A Douglas County jury heard tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a 9-month-old boy who died at a Eudora day care center nearly two years ago. Kaylen Ortiz, the mother of Oliver Ortiz, cried on the witness stand as she recounted the phone call she received around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 29, ...
The Douglas County Commission will further consider Wednesday three options for placing a ballot question before voters in November to fund a behavioral health campus. Commissioners agreed last week to schedule the meeting for 6 p.m. to give more residents an opportunity to attend and voice ...
With 12,000 documented rides and more than 5,000 miles ridden, the University of Kansas is celebrating a successful rollout of its fledgling bike-share service. KU’s Center for Sustainability released those numbers — and a few other interesting figures on the new program — earlier this ...
I frequently speculate about tools. (Surely these wire cutters are insulated against electrical shock.) Well, I actually can report on some tool speculation that has turned out better. Over the past couple months I’ve speculated that the tool retailer Harbor Freight was coming to Lawrence, ...
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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 190 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated 5:27 p.m. July 17, 2018: TOPEKA — Kansas is distributing $5 million in state grants to beef up security and improve safety at schools in more than 150 districts. The state Department of Education began distributing the grants Monday for new doors, windows, security cameras, ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says President Donald Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "missed opportunity" to press for "better behavior" from Russia. Moran said during a Fox News interview Tuesday that the summit in Helsinki gave Trump a chance to publicly show ...
Barbara Higgins-Dover is the descendant of river royalty. Her grandfather fished commercially on the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the early 20th century, a time when commercial fishing was illegal in Kansas. Higgins-Dover hopes to honor that history at the Living River Festival, which she is ...
A man and a woman who fled Lawrence police overnight crashed on Kansas Highway 10 but were able to get out of their vehicle and escape on foot. The chase began about 2:55 a.m., when a Lawrence police officer tried to pull over a black passenger vehicle for a stop sign violation at 13th Street ...
First, Tommy J. May pistol-whipped Marzetta Yarbrough on the head twice, she told police. Next he told her, “Now I’m going to finish you.” Then May allegedly shot her in the face. May, 58, is charged with attempted murder in the July 2 double shooting that injured Yarbrough and a man ...
Just call him “Mr. Jayhawk.” That’s how Heath Peterson describes former two-time University of Kansas Chancellor Delbert “Del” Shankel, who died Thursday, July 12, at age 90. It was Shankel who convinced KU Alumni Association leadership to promote Peterson, then a part-time ...
TOPEKA — Kansas conservative firebrand Kris Kobach, who appears in parades riding a jeep with a replica machine gun mounted on back, failed Monday to land the coveted endorsement from the National Rifle Association in the Republican primary race for governor. Instead, it went to Gov. Jeff ...
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 173 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Three civil liberties groups have come together to demand the University of Kansas return a controversial artwork to its original display on the KU campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released a statement Monday asking that “Untitled (Flag 2)” be restored to its ...
HELSINKI — Standing next to Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' conclusions that Moscow was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to Trump's benefit and seemed to accept Putin's insistence that Russia's hands were ...
Officials with Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and Douglas County say a transitional group home planned for the proposed behavioral health campus is moving forward after two recent decisions. The transitional group home was to be part of an $11 million behavioral health campus funded ...
The years-long effort to complete the city’s trail system could be getting a boost. At its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission will consider allocating $100,000 in next year’s budget for design of the downtown segment of the Lawrence Loop, with plans for construction to take ...
TOPEKA — Republicans running in the 2nd District congressional race have put more money into their own campaigns, either in the form of loans or direct contributions, than they have raised through contributions. Federal campaign finance reports that detail total fundraising through June 30 ...
TOPEKA — No grand jury will be called in Douglas County to investigate alleged mishandling of voter registrations in Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office, at least until the Kansas Supreme Court decides whether it will review the case. Steven Davis, a Democratic candidate running ...
Story updated at 5:35 p.m. Monday, July 16, 2018. The murder trial of a woman accused of killing a baby she cared for at a Eudora home day care opened Monday with jury selection. The trial for Carrody M. Buchhorn, 44, of Eudora, is scheduled to last a week and a half, running through July 25 ...