Douglas County commissioners allocated funding to 22 local heritage conservation projects on Wednesday spanning Indigenous history, ecological restoration and community arts. This year, there were 42 applications for 2026 Natural and Cultural Heritage Grants with the requested funding ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday that she had apologized to a fellow justice for comments she made during a speech at the University of Kansas last week. Sotomayor told The New York Times and other media outlets on Wednesday that she had apologized to Justice Brett M. ...
AUSTIN, Texas — The security guard at Camp Mystic the night of last year's deadly flood acknowledged Wednesday that if a general evacuation order came early in the storm, lives could've been saved. Glenn Juenke, who helped move some girls to a two-story building before getting trapped ...
WASHINGTON — The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, broke the U.S. record Wednesday for the longest post-Vietnam War deployment, a nearly 10-month span that saw it take part in both the military raid in Venezuela and the Iran war. The ship's 295th day at sea surpassed ...
Two Kansas lawmakers are requesting further input from Haskell Indian Nations University faculty and staff to better shape proposed legislation that would create new, independent governance for the school. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran and U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann — both Republicans — announced in a ...
Failing to register as a violent offender in Kansas is a serious offense, and on Wednesday a convicted felon in Douglas County discovered just how serious. Devontae Deshon Rae Torres, who was convicted in 2022 of siccing a pit bull on a man, was ordered to stand trial on two counts of ...
