When the Lawrence Public Library installs its new outdoor stage next year, Brad Allen wants it to be a place for creativity – not a place for complications. “The minute you need a sound technician to do storytime, it complicates storytime,” said Allen, the library’s executive director ...
Collision Leaders of Lawrence donated over $1,000 worth of school supplies to Sunflower Elementary School. Several employees from the auto body and repair shop stopped by Sunflower Elementary on Wednesday afternoon to donate boxes of paper as well as backpacks with pencils, notebooks, ...
A former murder defendant was ordered on Wednesday to stand trial for robbery and aggravated burglary. Julius Beasley was arrested on suspicion of the two felonies in March, less than three weeks after the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office dropped a murder charge against him. He has ...
Updated at 3:57 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2 Anyone who has visited the new Judicial and Law Enforcement Center more than once has likely heard about — or personally experienced — frustrations with the lone elevator available to the public. The county's courtrooms are located in what's called ...
A famed team of horses – the Budweiser Clydesdales – are returning to Lawrence next week for two occasions. The Budweiser Clydesdales are a famous team of large Clydesdale horses used in promotional appearances and advertising for Budweiser. The horses typically travel as a hitch, or ...
Voters this fall won't just be asked whether to raise Lawrence's transit sales tax from 0.2% to 0.3%, but also whether to keep it in place through 2037. That's what city staff shared this week about what the sales tax ballot question will ask. As the Journal-World reported, the Lawrence City ...
