DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 68 and have prostate cancer. I had PSAs, an MRI and a biopsy. My Gleason score was a high 7. No genetic testing as I can recall. My urologist said I had “upper moderate” cancer and that I could remove my prostate or do radiation therapy. I underwent three months of radiation treatment from September to November 2020. I’ve done three PSA tests since the radiation. All have been very low and, per my doc, good.
Dear Amy: My daughter’s boyfriend is a selftaught personal trainer (with no professional training). He had previously been an airplane mechanic.
Government regulation of women who become pregnant from rape has suddenly grabbed national headlines. That’s because state legislatures around America are considering numerous controversial bills that would ban abortion access for these women.
Fire teams he’s talked with recently have told him the strategies they’ve used to suppress wildfires in past years aren’t working as well now. And even if they can get a blaze under control, the smoldering embers have been more likely to reignite.
TOPEKA — Republican Sen. Rick Kloos added his voice to a national movement to ban books from public school libraries by demanding immediate removal from Shawnee Heights High School of the autobiography “Gender Queer” because he contends it wasn’t suitable for teenagers.
Real cowboys ride horses and work with cattle, but the dictionary has numerous definitions for “cowboy.” Working cowboys who ride horses generally dislike and disagree with certain other dictionary wording. That is “one having qualities as an aggressive, independent businessman; a romantic figure in folklore.” Whatever Daniel Webster says, it really doesn’t matter.
TOPEKA — Psychologist Shawna Wright said only four of the state’s 105 counties have enough behavioral health professionals to meet demands of the population, and that shortage contributes to looping of mentally ill people in and out of the criminal justice system.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State funds for Kansas’ public schools have been held up as Republican lawmakers push for policies critics say would punish educators for court rulings that forced the GOP-controlled Legislature to boost its spending.
LINDSBORG – This past week, the Smoky Valley USD 400 high school musical theater received notices that they have earned a listing for Jester Award nominations and Regional Honorees for this year. In a statement released by Eric Lundstrom, Smoky Valley Theater Director, it was explained that Jester Awards is a program through the Music Theater in Wichita in which high schools pay to have their musical productions adjudicated.
TOPEKA — The Kansas unemployment rate remained steady at 2.5% in March while inflation eclipsed wage improvements to produce a decline in real earnings, state labor officials said Friday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for the state held at the February level after diminishing far below the 3.5% recorded in March 2021, based on estimates by the Kansas Department of Labor and the U.S.