A man was charged during a first appearance in court Friday in connection with an August shooting that critically injured a 6-year-old boy. Rashun B. Lewis, 27, is charged with aggravated endangering a child, a low-level felony. He appeared in Douglas County District Court Friday with ...
The pandemic has delayed much this year, but leaders at LMH Health have decided it should speed up one thing — pay raises at the hospital. At a special meeting Thursday evening, LMH’s board of trustees approved a 2.5% pay increase for hospital employees for 2021. But instead of waiting ...
Former University of Kansas basketball player Silvio De Sousa was formally charged with aggravated battery during a brief first appearance in court Friday. De Sousa appeared with counsel Hatem Chahine on a summons for the midlevel-severity felony. The probable cause affidavit supporting the ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
Douglas County residents soon may be asked to pay a new property tax to support a Lawrence-based technical school. Kevin Kelley, CEO of the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center, told the Journal-World on Friday that the school wants to receive permission from the Kansas Legislature to ask ...
TOPEKA — Kansas considers meatpacking plant workers and grocery store employees essential workers, putting them just behind health care workers and nursing home residents for coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday. The Democratic governor also said members of the ...
Updated at 2:35 p.m. Friday Douglas County, starting Monday, will adopt a 10-day quarantine period for asymptomatic close contacts of people with COVID-19, according to a news release from Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The move came Friday after the Kansas Department of Health and ...
Years ago, tourism leaders used to call every weekend that featured a home KU football game a million-dollar weekend. I don’t know what impact price inflation and fan deflation have had on that figure, but the point is still the same: The local economy gets a big-dollar boost by spending from ...
An early 1900s farmhouse on a 10-acre property is the perfect combination for a Eudora couple with an eye for decorating and a love of nature. Jamie and Adam Jones had been looking to move to a more rural part of Douglas County, and in October 2019 they settled into their home at 2158 North ...
The city of Lawrence has earned a high “A” for LGBTQ inclusivity in annual rankings by the Human Rights Campaign, in large part because of score improvements in the category of law enforcement. Lawrence scored 98 out of 100 possible points on the 2020 Municipal Equality Index, or MEI, ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two northeast Kansas counties on Thursday rejected at least part of the new federal and state guidelines for shortening the time people are quarantined after they're possibly exposed to COVID-19. New guidance Wednesday from the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
The Lawrence school board on Thursday formally adopted criteria for guidance on how to conduct school amid the coronavirus pandemic, adding more criteria to consider than local health officials have previously. The board’s criteria is based on the Kansas State Department of Education’s ...
Ashley Davis and her band spent five months this spring and summer collaborating on an album — but they all worked on it from their own homes. “It was kind of like a conveyor belt process,” Davis said. One band member would send their part to another, and then the next member would add ...
Dozens of Kansas nursing homes still wait three days to a week for overwhelmed labs to tell them if their residents have COVID-19. As of mid-November, 30 facilities had less than a week’s worth of N95 masks on hand. Another 100-plus didn’t have enough nurses. Nine months into a pandemic ...
Gov. Laura Kelly launched a new COVID-19 public health campaign and testing website on Thursday, according to a news release from her office. The campaign, called "Stop the Spread. It's Up to Us, Kansas," will share the importance of getting tested, wearing masks and social distancing this ...
Almost a year after pleading guilty in two cases stemming from thefts of grease, a man has been sentenced to probation, and he told the judge he’s going to turn his life around. Byron P. Aston, 30, previously of Springfield, Mo., was charged Feb. 27, 2019, with felony theft for allegedly ...
A judge sentenced a man to two years of probation Thursday in what began as a rape case, and she told the man to stop saying the victim was lying, as he has been convicted of a felony. Evan P. Hiesberger, 23, was initially charged with rape of a victim overcome by force or fear, a severe ...
TOPEKA — Former Kansas Supreme Court Justice Tyler Lockett died after contracting COVID-19, officials said Wednesday. Lockett, 87, died Saturday. He was appointed to the state’s highest court in 1983 by Democratic Gov. John Carlin, and the justice retired in 2003. He had been a district ...
If this Saturday you see a Wells Fargo stagecoach driving down Massachusetts Street, you really won’t need to start wondering what was in that eggnog you just drank. Your eyes won’t be playing tricks on you. It will just be a small bit of Christmas cheer on a day that usually has a huge ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity up to 6 a.m. on the date listed and extending back to 6 a.m. on the previous day. Each listing includes a date, time and general ...
