The Ford County Historical Society is the recent recipient of two grants from the Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas totaling $24,000. The first grant comes from the Beal Fund for $20,000 which, according to the historical society, will go towards funding of Americans With Disabilities Act chairlifts in the Ford County Legacy Center.
FDA approves first injectable drug to prevent HIV A new injectable treatment for HIV pre-exposure prevention, or PrEP, has been approved by the Federal Drug Administration. The drug, Apretude, is approved for at-risk adults and adolescents who weigh at least 77 pounds to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV.
U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the pandemic as the coronavirus curtailed immigration, delayed pregnancies and killed hundreds of thousands of U.S. residents, according to figures released Tuesday.
MOSCOW – The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies that NATO will not expand eastwards, blaming the West for “tensions that are building up in Europe.”
KABUL, Afghanistan – Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Kabul toward the shuttered U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, urging the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets.
The St. Louis Park Public Schools in suburban Minneapolis held in-person learning all semester, with no school closures for COVID-19 infections despite the spread of the delta variant.
Dear Abby: My adult son “Josh” has moved into the home I share with my significant other, “Tom.” Josh is 30, and Tom is in his 60s. Josh has difficulty holding jobs and leaves in fits of anger if someone upsets him at work. This has put me in the middle. When he and Tom get angry at each other, they begin shouting.
NHL shuts down Wednesday to Saturday; 5 games postponed The NHL is beginning a leaguewide shutdown Wednesday amid a rise in positive COVID-19 test results among players, and with 10 of the league’s 32 teams’ schedules already paused and their facil ities closed. The league announced Monday night that it will open its annual holiday break two days earlier than scheduled and have it run through Saturday.
For the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail the Dodge City/Fort Dodge/Cimarron Chapter of the Santa Fe Trail Association is spotlighting sites along the trail in Ford and Gray Counties.
A panel of lawmakers charged with distributing the state’s federal COVID-19 aid approved the creation of a $50 million program to give low-income families grants to help students secure books, technology or tutoring to overcome pandemic learning loss.