There’s the smell of a national championship in the air in Lawrence. Yes, the KU men’s basketball team has been making the nets pop a bit more regularly, but the national championship vibe comes from an even more reliable activity in Lawrence — the popping of a cold Budweiser. ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday watched a 7-second video of a man slamming a handgun into the side of another man’s head and the gun instantly — and loudly — discharging. The pistol’s firing at such close range left burn marks on the man’s face, his former girlfriend told the ...
The year that Lamonte McIntyre was freed after 23 years behind bars, reporter and lawyer Rick Tulsky heard about the case and knew he had to learn more. McIntyre, as the Associated Press has reported, was convicted in a 1994 double homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, even though no physical ...
Currently, the Panasonic plant on Kansas Highway 10 in De Soto has less than half of its previously promised target of 4,000 employees, but company officials will be holding a hiring fair this week and hope to hire “several hundred” more skilled machine technicians over the next three ...
A dispute over whether a Lawrence middle school student was the victim of sexual harassment by a teacher — and whether the district properly investigated the allegations — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit. An attorney for Douglas County resident James Killian has filed a lawsuit ...
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center has received a $25,000 donation to help it build a new Youth Recovery Center, and designs for the facility at Clinton Parkway and Kasold Drive are progressing. Leaders of Bert Nash and other stakeholders gathered Monday morning for the announcement ...
