Thanks to the efforts of schools, churches and a business, Eudora now has a place for students and families to get new and gently used clothes free of charge. The new clothing closet, known as the Bird's Nest, opened Tuesday in the Eudora school district’s West Resource Center, 1310 ...
Firefighters responded to two minor residential fires in Lawrence on Friday evening and Saturday morning. At about 9:15 p.m. Friday, fire crews and paramedics were called to a reported structure fire at 2700 Stratford Road, according to a news release from city spokesman Porter Arneill. ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday and includes 179 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Today, Feb. 16 Teen Zone Super Smash Brothers Tournament, 1-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. CSA Meet and Greet and LPL Seed Library Launch, 3-5 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Chess Club for ages 5-18, 4-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont ...
A Lawrence mother claimed the engine was running and the heat was on when she left her young children in the backseat of her car to hang out at a bar for a couple of hours during the recent polar vortex. But Lawrence police said the part of her story about leaving the heat on didn’t add up, ...
Heavy snowfall fell at times on the University of Kansas campus Friday as a winter weather system moved through the Lawrence area. The National Weather Service had predicted total accumulation of 3 to 5 inches. Photos by Ashley Hocking/Lawrence Journal-World
In early January, when the McFadden Group LLC sent out notices for the 2018 tax season, the tax preparer asked its clients for all of their itemized deduction information — even though it wasn't clear whether they would be able to use it. That will depend on how things turn out with a bill ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday and includes 189 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
TOPEKA — Kansas was "hoodwinked" into hiring a private company to build a new prison based on a promise that the new lockup would require significantly less staff and the savings could be used to pay for the project, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday. Kelly's comment during an ...
Two Lawrence men were arrested this week on suspicion of kidnapping and other crimes, including allegedly assaulting a man with a hammer and a torch last fall. Jason V. Spaniol, 41, and Sean P. McCawley, 42, were booked Thursday into the Douglas County Jail, where both were held on $75,000 ...
The United Way of Douglas County has hired Jeffrey Cornish as its new president and CEO, according to an agency news release. Cornish will begin work March 9. As the Journal-World recently reported, he was most recently the executive director of the Shanta Foundation in Durango, Colo., for ...
The basement of the Ernst & Son Hardware building in downtown long had the reputation as a massive storage vault, housing everything from covered wagon parts to things that weren't even useful anymore. Well, that big storage space has helped seal a deal for new retail life at the building. ...
Story last updated at 8:43 p.m. Friday Administrators at Lawrence High School confiscated a Taser from a student after it discharged on school property Thursday morning, district spokeswoman Julie Boyle said in an email to media Friday afternoon. In a news release sent at 12:21 p.m. Friday, ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas House has rejected a measure that would extend out the time it would take to fully fund the state's obligations to current and future retirees. The Wichita Eagle reports that the House voted down the pension refinancing measure 36-87 on Thursday. Gov. Laura Kelly put ...
A Lawrence man was arrested this week after being charged with a sex crime he allegedly committed in 2017. Matthew Charles Hart, 40, was arrested Thursday in connection with the case, jail records indicate. A charge of aggravated criminal sodomy, a felony, was filed against him in November in ...
Story last updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday Friday’s snow was blamed for more than 20 wrecks in Douglas County, none of which involved major injuries, according to law enforcement agencies. After heavy snow began falling around 8:30 a.m., the Lawrence Police Department responded to 17 accidents ...
TOPEKA — Kansas has terminated grants to two nonprofit agencies for services for troubled families and plans to renegotiate the grant terms to four agencies for services for foster children, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday. The moves made by Kelly's interim leader at the ...
Today, Feb. 15 AARP Driver Safety, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Library Storytime (ages 3 & up), 10:30-11:15 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Community Resource Clinic, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The Douglas ...
At this weekend's Lawrence Home Show, you can fight off the winter blues by getting some ideas for spring landscaping and home improvement projects. For homeowners of all ages, the show will be full of inspiration for all kinds of projects, from the front yard to the back door, said Bobbie ...
Updated 6:50 a.m. Check back as other closings and cancellations are added to this list. Have a closing, cancellation or postponement to report? Please email it to closings@ljworld.com. - Lawrence Public Schools, USD 497, will be closed, and all after-school activities are canceled. - ...
