University Health: Regular testing hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon. Testing is available at the Lakewood campus at 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, Kansas City, and the Hospital Hill site at 2211 Charlotte, Kansas City.
The Kansas City Public Library is hosting several events in honor of Women’s History Month. In addition to the programs listed below, other events can be found by visiting https:// kclibrary.org/ and looking up “Women’s History Month.”
Bitcoin has made an absolutely remarkable run over the last decade. It may have gone up higher and faster than any other asset class, ever. It was trading under $5,000 at the onset of the 2020 COVID lockdowns, before running over $60,000 less than a year later. Today, I’d like to talk about why you might want to care from a perspective you may not have considered.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday the U.S. will ban all Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, but he acknowledged it will bring costs to Americans, particularly at the gas pump.
Much of the country is headed into the season that typically brings the most destructive and deadly weather of the year. Authorities remind people to be aware of not just tornadoes but dangers such as flash flooding.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week that will mark the first step toward regulating how digital currency is traded. The move comes as administration officials have raised concerns in recent weeks about Russia’s use of cryptocurrency to evade the impact of crushing sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine.
While a third-party investigator hired by the city looks into the alleged misuse of police overtime in the city of Independence, one City Council member pushed to have the council have an additional investigator.
WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) — Four of the seven people killed in devastating storms that tore through central Iowa were members of the same family -- three of them from Blue Springs -- who had sought shelter inside a home that was razed by a powerful tornado, authorities said.
By The Examiner staff The Centers for Disease Control has announced new standards for community level transmission of COVID-19, and the continued drops in new cases and hospitalizations place Jackson County at the “medium” level – the middle of three levels. But although the county as a whole is at medium by CDC metrics, the Independence Health Department still considers the city’s transmission rate to be high.
Gasoline prices are pushing even further above $4 a gallon, the highest price that American motorists have faced since July 2008, as calls grow to ban imports of Russian oil. Prices at the pump were rising long before Russia invaded Ukraine and have spiraled faster since the start of the war.