the natural cycle of change. If it is caused by humans, then it may be possible to make a correction in how we do things so that we can get the climate back to where it will support our lives.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, can spread within days from the airways to the heart, brain and almost every organ system in the body, where it may persist for months, a study found.
JOHANNESBURG – Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy is reverberating among young South Africans, many not born when the clergyman battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s Black majority.
WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Monday the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signaling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden administration has previously eschewed, as COVID-19 cases spike.
VIENNA – Negotiators from Iran and five world powers resumed negotiations Monday on restoring Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal, with Iran insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow it to export its crude oil.