A man who was convicted of aggravated battery following a drunk-driving incident that injured a person last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison, suspended to 18 months of probation. Kody Rothfus, 34, pleaded no contest on March 6 to one count of aggravated battery while ...
After a storm caused a tree to fall onto the roof of the Homeless Resource Center near downtown Lawrence, the center's executive director said Tuesday that the building was not damaged. The storm brought heavy rain — up to 3 inches in the span of six hours — and strong winds across Douglas ...
Parts of two Lawrence neighborhoods are scheduled for sidewalk repairs in 2026 as part of the city's ongoing effort to bring its infrastructure into compliance with ADA accessibility standards. The city's ADA Right of Way Transition Program will be targeting areas in the Sunset Hill and ...
City recreation trails behind Sports Pavilion Lawrence will be closed for a while to repair damage caused by recent storms, Lawrence Parks and Recreation said on its social media pages this week. The department said the trails that extend to East 1000 Road have suffered "erosion, mud-covered ...
Updated at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 A transgender Lawrence woman on Friday filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas after it invalidated her driver's license under a state law known as SB 244. The woman, Jamie Michelle Miller, born in 1971, underwent irreversible genital reassignment ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday vetoed a bill adopted by the Kansas Legislature to curtail rising property taxes by placing unprecedented restrictions on the ability of cities and counties to increase spending. House and Senate Republicans secured passage of House Bill 2043 at ...
