The University of Kansas will be charging less for its basic food and housing arrangement in the next academic year — and it will be Kansas' only public university to lower that rate. At a meeting Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved all six Kansas public universities' new food ...
A planned expansion of the Douglas County Jail is expected to cost nearly $30 million, and construction could begin as early as March, county leaders learned Wednesday. Representatives for Turner Construction, the construction manager for the project, told the Douglas County Commission during ...
Evidence wrapped up Wednesday in a Lawrence shooting trial that has been, at times, a bit heated since it began Dec. 9. Judge James McCabria had readied a video conference in another courtroom if the defendant, Tommy May, was unable to heed the court’s orders not to talk about certain ...
The University of Kansas will name its new integrated science building after its previous chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little. At a meeting Wednesday night, the Kansas Board of Regents approved Chancellor Douglas Girod's request to name the building after KU's 17th chancellor. It will be called ...
DETROIT — The Justice Department announced a crackdown Wednesday aimed at driving down violent crime in seven of the nation’s most violent cities. Attorney General William Barr released details of the initiative known as Operation Relentless Pursuit at a news conference in Detroit ...
A Lawrence man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with an Aug. 20 accident that killed a 24-year-old woman. Eric L. Spaeth, 43, was arrested Friday and charged Monday in Douglas County District Court, records indicate. He faces a charge of second-degree murder, a ...
Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel is preparing to withdraw his not-guilty plea in a federal fraud case. Fritzel and his bookkeeper, Keela Lam, then 52 and 46 respectively, were indicted in June 2018 on charges of scheming to collect more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from the City ...
TOPEKA — Kris Kobach's successor as Kansas secretary of state says his staff found an unsecured gun in a file cabinet after taking over the office. The discovery of the .45-caliber pistol in January was mentioned in a timeline that Secretary of State Scott Schwab's aides produced as they ...
Although a psychologist had written the words in her report on a Lawrence murder defendant, attorney Carl Cornwell said a “battered woman” defense did not occur to him. Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, now 25, is serving a sentence of 50 years to life for the 2014 murder of Harold “Hal” Sasko. ...
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. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 165 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
WICHITA — Kansas may have to help pay workers at a company that makes fuselages for the grounded Boeing 737 Max if the planes don't return to the sky soon, Gov. Laura Kelly said. Kelly said she talked with Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems CEO Tom Gentile on Tuesday, one day after Boeing ...
City leaders have indicated they would like to commit to running on all renewable energy in the coming years. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission received a recommendation from the Sustainability Advisory Board to adopt a policy committing to 100% renewable energy for ...
The Lawrence Public Library board voted to eliminate fines for overdue books and other media beginning next year, but not before hearing concerns from some residents. As part of its meeting Tuesday, the library Board of Trustees voted unanimously to eliminate late fines from the library’s ...
Sarah Gonzales-McLinn, now 25, said Tuesday that she never “wanted her story told,” as her trial attorney had said. “I was so embarrassed,” she testified from the witness stand, for the first time in the nearly six-year span of her case. “... Who would’ve wanted to go through ...
Topeka — Some LGBTQ Kansans who wanted to raise children with a partner before they could legally marry have been denied parental rights after splitting up with the biological mothers. The Kansas Supreme Court is being asked in a pair of cases to change that. The court heard arguments in two ...
If entering the J.Lynn Bridal store in downtown Lawrence causes you to feel a bit like a hustler or a shark, don’t be alarmed (although I wouldn’t recommend writing those thoughts into the wedding vows.) The building at 731 Massachusetts St. was a pool hall for almost 30 years, after all. ...
Story updated at 8:12 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019: Taking the stand at his own trial, defendant Tommy May said he did shoot two people at his apartment in July 2018 — but that one of those shootings was accidental and the other one was in self-defense. Tuesday afternoon in Douglas County ...
Douglas County officials will soon learn how much the planned expansion of the Douglas County Jail will cost. The Douglas County Commission will receive an update on the expansion plans during its work session at 4 p.m. Wednesday. County staff is expected to present an estimated cost for 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. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 149 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and ...
The controversial Confucius Institute will close in January of 2020, according to an email distributed Monday night to faculty and staff from University of Kansas interim Provost Carl Lejuez. KU will close its institute because of a 2018 law that restricts Department of Defense funds to ...
