Longfellow Middle School locked down after school staff learned that a former student, who had returned to the school, allegedly may have had a weapon.
MISSION, Kan. (AP) Nursing homes are facing COVID-19 outbreaks, schools are closing and hospitals in the Kansas City area are seeing so many deaths that they are raising alarms about morgue capacity.
Nursing homes are facing COVID-19 outbreaks, schools are closing and hospitals in the Kansas City area are seeing so many deaths that they are raising alarms about morgue capacity.
The problems come as Kansas yet again shattered its record for new confirmed and probable cases. The state reported an average of 7,887 new cases a day for the seven days ending Friday nearly triple what had been the biggest peak in November 2020.