Lawrence police suspect that a teenager was intoxicated when she crashed her car on Iowa Street Monday night, closing down one of the city's main thoroughfares for an hour as officers worked the scene. Police said in a social media post Tuesday that the 17-year-old driver was speeding north ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, giving her a path to become the first Native American woman in the U.S. elected to the office. Under President Joe Biden, Haaland championed public lands conservation ...
A Douglas County judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 18 months of probation for distribution of fentanyl, pursuant to a plea agreement, and she commended him for being an exemplary defendant while awaiting disposition of his case. Judge Amy Hanley made a point to read aloud a complimentary ...
SEATTLE (AP) — A portion of one of the most ambitious ocean monitoring networks ever built will go dark this month when scientists board a research vessel and motor off the Oregon coast to pull a research buoy from deep out of the Pacific. The buoy 80 meters (260 feet) below the water's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president, the Justice Department's top official said Tuesday in retreating from a program that faced setbacks in the courts and a fierce political backlash ...
After a Lawrence-based nonprofit received a $250,000 grant from the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, its leader said the donation will make a big difference to the students it supports. The nonprofit, SparkWheel, announced it was one of the 27 organizations worldwide that received support ...
