KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was brutally honest about his decision to trade disgruntled defensive end Melvin Ingram to the Chiefs, saying “we prefer volunteers as opposed to hostages” in the Pittsburgh locker room.
PARADISE, Kansas — This time of year, rancher Rich Koester is normally busy caring for newborn calves or feeding his herd to get them ready for winter. Instead, he’s busy burying livestock.
In recent weeks, researchers in Australia discovered “the first true millipede” – a 3-inch-long creature with 1,306 legs. But that bug doesn’t come close to a recently discovered ancestor from over 300 million years ago, one that scientists in England say was a giant millipede “as big as a car” at nearly 9 feet long.
Although some may fear sharks when swimming in open waters, these often misunderstood creatures may hold a way to help protect us from the coronavirus, new research suggests. As one of the ocean’s top predators, sharks have antibody-like proteins that can stop the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study published Dec.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. But despite the high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped. The administration is still working on details for how the program will work.
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.
Few optimists exist anymore when it comes to COVID-19. Indeed, few in the health care community thought they were done with the virus after a delta variant-fueled surge in late summer.
A Reno County native and his young family were among a dozen Anabaptist missionaries who made a daring escape from kidnappers in Haiti last week. His family in Reno County, who said they were praying almost continuously for him and his family and the other captives, described it as a Christmas miracle.
MANHATTAN — Kansas State’s football and basketball coaches sent their players home for Christmas as scheduled this week, but not without some trepidation. COVID-19 outbreaks have wreaked havoc with sporting events nationwide in recent days, forcing postponements and cancellations across the college and professional ranks.
LAWRENCE — Kansas men’s basketball will no longer face Harvard on Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse, as the Ivy League team announced Sunday the contest had been canceled “due to COVID-19 concerns and safety protocols within” the Crimson program.