Topeka ? A 60-bed unit within the Osawatomie State Hospital passed a federal inspection this week "with flying colors," state officials said, putting the hospital on a path toward recertification by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services."We have been waiting for this for a long time," ...
Lawrence city commissioners agreed to send a letter with condolences and words of support to the mayor of Charlottesville, Va., following violent protests over the weekend. “I wish to send thoughts and condolences on behalf of the City of Lawrence, Kansas as your community heals from the ...
After some discussion about an uncommon part of the request, the Lawrence City Commission ultimately voted to accept the incentives application for a downtown grocery and apartment project. Apart from Mayor Leslie Soden, who dissented, commissioners voted at their Tuesday meeting that the city ...
In a move intended to reassure homeowners in a recently created benefit district, the Baldwin City Council approved a resolution Tuesday that puts an upper lid on the assessment asked of those residents.The latest resolution states the assessment asked of homeowners in a benefit district to ...
Topeka ? Public safety agencies in Kansas will soon have unprecedented ability to communicate with one another during large events like wildfires, tornadoes and other natural disasters.Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed letters officially opting the state into a federally funded service known ...
Lawrence police are investigating a report of a man masturbating outside a resident's apartment window.About 1:15 a.m. Tuesday officers were dispatched to the 1100 block of Louisiana Street. A witness at the scene said she had heard a rustling sound outside her apartment and that when she ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Department for Children and Families said Tuesday that a statewide computer outage that struck the agency over the weekend has been resolved and that its systems were up and running again."Happy to report, DCF computer systems are back up and running after an OITS outage. We ...
Part of the Lawrence school district’s larger-than-expected tax increase will be used to make an approximately $1.1 million debt payment that it isn’t required to make this year. The $1.1 million in funds instead could be used to lower the district’s property tax rate, but the ...
The father and child who died in Douglas County Sunday — along with the child's mother — were shot to death, and the father is the suspected killer, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office announced in a news release Tuesday morning, which was also the first time the office reported the names ...
Topeka ? Lawrence Democrat Paul Davis officially kicked off his campaign for the 2nd District congressional seat in Kansas, using a familiar theme in national politics by saying he wants to change the political culture in Washington."Our political system is fundamentally broken," Davis told a ...
The Eudora City Commission was presented an electrical rate study Monday that would increase the monthly rates in line with the 3 percent hike built into the city’s 2018 budget.The commission first approved the city’s $16.85 million 2018 budget, which maintains the 39.501 mill levy of the ...
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Former Lawrence mayor Jeremy Farmer was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in federal prison for stealing money from a food bank he once led. He was also ordered to pay more than $81,000 in restitution and faces two years of supervised release after his prison term.At his ...
After about a year and a half of planning and fundraising, construction will begin next month on the Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence’s 18,000-square-foot teen center.Colby Wilson, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club, shared the news Monday during a report to the Lawrence ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Department for Children and Families has suffered a statewide computer system failure that is preventing the agency from paying welfare benefits, processing new applications or processing reports of abuse and neglect, according to reports on social media.Robert Choromanski, ...
Topeka ? A Shawnee County judge dealt a setback last week to efforts by the state pension system to reduce the retirement benefits of educators who take time off from their teaching jobs to work as leaders of their local teachers union.The ruling in favor of Nancy Fritz, a recently retired ...
Topeka ? Gov. Sam Brownback's office announced Monday that communications director Melika Willoughby will step down at the end of this week to take a job with a nonprofit conservative organization, the Forge Leadership Network.Willoughby, who has served as communications director since November ...
A jury on Monday convicted a Lawrence man of multiple counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, for repeatedly fondling a girl over the course of more than two years, starting when she was 11. More than 30 people — including the victim, who is now 16 — were in the courtroom ...
After neighbors’ concerns about the sale of alcohol delayed the decision, the Lawrence City Commission will consider plans to convert the former Jayhawk Bookstore into a bakery and restaurant. The property, located at 1420 Crescent Road, sits between the University Heights neighborhood and ...
UPDATED STORY (Aug. 15):Autopsies completed in triple killing: father believed to have shot ex-partner, then 3-year-old and himself• • •The 3-year-old girl and her mother found slain Sunday outside Lawrence are thought to have been killed by the child’s father, who then killed himself, ...
The parents of a child who has been missing since 1988 have filed a lawsuit that seeks to force Leavenworth County and the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Department to release investigation records from the case.Harold and Alberta Leach have filed the lawsuit in Leavenworth County District ...