LJWorld.com Headlines for August 22, 2020

ang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns=" xmlns:cctd="> [Bureau of Prisons mum on status of Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel's home confinement request]( It has been five weeks since Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel was sentenced to a year in prison for his scheme to collect fraudulent tax refunds from the City of Lawrence, but it is unclear where his request to serve his sentence at home ... [Bureau of Prisons mum on status of Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel's home confinement request]( By: Rochelle Valverde It has been five weeks since Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel was sentenced to a year in prison for his scheme to collect fraudulent tax refunds from the City of Lawrence, but it is unclear where his request to serve his sentence at home ... August 21, 2020 @ 6:17pm [Free State, Lawrence High look for new football opponents after Johnson County schools suspend fall sports]( By: Matt Tait The Lawrence High and Free State High varsity football teams are looking for new Week 1 opponents following Friday’s decision by the Olathe and Shawnee Mission school districts to suspend fall sports because of the spread of COVID-19 in ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:53pm [Payless plans a U.S. comeback, and Lawrence hopes it will result in more jobs locally]( By: Chad Lawhorn There’s a shoe deal that Lawrence leaders may want to keep an eye on, and for once it doesn’t involve what the latest athlete at Allen Fieldhouse is wearing. Instead, it involves Payless. You remember the discount shoe brand that for ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:59pm [Three new COVID-19-related deaths in county; cases in Douglas County increase to 889]( By: Staff Report Three more Douglas County residents have died from COVID-19, the health department announced on Friday. Previously, Douglas County announced that five people — a male resident in his 70s, three male residents in their 80s and one female ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:43pm [Deadline to withdraw from KU courses with 100% refund extended ahead of uncertain fall semester]( By: Conner Mitchell University of Kansas students now have one more week to withdraw from their fall classes and still get their full tuition money back. Just three days ahead of an unprecedented fall semester taking place in the middle of a global pandemic, KU ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:43pm [Eudora school district moving to fully in-person classes]( By: Dylan Lysen The Eudora school district will move to fully in-person classes shortly after starting the school year. During a special meeting on Thursday, the Eudora school board approved a recommendation from Superintendent Steve Splichal to have fully ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:40pm [KU releases decision-making metrics for pandemic medical advisory team, will open for fall semester with 'low density']( By: Conner Mitchell When the University of Kansas campus officially opens Monday for the start of the fall semester, it will do so with a low physical density, according to new guidance issued from the university's Pandemic Medical Advisory Team. In a broader ... August 21, 2020 @ 5:00pm [Are bars open legally in Douglas County? Health department is still determining the specifics]( By: Lauren Fox It’s been more than a month and a half since the health department issued a pandemic-related order requiring bars to close in Douglas County. But the health department is still determining what exactly that means. In the first week of July, ... August 21, 2020 @ 4:48pm [Lawrence school board to consider furloughing food service staff during remote learning period]( By: Dylan Lysen Food service staff at the Lawrence school district may be set to be furloughed during the district’s initial remote learning period. The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider giving the school district’s administration the authority ... August 21, 2020 @ 4:44pm [Kansas offers counties drop-off boxes for mail-in ballots]( By: Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas secretary of state's office has offered each of the state's 105 counties up to two drop-off boxes where people can deposit their absentee ballots for the November election if they don't mail them in or want ... August 21, 2020 @ 3:59pm [Kansas sees schools moving online, crowd-size reductions]( By: John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press Story updated at 5:15 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — Two large Kansas school districts moved classes online for middle and high-schoolers while public health officials in Topeka imposed stricter crowd size limits to stem the spread of the ... August 21, 2020 @ 3:23pm [KU says it will share information on COVID-19 outbreaks that arise, but many specifics remain unclear]( By: Conner Mitchell Three days ahead of an unprecedented fall semester at the University of Kansas, a university spokesperson confirmed to the Journal-World on Friday that KU would share "timely public health information" about outbreaks of COVID-19 that arise on ... August 21, 2020 @ 2:51pm [Lawrence police blotter for Aug. 21, 2020]( By: Staff Report Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous ... August 21, 2020 @ 2:50pm [3 LHS students, a school district employee test positive for COVID-19]( By: Dylan Lysen Three Lawrence High School students participating in extracurricular activities and a school district administrative staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus. School district officials this week sent three letters to parents and ... August 21, 2020 @ 12:13pm [Local unemployment up more than 3,000 people for the year; a look at the hardest hit areas]( By: Chad Lawhorn Douglas County’s unemployment rate dipped ever so slightly in July, but the number of unemployed in the county still was up by more than 3,100 people compared to a year ago. The state on Friday released its labor report for July, and it ... 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