WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive. The Republican president’s ...
TOPEKA — When Giulia Bonaminio was treated for cancer by her students at the University of Kansas Medical Center, she didn’t care about their grades. “As a patient, what mattered most to me wasn’t a grade on a transcript but whether they demonstrated sound clinical judgment, clear ...
What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do. Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living ...
While the FIFA 2026 World Cup is still months away, speculation on what teams could be visiting the greater Kansas City area has increased with the official base camps for national teams are expected to be announced soon. Soccer powerhouses Argentina, England and the Netherlands — and their ...
With tables and chairs arriving this week, Q39 barbecue owner Kelly Magee is reasonably confident in saying that the restaurant’s new downtown Lawrence location will have its grand opening on March 10. That’s something, given that confidence isn’t an emotion that has been overflowing ...
A man who had originally been charged with distributing a drug that caused a 39-year-old Lawrence man's death pleaded no contest on Friday to the lesser crime of simple distribution of fentanyl. Harlan Epps had been charged in the overdose death of Justin Jones, who died in his home on June 5, ...
