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July 21, 2021

• ‘A tipping point’: Kansas City hospitals are turning away patients due to COVID surge
• Missouri hits new peak in delta variant summer surge with almost 3,000 COVID cases
• Petition urges KU to require COVID vaccine for students, faculty returning to campus
• Social media reacts to Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s COVID-19 vaccine incentive lottery
• Latest news as COVID surges in Kansas City region: school rules, masks and vaccines
• Missouri Gov. Mike Parson reveals COVID vaccine incentive program with cash and prizes
• Springfield hospital to open third COVID ICU unit, urges public to get vaccinated
• Who is Donald Kauerauf, the new leader of Missouri’s state health department?
• Mystery from above. Can you identify this Kansas City-area landmark from the air?
• These Johnson County school districts will not mandate any masks for start of school
• Does your child have to wear a mask in Kansas City-area schools? Missouri side, find out (Update)
• Does your child have to wear a mask in Kansas City-area schools? Kansas side, find out
• ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Fargo’: Which films or TV with Kansas City ties were really shot here?
• If Janice Witt isn’t a threat to the status quo, why leave her a bucket of dead fish?
• New head of Missouri state health agency appointed; previously served in Illinois
• Royals’ Ryan O’Hearn, who homered Tuesday, had Brewers game marked on his calendar
• Former Royals manager Ned Yost thinks suborbital space flights are suboptimal
• Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes stars in a new Head & Shoulders commercial
• Driver dies in fiery crash after losing control in south Kansas City roundabout
• I was a pandemic Kansas substitute schoolteacher. Here’s what my students taught me
• Letters: KC readers discuss renaming Negro Creek, vaccine hesitancy and Missouri spirit
• Chiefs’ Juan Thornhill seeks ideas from Kansas City fans for custom cleats
• Man uses dog leash, duct tape to wrangle an escaped alligator in his Missouri backyard
• Popular Kansas City morning radio host returns to the airwaves after being hospitalized
• Things to do around Kansas City: Missouri bicentennial party, Festival of Butterflies
• Police investigate deadly overnight shooting near southeast Kansas City park
• Report says Texas, Oklahoma are talking about jumping from Big 12 to the SEC. Why now?
• Here’s list of cooling centers to help people stay safe in Kansas City’s heat wave
• SportsBeat KC: It’s a huge week for Kansas City Chiefs, with training camp set to begin
• Kansas City under excessive heat watch as dangerously hot conditions threaten metro
• Foiled mass shooter wanted to ‘slaughter’ women at an Ohio university, feds say
• As COVID-19 threat intensifies, KC’s health director Rex Archer looks back, and ahead
• Arrest made in killing of Kansas City, Kansas, woman shot dead in her home, police say
• ‘Eyes on the future’: Kansas City Zoo director to retire at the end of 2021
• 1 dead, driver arrested after car hits pedestrian on Kansas City highway, police say
• $1,250 ‘thank-you’ bonuses for University of Kansas hospital workers after COVID year
• Big 12 fans react to report of Texas and Oklahoma showing interest in joining SEC
• Taking summer off? Former Kansas Senate leader Suellentrop’s reckless DUI case idles
• Kansas City, Kansas schools to require mask-wearing amid renewed COVID-19 concerns
• Rising nursing home COVID-19 cases and deaths are linked to unvaccinated workers
• ‘Frustration and anger’: Topeka Frito-Lay workers strike, but agreement could be near
• Kansas City Royals win again in Milwaukee, complete season interleague sweep of Brewers
• Kansas City Royals add relief pitcher via trade with the Blue Jays. Here are details
• Devonté Graham to hold camp at SM South; Roundball Classic set for Aug. 5 in Lawrence
• Kansas City area health code violations: Toni’s Italian, Jose Cuervo’s at KCI, more