The Lawrence school district has approved a fundraising effort for a mural to be painted in the Billy Mills Middle School commons. The mural is to help commemorate the renaming of South Middle School for Mills, the former Haskell Institute and University of Kansas student and 1964 Olympic ...
The Lawrence Lions Alumni Association will induct three LHS alumni into the school's Hall of Honor this year. Those inductees include a pioneer in computer graphics, a leader in international public health initiatives and a public relations executive. The ceremony is slated for 2 p.m. Sunday ...
Have you ever wondered what it looked and felt like to live in Lawrence in the town's early days? Soon, visitors to the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St., will be able to do just that. The museum is in the process of developing a third-floor exhibit focused on what daily life ...
The Lawrence school board approved a $43.5 million bond sale Monday, for an interest rate to the district of 3.45 percent. David Arteberry, of the district bond consulting firm George K. Baum, said the low bidder for the $43.5 million in 20-year bonds offered at noon Monday was Mesirow ...
The sentencing date for a woman convicted of murdering a baby at a Eudora day care has been pushed back again, this time until mid-January — nearly six months after the jury’s decision. Her attorneys’ elaborate motion for a new trial and problems finding available days on the court’s ...
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — A former Kansas priest still holds medical licenses in Kansas and Missouri despite being defrocked this year after the Archdiocese of Kansas City determined that he abused three minors decades ago. The Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts is investigating ...
Though Jayhawks and Tar Heels aren’t typically thought of as allies, the cities of Lawrence and Chapel Hill, N.C., are teaming up this week. A group of 80 people, including Chapel Hill elected officials, business owners, nonprofit directors and university officials, arrived in Lawrence on ...
TOPEKA — Republican Secretary of State and candidate for Kansas governor Kris Kobach will team up with current Gov. Jeff Colyer for a $15,000-a-person pheasant hunt in October to raise money for the state Republican Party. The Kansas City Star reports that Colyer and Lt. Gov. Tracey Mann are ...
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 185 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated at 4:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24. TOPEKA — State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, R-Leavenworth, said Monday that he is resigning from the Kansas Senate. Fitzgerald, a retired Army officer who is serving his second term in the Senate and who has made headlines with some controversial ...
In an effort to help with the rising cost of higher education, the Kansas Board of Regents has a plan to funnel up to $50 million in new financial aid dollars to Kansas students. But it is going to require some help from both state legislators and the private sector. As part of its budget ...
I have had health professionals for years tell me my body is perfectly suited for CrossFit training — cross off ice cream, cross off candy, cross off Doritos ... Actually, that’s not quite how CrossFit training works. But it has become a growing fitness trend, and there is a new business ...
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Kansas' troubled child welfare system was beginning to make progress after months of issues when rape allegations were made public last week involving a teen in the state's custody. A 13-year-old was allegedly raped by a young man who was also in the state's care while at ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet later this week with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the White House said Monday amid indications that Rosenstein was about to lose his job. The meeting will be Thursday, said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. That's the ...
Police arrested a 30-year-old Lawrence woman who, they say, attacked another woman while officers were on the scene and then continued fighting after arriving at the hospital. Officers were dispatched about 8:50 a.m. Saturday to a disturbance with weapons in the 1100 block of Tennessee ...
Lawrence residents will soon have a new outdoor gathering place on the southwest side of town. The three Lawrence Rotary clubs along with the Lawrence Home Builders Association and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department on Monday began building a new gathering shelter in the Lawrence ...
The timing was perfect when Laura Hobson Herlihy received a call in early July to work as a court interpreter for immigrants speaking the Miskitu language. For the past decade, the cultural anthropologist’s summers had been spent taking graduate students to the Nicaraguan rainforest to learn ...
TOPEKA – Democrat Laura Kelly says that if she is elected governor, she will call for reviving an economic development program that was once hailed as a promising innovation in state government but that later became the center of controversy and was eventually sold off in 2016. That program, ...
Minutes after the Aug. 29 contract negotiations between the Lawrence school district and the Lawrence Education Association broke down, chief union negotiator David Reber told the approximately 200 teachers who had attended the meeting that, under state law, they could not strike. But he added ...
Marriages Ariele K. Erwine, 38, Lawrence, and Ethan Fowler, 40, Lawrence. Andrew Baker, 34, Fairview, Texas, and Meredith West, 31, Fairview, Texas. Cody Allen Nieder, 24, Baldwin City, and Shauncee Lea Alumbaugh, 27, Baldwin City. Dyana Lynn Morgan, 61, Holton, and Stacey Wyant, 62, ...