A memorial service honoring the victims of William Quantrill’s deadly 1863 raid of Lawrence will take place Saturday morning as part of the city’s Civil War on the Western Frontier event. Community leaders will read the names of the victims of Quantrill’s Raid at a 10 a.m. event at the ...
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 316 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Story updated 5:39 p.m. Aug. 17, 2018: The body of 23-year-old Cameron Hooks was just one angle of testimony Friday illustrating the magnitude of violence in the Motel 6 murder case. It had 10 bullet holes in it, said a Lawrence police detective who viewed entry and exit wounds on Hooks' body ...
Several hundred northwest Lawrence homes may get a one-time increase of a few thousand dollars on their property tax bills. The reason? The multiyear debate over how to improve Queens Road, the crumbling road that is adjacent to about $100 million of new northwest Lawrence developments. As ...
TOPEKA – The Kansas economy recorded its 14th consecutive month of job growth in July, the Kansas Department of Labor said Friday. Preliminary numbers show that on a seasonally adjusted basis, Kansas gained 23,400 nonfarm jobs overall during that period, including 20,900 private-sector ...
The Queen is dead. Aretha Louise Franklin, a preacher’s daughter from Memphis who was broadly acclaimed the greatest singer of the last half-century — indeed, one of the greatest singers in the history of American song — died of pancreatic cancer Thursday at her home in Detroit, ...
Today, Aug. 17 Community Resource Clinic, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Meeting Room B, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Kaw Valley Bridge Club: Open Pairs, 12:30 p.m., 1025 N. Third St., Suite 120. Panorama 125, 2-3:30 p.m., KU Natural History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. Perry Lecompton ...
Grab your cameras and pick out just the right outfit. Sunflower season has arrived in the area. Hunsinger Farms Sunflower Patch opens Friday, according to owner George Hunsinger. Normally, Labor Day weekend is prime bloom time, but Hunsinger said his flowers are ready for visitors a little ...
Healy Young was doing the heavy lifting as she pulled suitcases from the back of the car and hauled them up to the fourth floor of Naismith Hall. That’s where her daughter Brittany Huang, 18, was unpacking. Mother and daughter had flown from New Jersey to Kansas City so Brittany could ...
There were five alleged victims in the Motel 6 murder case. Of the four who survived that night, it appears only one will be taking the stand to testify against the three men accused of shooting, threatening and trying to rob them. This wasn’t what prosecutors wanted. One victim was ...
Following are real estate transfers filed at the Douglas County Clerk’s Office from Aug. 7 through Aug. 13: Tuesday, Aug. 7 Free State Properties, Inc. to David Kasten and Sara Lechtenberg-Kasten, 1813 Indiana St., Lawrence. Jeffrey Haney and Jonni Haney and Barbara Dark to Kevin Dark and, ...
A severe thunderstorm warning issued for Douglas County expired at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, but a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 11 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. A watch means that the potential exists for the development of severe thunderstorms.
As University of Kansas students arrive on campus for the fall semester this week and start classes on Monday, Lawrence police will have extra officers out looking for impaired drivers. Their campaign — called “You Drink. You Drive. You Lose.” — kicked off Thursday and will run ...
An official canvass of primary election ballots in Douglas County on Thursday gave Gov. Jeff Colyer a net gain of 20 votes in the Republican gubernatorial primary, a small consolation after he conceded the race two days earlier. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said after the canvass that 66 ...
News and notes from around town: • I had a great crowd come out to Perkins Restaurant earlier this week to ask me a variety of questions as part of a Town Talk Live event. One of the top questions: What is being built at 23rd and O’Connell Drive next to Tractor Supply? Indeed, there are ...
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. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday and includes 298 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
Updated story - More witnesses drop out of state’s lineup in Motel 6 murder case; shooting victim takes Fifth at last moment Traffic cameras show the Motel 6 murder suspects’ dark-colored Pontiac Grand Prix coming into Lawrence from Kansas City on the Kansas Turnpike. About 45 minutes ...
Two years after opening its doors, the HERE apartment complex can finally lease all of its units. When it opened in August 2016, the seven-floor, 624-bedroom apartment and retail complex at 1111 Indiana St. was not permitted to lease 75 of its bedrooms because of a parking shortage in its ...
The hippies arrived promptly at 10 a.m., even though 49 years ago most of them wouldn’t have begun partying until 10 p.m. Wearing tie-dyed shirts and headbands, they dressed Wednesday like the “flower children” they once were as they celebrated the 49th anniversary of the legendary ...
University of Kansas police say they now know the identity of a man who was allegedly driving around campus committing lewd acts this week. The suspect — who has no affiliation with KU — has been identified and served in person by law enforcement officers with a notice to appear in ...