In part because of rising employee health insurance costs, the Lawrence Public Library’s Board of Trustees has approved a 2027 budget that would raise its mill levy from 4.1 to 4.5 — the maximum mill levy it can approve under city ordinance. The operating budget, which the trustees ...
An 18-year-old Basehor man has been charged with raping a child Saturday in Lawrence. The man, Trevion Mikel Wilson, was arrested shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday and was charged Monday morning with one count of raping a child under the age of 14, an off-grid felony punishable by life in prison ...
A 21-year-old Lawrence man was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars from the Lawrence grocery store that employed him. The man, Ethan Cade Waters, was taken into custody after the store asset manager at the Dillons at 3000 W. Sixth St. informed the police about an ...
Douglas County Public Works has closed a section of North 1400 Road starting on Monday for a bridge replacement project. The closed area on North 1400 Road is between East 2300 Road and East 2400 Road, east of Eudora and near the Johnson County line. Construction is expected to last four ...
The Watkins Museum of History will open a new temporary exhibition that will feature photography from two historic weather events that impacted Lawrence. The museum announced in a press release Monday the new exhibition, called “Lawrence in the Path of Destruction,” will open Tuesday. The ...
Lawrence's annual "wheeled art" parade, Art Tougeau, is inviting everyone on Saturday to bring anything that rolls – whether that's a skateboard, a car or something weirder. Art Tougeau started in 1997, and it's been a way to celebrate "creativity and ingenuity with some good, clean fun ...
