Currently, 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease; however, the disease is more prevalent among African Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Because of that discrepancy, the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center has launched an outreach project ...
Rep. Barbara Ballard’s hero, or “shero,” as she specified, is Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress. The late Chisholm, elected in 1968 to represent New York's 12th Congressional District, was known for calling service “the rent we pay for the privilege of living ...
Although several programs meant to provide alternatives to incarceration and decrease the number of inmates in the Douglas County Jail have garnered some positive results, county officials say the jail still needs to be expanded to address overcrowding. Since those programs — including ...
As the year comes to a close, we spend time reflecting, celebrating and setting our goals for the new year to come. This year, we’re entering into a new decade as well. Almost half of Americans will make a New Year’s resolution for themselves. This can be anything from spending less time ...
The Senior Resource Center for Douglas County is introducing transportation services in Eudora and Lecompton and is seeking volunteers to help with some of them. Megan Poindexter, executive director of the Senior Resource Center, said the agency has made a van available in Eudora to provide ...
As temperatures drop and forecasts call for snow, several individuals and organizations have come together to provide a temporary overnight shelter for the homeless. The Lawrence Community Shelter has been operating at a reduced capacity because of financial issues, and some homeless people ...
Story updated at 12:40 p.m. Saturday: A Lawrence man was arrested late Friday in connection with a collision that killed a 24-year-old mother of two, law enforcement records indicate. Eric Lee Spaeth, 43, faces pending charges of attempted second-degree murder for allegedly killing ...
TOPEKA - A freshman Kansas congressman might have to correct his voter registration a second time after changing it earlier this month while local authorities investigated him for previously listing a UPS Inc. store as his home. The Kansas City Star reports that Republican Rep. Steve Watkins ...
A Lawrence man who reportedly told police he viewed child pornography not for arousal but “as a form of art” was sentenced Friday to 32 months — two years and eight months — in prison. Charles R. Tingler Jr., 46, was initially charged Sept. 17 with two counts of sexual exploitation of ...
A man who was convicted of aggravated assault for aiming a gun at another driver on Sixth Street and then holing up in an apartment was sentenced to probation Friday. Chandler A. Grey, 27, must serve 24 months of probation, according to Dorothy Kliem, trial assistant for the Douglas County ...
Jurors may have learned a thing or two from the series of forensic experts who testified during a trial for Tommy May on Friday. May, 60, of Lawrence, is charged with a slew of felonies stemming from incidents prosecutors allege happened within a span of about an hour on July 2, 2018. ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran said Friday that he hasn't decided how he would vote on removing President Donald Trump from office but followed those comments up by criticizing the Democratic-led House's impeachment process. Moran's statement declared that he does not support ...
Because of a staff shortage, city bus drivers have spent weeks putting in mandatory overtime behind the wheel. Local union leader Justin Priest, who is president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1754, said drivers have had to work a mandatory extra shift for more than a month, typically ...
An anonymous donor will be contributing up to $10,000 to the Lawrence Public Library, promising to provide a dollar-for-dollar match to the library’s long-term endowment for every dollar the community provides for immediate library needs. The idea for the donation came from the upcoming ...
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. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 190 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Two recently released reports have some Kansas policymakers on edge about the health of Kansans and adamant that expanding Medicaid coverage will help. One report showed that, since 1990, Kansas’ health ranking has fallen more than that of any other state. The other showed that, in a ...
A popular downtown Lawrence restaurant was temporarily forced to close earlier this week for a cockroach infestation. The Mad Greek, 907 Massachusetts St., closed Monday after a state health code inspector found 30 live roaches in various locations between the restaurant’s basement and ...
I can tell you from personal experience that if you get close enough to a pig, you gain greater appreciation for a bar of soap. So, maybe there is some symbolic synergy with the Bourgeois Pig’s new next-door neighbor in downtown Lawrence — a handmade soap company. Bodytruth Soap ...
Kansas City, Kan. — One of two men who is accused of opening fire inside a crowded bar in Kansas City, Kan., killing four people and wounding five others, has been captured in Mexico, authorities said Thursday. Authorities have been searching for Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, since the ...
Wichita — Attorneys for the parents of a 19-year-old football player who died of heatstroke on the first day of practice at a Kansas community college said Thursday that negotiations with the school remain on track, downplaying the significance of a decision by trustees to deny claims ...
