Topeka — Republicans in the Kansas House on Thursday outlined a plan aimed at revitalizing rural areas, helping people to buy their first homes and lowering income taxes for seniors. GOP leaders said they will pursue five bills. They announced that they have launched a new website and ...
Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. Last updated: 5:53 a.m. Friday • McLouth public school district USD 342 will be closed. • The University of Kansas Lawrence and Edwards campuses will delay opening until 9 a.m.
Flanking the new broadcasting space in the University of Kansas’ Stauffer-Flint Hall are two pillars that are over a century old. “These pillars are 120 years old. The studio is about 10 minutes old,” said KU School of Journalism dean Ann Brill on Thursday at the reopening ceremony for ...
Topeka — Opposition from top Republican lawmakers in Kansas appears to have doomed Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan to tax streaming services, e-books, and movie and music downloads like most other states do. Kelly and fellow Democrats pitch it as basic fairness. Consumers who buy or ...
News and notes from around the downtown area: • I’ve got a garage full of vehicles from Detroit, and soon it seems that I could have a belly full of pizza that is inspired by the city too. Look for a new “Detroit-style” pizza restaurant to open on Ninth Street. Longtime Lawrence ...
Another building option could be opened up to hundreds of homeowners in eastern Lawrence, but some residents in those neighborhoods say the new option could be detrimental. As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission initiated a code change ...
Story updated at 6:05 p.m. Thursday: A Lawrence man is facing charges of aggravated criminal sodomy against two children, court records show. Bryon Brouhard, 21, was arrested at the same address listed as his home on a probable cause warrant just after 8 p.m. Wednesday, Douglas County Jail ...
Story updated at 2:52 p.m. Thursday: A 31-year-old Topeka man has been charged in connection with a 2017 shooting in south-central Lawrence. David Dean Harris was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with attempted first-degree murder. The charges are connected to a May 28, ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 141 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time ...
A locally made film about immigration has won an award at the 2020 Borrego Springs Film Festival in Southern California. The film, “Strangers in Town,” co-directed by Lawrence resident Stephen Lerner and Reuben Aaronson of Los Angeles, won the People’s Choice Documentary award. Lerner ...
Six vehicles have been stolen in Eudora within the span of a month, according to a news release from the Eudora Police Department. The department said in a post on its Facebook page Jan. 16 that all six stolen vehicles had the keys inside of them at the time of the thefts. Five of the six ...
A man and a teenager from Rantoul were both killed in a car accident Wednesday in Franklin County, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol crash report. James Gregory Tracy, 67, and Harry Ray Mock Jr., 14, were eastbound on Kansas Highway 68 about 8 miles east of Ottawa in a Volkswagen Passat ...
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested on suspicion of two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy Wednesday evening, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. Jail records indicate the man was arrested at the same address listed as his home on a probable cause warrant just after 8 p.m. ...
Douglas County may have the legal authority to use a sales tax approved by voters in 1994 to finance a nearly $30 million expansion of its jail, but that doesn't mean it's ethical, community activists argued on Wednesday. Joanna Harader, a member of the faith-based social activist group ...
Topeka — Kansas’ high court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit over funding for the state’s court system filed by six trial-court judges against the Republican-controlled Legislature. The state Supreme Court said in a short order signed by Chief Justice Marla Luckert that it’s ...
After Tuesday night’s basketball brawl, the University of Kansas student body president expressed concern over the pattern of “violence” surrounding the program and the Board of Regents chair suggested he would be discussing the matter with university CEOs. KU's chancellor, however, said ...
Wichita — An insurance company must reimburse a Kansas man for the personal care his wife provided after he was injured in an automobile accident, the state Supreme Court ruled in rejecting that spouses are required to provide such support without compensation. The decision handed down ...
A NOTE FROM EDITOR CHAD LAWHORN: Lawrence seems to love restaurants. They’ve become a part of our identity, in some ways, and certainly a major part of our entertainment scene. With that in mind, we wanted to do something that gave readers a bit more of an extended look at Lawrence restaurant ...
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. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 150 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time ...
For 50 years, there has been a Border Bandido on the loose in Lawrence. I can attest because it has stolen at least three notches on my belt that I’ll never get back. Of course, I’m talking about the Mexican restaurant on 23rd Street. Soon, though, it will be just a memory. The ...
