A bench trial about the City of Lawrence's housing nondiscrimination ordinance was canceled this month, and the city and the group of landlords who sued over the protections are now seeking a resolution without a full trial.
The case centers on changes that the city made to its ...
The City of Lawrence’s standing as the first city in Kansas to ban single-use plastic bags isn’t likely to change after Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill that would have prohibited local governments from imposing similar restrictions earlier this month.
As the Journal-World has reported, an ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' governor is blocking an attempt by Republican legislators to give the state's National Guard a “border mission" of helping Texas in its partisan fight with the Biden administration over illegal immigration.
Top Republicans in the Kansas House were considering Thursday ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who sped through a red light in Kansas City and crashed into a patrol car has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of an officer and a bystander.
Jerron Lightfoot, 20, of Tonganoxie, Kansas, said he was “truly sorry and ...
Updated at 4:11 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2024
A Douglas County jury on Thursday acquitted a transient man of murdering a blind Lawrence resident last summer in downtown Lawrence.
The defendant, Chadwick Potter, 35, had faced a second-degree murder charge in the bludgeoning death of David ...
A 37-year old Lawrence man was killed in a Wednesday afternoon vehicle crash near the intersection of 31st and Louisiana streets in Lawrence, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has announced.
Michael Landsness died from injuries that resulted from a crash involving his 2008 Kia Sportage ...