Eastern Lawrence is getting a new doctor’s office that will be run by Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The hospital has announced plans for LMH Health East Heights Family Care to open inside the Independence Inc. building near 20th Street and Haskell Avenue. The facility will have a family ...
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 266 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
TOPEKA — State universities in Kansas would see an $85 million funding increase over the next two years under a budget proposal that the Kansas Board of Regents approved on Thursday. Now university leaders will have to wait and see whether state legislators will approve the request. “Our ...
Cheyenne Hansen-Marlow did not know what to say Thursday morning. Superintendent Anthony Lewis and other Lawrence school district administrators surprised Hansen-Marlow, a school psychologist for Schwegler Elementary School, during school on Thursday, awarding her as the elementary-level ...
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into alleged criminal activity by Baldwin City Police Department personnel, a KBI spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. Their investigation began shortly before Police Chief Greg Neis resigned suddenly on Tuesday, months before his previously planned ...
TOPEKA — A committee formed at the direction of the Kansas Supreme Court has made 18 recommendations to improve the bond system in municipal courts. Brenda Stoss, municipal court judge from Salina and New Cambria, led the committee. She said municipal courts should be able to consider ...
Autumn weather in the Lawrence area is on its way. With an overnight cold front and a possible thunderstorm, temperatures in the area are expected to drop from the low 90s to the mid 70s on Friday, said Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. “The greatest ...
Today, Sept. 20 Free State Festival: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. (unless otherwise noted). Partner Event: Citizen Jane:Battle for the City, 7-9 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. Film: Meow Wolf: Origin Story, 8-10 p.m. Don't Miss: League of Women Voters Hot Topic: ...
The Lawrence Community Shelter will have to cut services to stay within its budget and is looking to its government and nonprofit partners to help determine how that should be done, shelter board members told community leaders Wednesday. At a joint meeting of the Douglas County Commission, ...
Lawrence mayor Stuart Boley's proposal to explore merging the city and county governments didn't go over well with Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday, but the county leaders said they were willing to review existing shared funding agreements with the city. The discussion occurred at a ...
Updated story - KBI investigating alleged criminal activity within Baldwin City Police Department Baldwin City Police Chief Greg Neis has resigned from the post he has held for the past nine years, a Baldwin City councilman said Wednesday. Councilman Tony Brown said the City Council ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents approved a pay raise on Wednesday for University of Kansas graduate teaching assistants, effective immediately. KU leaders and the union that represents the approximately 1,100 graduate teaching assistants at KU had spent the last several months in ...
The story that was the focus of many a book club in the early 1990s will soon take the stage in Lawrence. “The Bridges of Madison County” — originally released as a novel in 1992 and as a film in 1995 — makes its way to Lawrence in musical form for the first time this weekend, said ...
A number of agencies will participate in an emergency exercise Thursday morning at Lawrence Municipal Airport. The exercise, scheduled from 8:45 a.m. to noon, will simulate a transportation-related release of hazardous materials at the airport in North Lawrence, according to a press release ...
Engineers with the Kansas Department of Transportation next month will present to the Douglas County Commission proposals for improving safety at five at-grade intersections on the west leg of Kansas Highway 10. KDOT is currently reviewing accident and speed statistics for the K-10 ...
This post was update at 5:05 p.m. on Sept. 19, 2018 On May 5, Ken Wagner stood on the lot of a defunct farm implement dealership while he watched a fire on the other side of 23rd Street consume his successful John Deere dealership. It already was clear the Saturday afternoon fire was going to ...
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 227 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
TOPEKA – In the six weeks since Republican candidate Steve Watkins won the 2nd District congressional primary, he has not released a single TV ad or issued any public statements to the media. And with only 48 days left before the Nov. 6 election, public records on file with Topeka-area TV ...
A third man charged with aggravated robbery and other crimes from a February home-invasion spree is now in custody at the Douglas County Jail. One of the suspects reportedly robbed people in two apartments while wearing a creepy, smiling mask like one from the horror movie “The Purge,” ...