Douglas County commissioners will be considering a change that would make it easier for them to remove a road’s minimum maintenance designation on Wednesday. With county staff’s proposed changes, commissioners could remove a minimum maintenance designation — which is given to a public ...
TOPEKA — Susan Schlag went to vote with her husband and 18-year-old son Tuesday morning, only to find that their Linwood polling place had run out of paper ballots. Although Schlag and her husband were able to wait in line for the single electronic voting machine, her son had to leave for a ...
A 74-year-old Lawrence landlord is standing trial this week on multiple allegations of child sex crimes dating back to 2016. According to the state, the defendant, Mark Duane Strand, took indecent liberties with three girls under the age of 14, including raping one of them repeatedly when she ...
Everything that goes around comes around — just not always in the correct order. That was proven on Sunday by the blankety-blank No. 6. The horses indeed went all the way around the track at Eureka Downs, but I never could quite get them to come around in the right order. I lost a $1 ...
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The massive amounts of water that flooded parts of the U.S. Southwest turned some communities into lakes of mud, leaving residents dealing with the loss of homes and businesses as they started cleaning up Tuesday. Jack Ellis, a retired school teacher, surveyed ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Investigators found part of the tail of the jet that crashed in South Florida more than a mile from the crater caused when the aircraft made impact. National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman said during a news conference Tuesday that the discovery ...
