For city leaders, settling a lawsuit over the former Riverfront Mall building isn’t just about ending a legal fight – it’s also a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to do something new in downtown Lawrence. That’s what Vice Mayor Mike Courtney said Tuesday before city commissioners ...
Soon, Lawrence city commissioners will have new rules for how they hear from the public – and, Mayor Brad Finkeldei hopes, new standards for “how we want to interact with each other.” At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved a new meeting order that, ...
During Rodney Marshall's police-station confession to fatally shooting two Lawrence men, he took a break to call his mother in California. "It's been a weird week, Mom," he says, in a 2022 video seen by jurors Tuesday at his double-murder trial. "I got into some legal trouble out here in ...
One of Lawrence’s longtime manufacturers, garage door company Amarr, will be getting some help from the city to purchase its building and keep operating in Lawrence. At its meeting on Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Amber Sellers absent, to issue up to $35 ...
The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced tough questions Tuesday from Republican and Democratic lawmakers about the Trump administration's end game for the Iran war, the conflict's rising $29 billion cost and its impact on diminishing U.S. weapons stockpiles. While the ...
