The Billy Mills Middle School assistant principal and athletics director has been named as principal of West Middle School, pending approval by the Lawrence school board. The school district announced Monday that Superintendent Anthony Lewis had selected Kady Carson as the new leader of West, ...
Whether a murder trial set for the first week of March will be held was called into question on Friday after a judge ruled that the defense attorney cannot take the stand to testify on his teen client's behalf about how the alleged murder weapon was found. The teen defendant, Derrick Del Reed, ...
At a special meeting scheduled for April, Douglas County commissioners will consider a permit for a proposed commercial-scale solar energy facility. The proposed Kansas Sky Energy Center would be constructed on land just north of Lawrence and west of Lawrence Regional Airport. The project ...
More than two dozen students from Lawrence's Southwest Middle School received special recognition at the recent Future City Competition international finals in Washington, D.C. The group, representing the Great Plains Future City Kansas-KC Metro Region, brought home the "Outstanding Future ...
Despite a few lingering questions, Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a $30,000 funding request that will help Lawrence’s chamber of commerce fund a variety of business and entrepreneurship initiatives. At its regular meeting, the commission unanimously voted to fund the ...
Liberty Memorial Central Middle School's Felix Kirkland took first place at the Douglas County Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge last Friday, winning a $1,250 check and the chance to represent the county in a statewide competition later this year. According to a news release from the county, ...