Jodi Fortino

Tuesday's announcement from Mayor Quinton Lucas follows new CDC guidance urging that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant COVID-19 spread.

A Kansas City area school district, named after a Native American tribe itself, is retiring some Native American mascots, deeming them derogatory or offensive.

Shawnee Mission North was followed by three elementary schools this week in its decision to drop its Native American mascot, which was determined to be offensive under a new district policy.

Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. said he was looking to kill Jews when he fatally shot three people in Overland Park in April 2014. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2015.

Most of the patients who are turned away are from rural areas with no mask mandates, said Dr. Heather Harris, Hays Medical Center's medical director.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, spoke Saturday with local health officials and Gov. Laura Kelly about what more needs to be done in the state to halt the spread of the virus.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has added Kansas to a travel advisory list of states. Many in the Kansas City area have already changed summer travel plans.

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