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. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday and includes 219 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Dot Nary uses a powered wheelchair, but she wasn’t thinking of herself when she began working on a guide for making homes more accessible for those with mobility issues. Nary was thinking of her 88-year-old friend who had gone from using a walker to a power chair. She no longer could get ...
Today, Aug. 20 Toddler Storytime (ages 2+), 10:30-11 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Kaw Valley Bridge Club: Open Pairs, 12:30 p.m., 1025 N. Third St., Suite 120. Scrabble Club, 1-4 p.m., Clinton Place Apartments, 2125 Clinton Place. Caregiver Support Group, 2:15 p.m., ...
It is “no big deal” that the Senior Resource Center for Douglas County will stop delivering meals to the homes of county seniors at the end of the year, the head of the agency says. That assessment isn’t a dismissal of the needs of the roughly 125 seniors who receive the meals, but an ...
Murders more than quadrupled last year in Douglas County, according to newly released crime statistics. Douglas County counted nine murders in 2017, compared with two in 2016, according to statistics released Friday by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Three other categories of crimes ...
Two local organizations are partnering to help previously homeless families have a better experience renting. Family Promise of Lawrence and the Lawrence Board of Realtors have launched a new pilot program, "Keys to Good Tenancy," which provides participants information about assessing ...
• Kasold Drive from Sixth Street to Bob Billings Parkway is currently undergoing a reconstruction project. The project has started with the reconstruction of the intersection at Kasold Drive and Bob Billings Parkway. Traffic on Bob Billings Parkway will be reduced to a single eastbound and ...
NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-area school district that garnered national attention when a transgender student was crowned homecoming queen in 2015 has installed gender-neutral restrooms at two new elementary schools and in some existing locations. The individual bathroom stalls at ...
Like the medical doctor he is, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod offered some health advice for the students attending the university's opening convocation. “The brain works better after exercise,” Girod said during Sunday's ceremony at the Lied Center, adding that physical ...
TOPEKA — A professor in Kansas says that poet Langston Hughes may have been born a year earlier that what's on record. Hughes is commonly thought to have been born in 1902, spending his childhood in Topeka and Lawrence, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. But Washburn University ...
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. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday and includes 295 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The leader of Lawrence’s community mental health center would like to bring in a company to conduct an external evaluation or survey of staff. Amid some elevated concerns about public perception after seven specialized therapists resigned en masse, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center ...
Today, Aug. 19 AB’s Crepes and Buffet, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., VFW Post 852, 1801 Massachusetts St. Family Yoga @ Your Library, 1-2 p.m., Auditorium, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Story Time with Jazzy Gene, 1:30-2 p.m., The Toy Store, 936 Massachusetts St. Bead Society, 2-6 p.m., ...
TOPEKA — With independent candidate Greg Orman now officially in the race for governor in Kansas, Republicans and Democrats alike are scrambling to figure out how he affects the race. Orman, 49, an Olathe businessman, first made political news in Kansas in 2014 when he ran as an independent ...
What it could look like when Lawrence residents live closer together is becoming clearer. Along with taller buildings, there might be row houses, accessory dwelling units, cluster housing and smaller single-family homes. The steering committee that has been revising the Lawrence-Douglas ...
The 2019 budget the Douglas County Commission approved this month will require residents to pay more when using Treasurer's Office satellite sites, securing building or zoning permits or renting a building at the fairgrounds. The only fee increase that currently has a dollar amount attached to ...
TOPEKA — The state is promoting a campaign to reduce the number of stillborn deaths in Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday it is partnering with Count the Kicks, a stillbirth prevention public health campaign. Kansas officials say the state records an ...
At a memorial Saturday for one of his predecessors, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Delbert Shankel earned the trust of the university community through the integrity he brought to the many positions he held during his 50 years on campus. “His superpower was his ...
Recent rainfall hasn't done much to ease dry conditions in Douglas County, and more dry weather is ahead over the next couple of months, weather and climate monitoring agencies say. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration currently ranks Douglas County's drought condition as ...
A website for the new DBT Center of Lawrence and Kansas City went live Friday afternoon, and it lists the two locations that will soon house the business. Several therapists who recently resigned en masse from the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program at Bert Nash Community Mental Health ...