TOPEKA — Kansas on Tuesday began a partial hand recount of this month’s decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights, a move forced by two Republican activists even though the margin was so large that the recount won’t change the outcome. Nine of the state’s 105 counties are ...
A Lawrence man has been charged in Douglas County District Court with aggravated assault and criminal discharge of a weapon after allegedly firing a gun at a residence. The man, Onyema Lawrence Anyanwu, 34, is facing one felony count of discharging a firearm at a dwelling with a person inside ...
The director of KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities has retired from the university, and the leader of KU’s science fiction center has been appointed as the interim director of the humanities center. Richard Godbeer has retired from the Hall Center director position and his other KU ...
A University of Kansas alumnus and trustee of the KU Endowment Association is one of three new members appointed to the Kansas Board of Regents by Gov. Laura Kelly on Tuesday. John B. Dicus — chairman, CEO and president of Topeka-based Capitol Federal Savings — is among the appointees, ...
Douglas County leaders will decide this week whether to contribute toward a local internet provider’s bid at improving broadband internet access in two rural areas of the county. Internet provider Midco is asking the Douglas County Commission to provide $5,000 in support of a grant proposal ...
The City of Lawrence will participate in a nationwide initiative to monitor infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and monkeypox in wastewater, the city announced this week. The study will measure viral genetic material in wastewater at the Kansas River Wastewater Treatment Plant as part of the ...
